Date Published: 1844 to 1890 Binding: Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat. Taylor is widely accredited with writing the first American gay novel: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania. The collection contains 12 items dating from 1844 to... More
Date Published: 1874 to 1916 Binding: William Dean Howells nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, was a prolific realist novelist, literary critic (Atlantic Monthly), poet, and playwright. He was a close colleague and friend with many major American writers of the nineteenth century, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry... More
Date Published: 1818 to 1954 Binding: Greenland missionary work collection contains 4 items dating from 1818 to 1954 specifically 3 books and one ALS letter. 3 Books (1 ALS letter with one book) • James Montgomery. Greenland, and Other Poems. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1912 Binding: Eugene Field, an American journalist, editor, poet, and best known for his children’s poetry and humorous essay. After his mother's death in 1856, he and his brother were sent to live with a cousin in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field attended several colleges but took... More
Date Published: 1928 to 1987 Binding: Dorothy Livesay is considered one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets and the winner of two Governor General’s Awards (1944, 1947). Following the publication of Green Pitcher (1928) when she was only nineteen years of age, she published Signpost (1932). This was followed by twenty-two... More
Date Published: 1887-1920 Binding: No binding & soft cover Amy Lowell was an American poet critic, and woman of letters who became a powerful leader in the modernist poetry movement known as Imagism. She was posthumously was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. The collection consists of three... More
Date Published: 1930 to 1980 Binding: No binding & hard cover Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic, poet, editor and a social historian who went on to become a representative of the America’s ‘Lost Generation’ after the World War I. In 1939, he received the ‘Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize’..... More
Date Published: 1920 to 1938 Binding: Arthur Guiterman was an American poet of humorous verse, a co-founder of the Poetry Society of America 1910, President, Poetry Society of America, 1925-26 and an editor of Woman’s Home Companion and the Literary Digest. The collection contains 15 items dating from 1920... More
Date Published: 1922 to 1939 Binding: Genevieve Taggard was an American poet of thirteen poetry collections. The author of the biography The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930), she edited the anthologies May Days: An Anthology of Verse from Masses-Liberator (1925) and Circumference: Varieties of Metaphysical Verse, 1456-1928... More
Date Published: 1910 to 1958 Binding: No binding & hard cover Nancy Price was an English actress on stage and screen, poet, novelist, editor, essayist, and memoirist. She was one of the leading lights of the British theatre in the twentieth century. She began her stage career in 1899 and... More
Date Published: 1966 to 1979 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPIES OF POUND'S LATER WORKS Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early 'modernist' literature - that is, experimental literature written during the first part of the twentieth century. He... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1955 Binding: First Editions from 1933 to 1955. An interesting archive of five early titles in Spanish by the Cuban poet, translator, critic and scholar Eugenio Florit. 4 of 5 books inscribed to his friend and colleague, H. R. (Hoffman Reynolds) Hays, American poet, novelist... More
Date Published: 1934 to 1940 Binding: No binding & hard cover Martha Martin, born in 1875, in Montreal who later moved to New York City. She supported herself by her prolific pen, publishing ten volumes of poetry and one novel. Her poetry met the interests of others - one volume... More
Date Published: 1887 to 1938 Binding: No binding & hard cover Carolyn Ernestine Hale Russ of Boston, Mass. was an elocutionist, reader, and a popular figure that performed dramatic recitals during the late 1880s and 1890s. She was active with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her parents were Richard... More
Date Published: 1895 to 1933 Binding: No binding & hard cover Margaret Deland was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement and frequently portrayed small-town life. In 1926 she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters... More
