Date Published: 1933-1981 Binding: J.B. Priestley was an English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster. He was one of England's last great writers. Priestley was a member of the last generation of freethinking British "sages" who contemplated both science and philosophy in their literary output. Priestley gained considerable fame as "the... More
Date Published: 1927 to 1953 Binding: No binding & hard cover The complete collection consist of 41 items dating form 1927 to 1953, specifically Rogers collection has 22 B&W photographs and the Croy collection has 19 items; 9 Typed Letters Signed (TLS), 1 notes signed and 1 unsigned, 3 envelopes... More
Philadelphia: M. Carey. Place Published: Philadelphia Publisher: M. Carey Date Published: 1821 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC BOOK 2 volumes, 6 7/8” 4 1/4”, Vol.1 290pp., Vol.2 321pp., full very worn leather with type on spines. Volume 1 with worm holes outside and... More
Date Published: 1902-1958 Binding: No binding & hard cover Collection of a total of 13 items dating from 1902 to 1958. Ernest Thompson Seton 8 items; • 8 Typed Letter Signed (TLS); [Thomas Hutchins Journal]. Greenwich, CT: Arthur H. Clark & Company. 8.5 x 11 inches typed pp., with light... More
Toronto: The Rose Publishing Company. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: The Rose Publishing Company Date Published: 1886 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover FIrst edition. 8.5 x 5.5 inches,. (5), [3]-135 pages, frontis of author, many b/w illustrations, text in two columns; brown cloth, beveled edges/gilt titles. Gilt decorate cover extremities... More
Date Published: 1919 to 1949 Binding: No binding & hard cover Frank Swinnerton was a prolific English novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist. He was a contemporary of H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett. The collection consists of 12 items dating from 1919 to 1949, specifically, 8 signed letters (6... More
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
London: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row. Place Published: London Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row Date Published: 1876 Edition: 3rd Edition Binding: Hard Cover 4 1/2” x 6 3/4”. viii, [9]-207p. including 3pp. appendix. Illustrated. Green cloth covers with black decorative double border and gold gilt seal in... More
London: Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Charles Knight. Place Published: London Publisher: Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Charles Knight Date Published: 1836 Edition: 1st, 2nd issue Binding: Hard Cover First edition, second printing. Page 326 printed with Appendix B thus only 351 total pages in the second 1836 printing. 4 x 6... More
London: T. Nelson & Sons. Place Published: London Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons. Date Published: 1886 Edition: Later edition Binding: Hard Cover 1 (frontis), [8], [9]-188pp. Rebacked with original spine and front end paper rejoined, new back end paper. Insides generally clean with a few pages with minor soilng. With... More
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 117 Washington Street. Place Published: Boston Publisher: Crosby and Nichols, 117 Washington Street. Date Published: 1862 Edition: 4th Edition Binding: Hard Cover 4 -1/4 x 6 3/4 inches , (6)[5]-240pp. Rebacked with original sunned spine and front and back embossed boards. New endpapers. Internally some spotting... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row. Place Published: London Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row Date Published: 1869 Edition: 1st, 1st issue Binding: Hard Cover 4 1/2” x 6 3/4”. viii, [9]-207p. including 3pp. appendix. Illustrated. Rebacked using original decorative Green elborately embossed cloth with gilt type on... More
Toronto: William Briggs. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: William Briggs Date Published: 1894 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover First Edition. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. (4),xxxvi, [37]-241pp. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with silver stamped floral design and title lettering, floral endpapers. Spine silver logo at bottom 1/2 worn off and spine... More
Boston: Hall and Whiting. Place Published: Boston Publisher: Hall and Whiting Date Published: 1881 Binding: Hard Cover 6-3/4 x 4-1/4 inches, (6), [7]-356, [357]-376 appendix) Rebacked, red cloth with gilt title and elaborate black decorations with very minor wrinkling of cloth on back cover, new endpapers and one illustration as... More
Date Published: 1925-1969 Binding: Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, editor and translator of more than one hundred books for readers of all ages.. He will be best remembered as the prolific anthologist whose collections have introduced students to contemporary American poetry since 1919. Untermeyer was... More
Date Published: 1935 to 1967 Binding: No binding & hard cover Van Doren, Mark was a 1940 Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, critic, and editor, was also a novelist, short story writer, playwright, scholar, and teacher (professor of English at Columbia University). This collection contains 13 items dating form 1935 to... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields,and Fields, Osgood, & Co. Place Published: Boston Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields,and Fields, Osgood, & Co. Date Published: 1874 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover First US edition. 6 x 4-1/2 inches. 292pp. Rebacked with original... More
Toronto: William Briggs. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: William Briggs Date Published: 1899 Binding: SCARCE PUBLISHED IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS First Edition. 5-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches; (6),[6}-252 pp; Publishers soiled and chipped green heavy paper wraps with green illustration and red lettering to front and spine. Inside is cracked with... More
Date Published: 1916 to 1968 Binding: William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, poet, novelist, biographer of presidents, a founding editor of the Book of the Month Club, “the Sage of Emporia”). He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 1947 White posthumously won his... More
Date Published: [1906] to 1944 Binding: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was of the most famous of modern French writers and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She wrote over 50 novels including Gigi (1944), and "Cheri" (1920) She was also a mime, an actress, and a journalist. Colette... More
