London: Richard Bentley. Place Published: London Publisher: Richard Bentley Date Published: 1852 Edition: 2nd Binding: Hard Cover Second UK edition. 2 volumes, 5-1/4 x 8 inhes. Original dark green cloth unrestored. Original tan endpapers in both volumes. Both volumes have a gilt embossed illustration on front covers, which depicts a...... More
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London: Richard Bentley. Place Published: London Publisher: Richard Bentley Date Published: 1852 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover First UK edition. 2 volumes, 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches, xx,[1]-293,[1],[2 ads]; [2 ads]; [4],[1]-294; [2 ads]. Original green cloth with gilt and blind embossed sunned spine and front cover, bumped corners, rebacked with..... More
Date Published: 1951 to 1952 Binding: No binding Charles Morgan was a British playwright, novelist and essayist, noted for his dedicated craftsmanship to English prose. He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1936 and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 to..... More
Date Published: 1948 to 1978 Binding: Collection includes 34 items dating from 1948 to 1978, specifically, 3 Edita Morris Inscribed books: Edita Morris to Franklyn Lenthall 10 ephemera items and other correspondence of 21 items to Franklyn Lenthall mini-archive. Edita Morris was a Swedish-American writer and political activist. Morris..... More
Date Published: 1694, 1955, 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Pierre Berton / Farley Mowat three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items. The three items are all personally connected to these two Canadian literary giants. Born less than a year apart, Berton and Mowat were passionate story tellers of..... More
Date Published: 1914 to 1944 Binding: Kathleen Norris was an American novelist, poet and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States. Collection contains 35 items dating from 1914 to 1944, specifically Three Autographed Letters Signed and 1..... More
Date Published: 1883 to 1908 Binding: No binding W.E. Norris was a prolific English novelist and writer of short stories. Son of the Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was born in London and educated at Eton College. He travelled abroad, abandoned the idea of joining the diplomatic service, qualified as..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1940 Binding: No binding E. Phillips Oppenheim was a best-selling English novelist who wrote approximately 100 novels and 40 anthologies of short stories. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have..... More
Date Published: 1897 to 1908 Binding: No binding & hard cover Lydia Ethel Farmer Painter (G.E.X. pseud.) was born on 14 April 1842 in Sandy Spring MM, Columbiana, Ohio, the daughter of James Farmer (1802-1891) and Meribah Butler Farmer (1805-1898). She was an American author, poet, traveler, and the owner..... More
London: Mark Gerson photographer. Place Published: London Publisher: Mark Gerson photographer Date Published: 1965 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding William Plomer Portrait by Mark Gerson. Silver gelatin black and white photograph, head and shoulders, looking into the camera, signed by Mark Gerson on the mount and inscribed 'London', with..... More
Date Published: 1936 to 1951 Binding: No binding & hard cover Emily Post was an American novelist, author, columnist, socialite, and an authority on etiquette. "Etiquette," she once said, "is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is the code of sportsmanship and of honor. It is ethics." More..... 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
Toronto: McLeod & Allen Publishers. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: McLeod & Allen Publishers Date Published: [1910] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover First edition, 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches. (6),332p. Dark green cloth, bright gilt titles, very good condition. c1910. A nice copy... More
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: 1894 to 1924 Binding: No binding & hard cover Hallie Erminie Rives was a best-selling novelist and wife of the American diplomat Post Wheeler. Rives was the recipient of several poems written in her honour. The collection consists of 9 items dating from 1894 to 1924 specifically, 4..... 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 First American edition. 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..... 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, 9 signed letters (7..... More
Date Published: 1909 to 1941 Binding: Booth Tarkington was an American novelist, dramatist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered America’s greatest living author. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William..... 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 15 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: 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
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