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 about Hallie Erminie Rives collection
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 about Kenilworth
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 about Dolly, The Young Widder Up To Felder’s
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 about Frank Swinnerton collection
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 about Booth Tarkington collection
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 about Bayard Taylor collection
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 about Afar in the Forest ; or Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Wilds of Canada
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 about The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer illustrative of the...
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 about In the Forest or Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of Canada
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 about Stories of the Canadian Forest or Little Mary and Her Nurse
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 about Afar in the Forest ; or Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Wilds of Canada
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 about Pearls and Pebbles; or Notes of an old Naturalist
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 about The Canadian Crusoes. A Tale Of The Rice Lake Plains
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 about Louis Untermeyer Collection
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 14 items dating form 1935 to... More about Mark Van Doren collection
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 about Doctor Ox, and other stories
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 about BONHOMME: French-Canadian Stories and Sketches
Date Published: 1930 to 1973 Binding: Alec Waugh was a British novelist and travel writer. He was the son of Arthur Waugh (author, literary critic, and publisher) and elder brother of Evelyn Waugh. Waugh was a successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout... More about Alec Waugh collection
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 about William Allen White collection
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 about Colette Willy collection