Date Published: 1882 to 1967 Binding: No binding & hard cover Twenty Canadian authors are represented in this collection dating from 1882 to 1967, containing 59 items specifically, 24 letters, 21 cards and post cards, 3 photos, 6 books, 1 movie herald, 1 issue of a journal, 1 printing block..... More
Date Published: 1963 to 1964 Binding: No binding Sir Harold [Mario Mitchell] Acton was a British writer, aesthete, and scholar wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography. Born near Florence to a prominent Anglo-Italian family, he was educated at Eton College and Oxford. After serving as an RAF liaison officer in the..... More
[Buffalo, N.Y.]: Charles F. Adams. Place Published: [Buffalo, N.Y.] Publisher: Charles F. Adams Date Published: [1922] Binding: Hard Cover 7-1/4 x 5 inches. (3pp including frontispiece (portrait),i-77pp. Dark blue publishers cloth covers with worn corners and spine. Insides clean and very good condition. Scarce copy. Quotations or Thoughts of other..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1900 to 1930 Binding: No binding George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright. Ade is considered a humorist, satirist, and a moralist with keen observational skills, as well as and "one of the greatest writers of his..... More
![Item #7850 ALOUD - A Literary Quarterly- Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1987 [layout mock-up]....](https://ldrb-ca.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7850_01_LR.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1541864414)
[Toronto]: [Harbourfront Reading Series]. Place Published: [Toronto] Publisher: [Harbourfront Reading Series] Date Published: 1987 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: First Edition. 8pp., 16 x 12 inches. This is the promotional mock-up of ALOUD - A Literary Quarterly that was supposed to be an annual quarterly published by the Harbourfront Reading..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited Date Published: 1969 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover First edition. 281pp. Original Maroon cloth book, with gilt lettering on spine, with a small vertical stain on the right side of the front end paper, otherwise in..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1971 Binding: No binding & hard cover Faith Baldwin was a U.S. author of romance and fiction, publishing some 100 novels, often concentrating on women. The New York Times wrote that her books had "never a pretense at literary significance" and were popular because they "enabled..... More
Date Published: 1888 to 1892 Binding: No binding & hard cover Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist, best known for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), in which a Boston gentleman is placed in a trance in 1887, awakens in the year 2000, and is..... More
Date Published: 1915 to 1934 Binding: No binding Hilaire Belloc was one of the most controversial and accomplished men of letters of early twentieth-century England. He was an Anglo-French Catholic critic, historian, and satirist. Belloc wrote over 150 books, the subjects ranging from warfare to poetry to the many current..... More
Date Published: 1942 to 1949 Binding: No binding Sally Benson was an American screenwriter and short story author, best known for her semi-autobiographical stories collected including the creator of Judy Graves, the awkward, ungainly yet curiously appealing adolescent heroine of the “Junior Miss” stories in The New Yorker and “Meet..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1934 Binding: No binding & hard cover Ellis Parker Butler was a prolific American humorist, short story writer, and poet, best known for his story Pigs Is Pigs. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. The collection..... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1931 Binding: No binding Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE, usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Caine's popularity during his..... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1979 Binding: No binding Erskine Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre about social problems in the southern United States. Caldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 short stories, twelve nonfiction collections, two..... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1963 Binding: Gladys Hasty Carroll was an American novelist. Carroll believed that the history of common folk mattered most and her works (fiction and non-fiction) most presented their stories about the rural Maine of her childhood. Carroll earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her 1933..... More
Date Published: 1936 to 1962 Binding: No binding & hard cover Joyce Cary was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist with a place in three literatures (English, Irish, Nigerian) His most well-known book was The Horse's Mouth. He developed a trilogy form in which each volume is narrated by one of..... More
Date Published: 1927 to 1964 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection contains 13 items dating from 1927 to 1964, specifically 3 letters, 2 books, and 1 souvenir typescript, 3 photos, and 4 cards/notes. A.J. Cronin was a Scottish novelist and physician. During World War I, he served as..... More
Date Published: 1831 to 1872 Binding: No binding & hard cover George Cruikshank was a celebrated British caricaturist, book illustrator, and friend of Charles Dickens. The collection consists of 5 items dating from 1831 to 1872, specifically a manuscript, 3 books formerly owned by Cruikshank and a carte-de-visite, 1 Manuscript..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1950 Binding: No binding & hard cover Trained as a medical doctor at Cambridge University, Warwick Deeping served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. He abandoned medicine and became a full-time author. Seven of his novels were best-sellers, notably Sorrell and Son..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1965 to 1999 Binding: No binding & hard cover Margaret Drabble is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. She was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008. In 2011, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English..... More
Date Published: 1977 to 1963 Binding: No binding & hard cover Daphne du Maurier collection pertaining to two books: her novel, The Glass-Blowers (published 1963); and Myself When Young (published 1977). The collection consists of 8 items dating from 1977 to 1963, specifically; • Novel The Glass-Blowers 1 manuscript notebook..... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1975 Binding: No binding Will Durant was American writer, historian and philosopher, best known for his mammoth work The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant and won a Pulitzer Prize for this work. He was earlier noted for The..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1888 to [1900] Binding: No binding & hard cover Edgar Fawcett was a prolific American novelist, essayist, and poet. His best-known novels were satirical studies of New York high society. Fawcett also wrote numerous works for children. Collection contains 6 items..... More
Date Published: 1960 to 1976 Binding: No binding William Gerhardi, later 1971, Gerhardie, was an Anglo-Russian playwright and novelist. At the beginning of his career, he was the toast of literary London and won praise from Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and other notable authors. The reaction of the..... More
![Item #7893 Elinor Glyn Books & Ephemera collection [168 items]. Elinor GLYN, née Sutherland](https://ldrb-ca.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7893.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1564688346)
Date Published: 1902 to 2009 Binding: Hard & Soft cover THE QUEEN OF ROMANCE FICTION, A HOLLYWOOD ICON OF THE 1920s Elinor Glyn was an English author, journalist and screen writer and best known for Three Weeks (1907) a steamy romance novel which was shocking for its time. She specialised..... More
Date Published: 1902 to 1936 Binding: No binding Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a prolific American author who idealized the American frontier, best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Old West. This is a unique and varied collection of archival documents which offers a vista into..... More