Montreal. Place Published: Montreal Date Published: 1730 to 1837 Binding: A RARE AND IMPORTANT EARLY QUEBEC LEGAL COLLECTION OF 3,560 DOCUMENTS The Honorable Judge James Reid was born in Scotland and came to Canada around 1788. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada in 1794 and in..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1869 to 1908 Binding: No binding & hard cover Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie was an English novelist and essayist. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), a custodian of his literary estate, and a step aunt of Virginia..... 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
Date Published: 1953 to 1962 Binding: No binding & soft cover Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of principal exponents of the nouveau roman movement, which emerged in France in the 1950s. Robbe-Grillet’s typical Möbius-strip narratives are intended to replicate the experiences of memory and..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1913 to 1975 Binding: No binding & hard cover Cecil Roberts was a prolific English journalist, editor, poet, dramatist, and novelist. During World War II, he worked in the USA for the British government in the war effort. He lived among..... More
Date Published: 1892 to 1930 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts Known as the Father of Canadian Poetry, Charles G.D. Roberts was a poet and prose writer who inspired creativity in other poets of his generation, among them Bliss Carman (his cousin), Archibald Lampman and..... More
Date Published: 1847-1861 Binding: No binding EARLY HISTORIC 1847-1853 NIAGARA FALLS & CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE This Early Niagara Falls Suspension & Clifton Suspension Bridge Archive / Collection of 15 items enables one to follow the evolution of some events along the NFSB & CSB growth and history during the 1847-53..... More
Date Published: 1904 to 1955 Binding: No binding & soft cover Jules Romains (né Louis Henri Jean Farigoule), was a French poet, novelist, and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature sixteen times. Sinclair Lewis called him one of..... More
Date Published: 1887 to 1938 Binding: No binding & hard cover RUSS WAS A POPULAR FIGURE THAT PERFORMED DRAMATIC RECITALS 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..... More
Date Published: 1876-1895 Binding: SALA WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENCIAL BRITISH 19TH CENTURY JOURNALISTS George Augustus Henry Sala was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the Illustrated London News as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for The Daily Telegraph..... More
Date Published: 1937 to 1966 Binding: No binding & hard cover INTERESTING EDITH SITWELL COLLECTION Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic..... More
Date Published: 1867 to 1890 Binding: No binding & hard cover Samuel Smiles was a Scottish non-fiction author and a government reformer. His best known work, Self-Help, combined Victorian morality with sound free market ideas into moral tales, showing the benefits of thrift, hard work, education, perseverance, and character. He..... More
Date Published: 1954 to 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sir Stephen Spender was an English poet, novelist, editor and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of..... More
Date Published: 1939 to 1953 Binding: No binding & hard cover JAN STRUTHER WAS A BRITISH AUTHOR, POET, & RADIO PERONALITY The collection contains 11 items dating from 1939 to 1953, specifically, 1 signed letter, 5 Struther signed books, 3 photos, 1 cigarette card and 1 poster. Jan Struther (Joyce..... More
Date Published: 1919 to 1949 Binding: No binding & hard cover SWINNERTON WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF H.G. WELLS 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 14 items dating from 1919..... More
Date Published: 1922 to 1939 Binding: No binding & hard cover 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..... 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: TAYLOR IS WIDELY ACCREDITED WITH WRITING THE FIRST AMERICAN GAY NOVEL Bayard Taylor 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..... More
Date Published: 1936-[1950s] Binding: No binding MORE THAN HALF OF THE COLLECTION IS COMPRISED OF STORIES WRITTEN BY TOLAND John Willard Toland was an American writer and historian, best known for his best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for his history of World..... More
Date Published: 1925-1969 Binding: No binding & hard cover Louis Untermeyerwas an American poet, anthologist, critic, editor and translator of more than one hundred books for readers of all ages.. He is best remembered as a prolific anthologist whose collections have introduced students to contemporary American poetry since 1919. Untermeyer..... More
Date Published: 1935 to 1967 Binding: No binding & hard cover VAN DOREN WAS A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AMERICAN POET Mark Van Doren 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..... More
Date Published: 1892 to 1931 Binding: No binding & hard cover Henry Van Dyke was a Presbyterian clergyman, author, and professor was born on November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Van Dyke attended Princeton University and received his B.A. in 1873 and an M.A. in 1876. He then spent the..... More
Date Published: 1925 to 1942 Binding: Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and award-winning children’s book author winning the first Newberry Medal in 1922 for “The Story of Mankind”. In 1942 he was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina for his contribution to the Dutch resistance..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1842 to 1996 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection has original material pertaining to 21 American women poets, dating from 1842-1996 a total of 63 items, specifically 29 letters, 14 pieces of ephemera, 8 typescripts / manuscripts, 8 books..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1842 to 1982 Binding: No binding & hard cover 14 authors are represented in this collection including 33 items dating from 1842 to 1982 specifically 19 letters, 6 photos, 6 books, 1 note, and 1 brochure. BENCHLY, Nathaniel (American novelist, humorist..... More