Date Published: 1971 to 1973 Binding: No binding Joy Adamson was an Austrian-born writer, author and naturalist in Kenya whose bestselling book, Born Free was pivotal in changing attitudes worldwide toward the value of preserving wildlife and habitat. This collection includes 6 items dating from 1971 to 1973 specifically, 1..... More
Date Published: 1992 & 1994 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & hard cover Dorothy Allison is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for..... 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
Toronto: Hawkshead Press & McClelland and Stewart. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: Hawkshead Press & McClelland and Stewart Date Published: 1961 to 2019 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard & Soft cover A collection of 4 books dating from 1961 to 2019, specifically, Atwood’s First book Double Persephone, The Handmaid’s Tale with..... 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: 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: 1966-1967 Binding: No binding Ursula Harvey Bloom was a British novelist, journalist, biographer and TV personality. She was a prolific author, writing over 500 books, an achievement that earned her recognition in the 1975 edition of Guinness World Records. Many of her novels were written under various pen..... More
Date Published: 1944 to 1987 Binding: No binding Kay Boyle was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and political activist. She was a member of the Lost Generation in the 1920s and 1930s, who battled fascism, Nazism, McCarthyism, and the Vietnam War. 4 ALS, 1 NS, 2 TLS, 1..... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 6 x 4-1/2 inches, on 12 Cavendish Road, St. John's Wood blue embossed type letterhead. Dated Feb[ruary] 16, [18]97. Enclosing a cheque for the amount due. Frances "Fanny" Whiteside Brough was a Paris-born British stage actress who came from a...... More
Date Published: 1876 Binding: No binding 6 x 4 inches. Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 8vo. Dated Torquay, May 12 [18]76. Agetoned paper in very good condition. Mentioning plays ["Queen Mary'} and referring to Tennyson. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts was a British philanthropist. Burdett-Coutts was widely known as "the richest heiress..... 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: ND Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Photo CDV, Older Woman in full view seated pose, seated at table with book. Photographer is Thos Charles, St. Catharines, Ontario Street, ON Canada. In business from 1879-1882? M Elizabeth Charles - Mrs Thomas Charles his wife took over the business, ?-1884-1888-... More
Date Published: [1955] to 1977 Binding: No binding Susan Cheever is a novelist, non-fiction author, journalist, literary historian, teacher, and biographer. Cheever was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. She graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University. Her father was a celebrated American novelist and short story writer. This collection contains..... More
London: Margaret Crewe. Place Published: London Publisher: Margaret Crewe Date Published: 1926 Binding: No binding Margaret Crewe signature on 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 inch envelope dated 1926. [accompanied by a letter from her secretary, J. Corbett and dated 1st July, 1926. Envelope is wrinkled on left side with the writing going..... More
Date Published: 1821 Binding: 4pp, 12 x 8 inches folded to 5-3/4 x 8 inched and affixed to larger paper and removed from an album. 2 pages of text in French. Dated Mar 11, 1821 Letter from Madame de Castéras Lady in Waiting to S.A. of the French Pringles..... 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
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press. Place Published: Boston Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press Date Published: 1881 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover QUITE RARE POETRY BOOK BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN WOMAN First edition. 3-1/2 x 5-3/8 inches. iv, (2), [3]-317pp. Worn original green cloth..... More
![Item #5041 Autographed Signed Letter (ASL) of Caroline Fry [Mrs. Caroline Wilson] hand written...](https://ldrb-ca.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5041_01_LR.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1434414385)
Date Published: 1839 Binding: No binding 9-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches. Autograph manuscript signed "Caroline Wilson." One page. dated February 7, 1839. Draft of a poem titled Ex Gx or EG...died aged 18 years. Signed in fountain pen. The letter is neatly sewn, at the left edge, to 1/2 inch album..... More
Toronto: William Briggs. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: William Briggs Date Published: 1905 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover First edition. 4-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches., 3 printed plates (Dufferin 3pp letter, Crawford manuscript example and tissue guarded portrait plate), (2), 309pp., original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and perimeter gilt..... 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: 1900 to 1964 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Helen Mason Grose was born and buried in Providence, Rhode Island, She was an artist and book illustrator. This collection is comprised of the remnants of Grose’s personal papers (circa 1900-1964). The archive has approximately 100 b&w photos, most of..... More
[Hanover, ON]: Self-published. Place Published: [Hanover, ON] Publisher: Self-published Date Published: [1947] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover First edition. 5-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches. (6),[7]-298pp. Red cloth covers with dull gilt on spine and front cover, sunned on bottom front cover 1/2 inch, otherwise very good condition. No dust jacket..... More
[St. John]: New Brunswick. Place Published: [St. John] Publisher: New Brunswick Date Published: 1868 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Manuscript signed document, four pages, flat 8 x 12-1/2 inches, folded to 8 x 6-1/4 inches, dated 14th January 1868. Appointing Herries, Farquhar & Co. (Sir Walter Rockcliff Farquhar and..... More