Date Published: 1920 to 1935 Binding: No binding & hard cover Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith was a British socialite, author, and wife of H.H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. There are 7 items dating from 1920 to 1935, specifically 6 letters and 1 book. 5..... More
![ALOUD - A Literary Quarterly- Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1987 [layout mock-up]. Margaret ...](/pictures/thumb/7850_01_LR.jpg?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: Hawkshead Press. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: Hawkshead Press Date Published: 1961 (to 2005) Binding: No binding & hard cover A collection of 6 items dating from 1961 to 2005, specifically, Atwood’s First book Double Persephone signed, Atwood letter signed, 3 other signed Atwood books and a colour photo. Atwood’s..... 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: 1935 to 1971 Binding: No binding & hard cover Enid Bagnold was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet and The Chalk Garden, a 1955 play. The collection is comprised of 11 items dating from 1935 to 1971, specifically 2 letters, 4..... 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
![Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] collection. Karen BLIXEN, aka Isak Dinesen](/pictures/thumb/8665_01_LR.jpg?v=1634408643)
Date Published: 1934 to 2019 Binding: No binding & hard cover Karen Blixen also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, was born at Rungstedlund, Denmark. In 1914 she came to Africa to marry her half cousin and carry out dairy farming in the then British colony of Kenya. Her..... 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, nonfiction 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
Date Published: 1915 to 1980 Binding: No binding & hard cover BOTH WRITERS HAVE HEROINES AS THE COMMON ELEMENT IN THIS COLLECTION The collections have a common element in the heroines of both these writers. Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster and amateur detective, appeared in 12 of Christie's crime..... 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
NP. Place Published: NP Date Published: ND Binding: Paper size: 5-3/8 x 7-1/2 inches Image size: 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches Unsigned bookplate for Mary E. Dignam Mary Ella Dignam (née Williams) (1857–1938) (Born Mary Ella Williams) was a Canadian painter, teacher, and art organizer best remembered as the founder..... 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
![Autographed Signed Letter (ASL) of Caroline Fry [Mrs. Caroline Wilson] hand written original...](/pictures/thumb/5041_01_LR.jpg?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
Date Published: 1906 to 1937 Binding: No binding & hard cover Zona Gale was American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and Pulitzer prize winner for drama in 1921. The collection consists of 13 items dating from 1906 to 1937 specifically, 6 letters, 3 books, an autographed note, 2 photographs..... 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 including tissue guarded portrait plate), 309pp., original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and perimeter gilt rules. New endpapers. Cover a little marked and a...... More
![Elinor Glyn Books & Ephemera collection [166 items]. Elinor GLYN, née Sutherland](/pictures/thumb/7893.jpg?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: 1936 to 1995 Binding: No binding & hard cover Rumer Godden was a poet, memoirist, an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction and children’s books. She was born in Sussex, but grew up in India, in Narayanganj. Many of her 60 books are set in..... 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