Date Published: 1855 Binding: No binding Maria Abdy was an English poet published Poetry (1834) and seven subsequent volumes, the last appearing in 1862. She contributed to the New Monthly Magazine and the Metropolitan Magazine and had over eighty contributions to the Annuals. Much of the verse is pedestrian but..... More
Leicester, UK: Jane Adams. Place Published: Leicester, UK Publisher: Jane Adams Date Published: 1997 Binding: No binding Jane Adams is a British writer of psychological thrillers, and has published more than thirty novels. Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995 and received an..... More
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
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
![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&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: ND Binding: No binding Mary Hunter Austin was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist, conservationist, and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights and culture. • Half title of Isidro (a 1905 romance of Mission days), signed, n.d. On consignment with..... 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: 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
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1975 to 1982 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover Sheila Ballantyne was an American educator, novelist and short story writer who was well known for her feminist-themed books, including the novel Imaginary Crimes. Her two novels, Norma Jean the Termite Queen..... More
Date Published: 1971 Binding: No binding Pat Barker is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, The Observer named the Regeneration Trilogy as..... More
Date Published: 1907 or 1917 Binding: No binding Marie Belloc-Lowndes was an English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on..... 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: 1936 Binding: No binding Phyllis Bentley, was an English novelist who wrote regional novels of life in West Riding. • ALS to Mr. Roth, 2 November 1936, on The Drake Hotel Chicago letterhead about her giving a lecture on 11 November 1936 in Birmingham. She suggests what the..... More
![Item #8665 Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] collection. Karen BLIXEN, aka Isak Dinesen](https://ldrb-ca.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8665_01_LR.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677706712)
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: 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