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[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
Date Published: 1879 - 1910 Binding: George Washington Cable was an American novelist and reformer being notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called “the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century,” as well... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1931 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 lifetime... 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: 1915 to 1980 Binding: No binding & hard cover 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 novels and in 20 of her short stories. In his 5... More
Date Published: 1895 to 1933 Binding: No binding & hard cover Margaret Deland was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement and frequently portrayed small-town life. In 1926 she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters... More
Date Published: 1905 - 1943 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: This mini collection includes only three items. Two are extremely scarce and important to any Lloyd C. Douglas or religious collection. There is a Douglas Typed Letter Signed (TLS) and his very first publication copyright 1905, More Than a Prophet... More
Date Published: 1935 to 1990 Binding: No binding & hard cover Walter D. Edmonds was an American novelist and author of children’s and historical novels, including his best-selling work, Drums Along the Mohawk in 1936. In 1942 he won a Newberry Medal for ''The Matchlock Gun,'' about a boy in... More
Date Published: 1897 to 1898 Binding: No binding This collection has 20 items in total with the primary dates of 1897 to 1898, specifically 9 Typed Letters Signed (TLS), 8 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS), 1 small booklet and 2 ephemera. Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) was the prolific author of approximately... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1912 Binding: Eugene Field, an American journalist, editor, poet, and best known for his children’s poetry and humorous essay. After his mother's death in 1856, he and his brother were sent to live with a cousin in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field attended several colleges but took... 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
Date Published: 1907 to 1933 Binding: John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. In 1921 he was elected as the first president of the PEN International literary club and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932... 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: 1864 to 1917 Binding: Edward Everett Hale American author, historian, editor, social reformer, and Unitarian minister. He was a long term member of the American Antiquarian Society. He is best remembered for his short story “The Man Without a Country.” Collection includes 33 items dating from 1864... More
Date Published: 1967 to 1993 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Joseph Heller was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His second novel, "Something Happened" published in 1974, spanning thirteen years after Catch-22, his best-known work. Something Happened has failed to achieve the renown of Catch-22 but... More
Date Published: 1902 to 1932 Binding: Robert Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, autobiographer, music critic and lyricist. The Garden of Allah (1904) a romance set in Northern Africa that sold nearly a million copies and was adapted for both stage and was made into... More
Date Published: 1983 to 2007 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Lawrence Hill (b1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, educator, and documentary writer. His epic novel, The Book of Negroes, tells the spell-binding story of a girl, Aminata Diallo, forcefully brought to South Carolina from West Africa at the time of... More
Date Published: 1874 to 1916 Binding: William Dean Howells nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, was a prolific realist novelist, literary critic (Atlantic Monthly), poet, and playwright. He was a close colleague and friend with many major American writers of the nineteenth century, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry... More
Date Published: 1913-1951 Binding: No binding & hard cover Rupert Hughes was an American novelist, composer, musicologist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer and film director. More than 50 movies were written and/or directed by Hughes or were based upon his stories and novels. He was also the uncle of Howard R.... More
Date Published: 1888-1929 Binding: Various bindings Jerome K. Jerome was an English author best known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. He had a number of occupations then including journalism and school teaching, and a number of disappointments with the rejections of many short stories and satires... More
New York: Lovell, Adam, Wesson printed by Lake Champlain Press. Place Published: New York Publisher: Lovell, Adam, Wesson printed by Lake Champlain Press Date Published: 1877 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover 1877 FIRST EDITION OF THIS LITERATURE CLASSIC IS QUITE SCARCE First edition, first printing, unrestored with ads. 7-5/8 x.... More
Date Published: 1977 to 2011 Binding: No binding & hard cover Dean Koontz is a best-selling American author in the genres of suspense, horror fiction, science fiction, thriller, and fantasy. He has also used approximately ten different pen names. His books have sold more than 450 million copies. Many of... More
New York: John Lane. Place Published: New York Publisher: John Lane Date Published: 1912-1940 Edition: 1st, American issue Binding: Hard Cover RARE SUNSHINE SKETCHES 1ST AMERICAN ISSUE WITH DUST JACKET & 31 OTHER ITEMS Collection contains 32 items in total dating from 1912 to 1908, including; 1 Sunshine Sketches 1912... More
Date Published: [1903] Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert Leighton unpublished typescript novel "Sir James Bridges" collection Robert Leighton (1858-1934) wrote many adventure stories for boys and was the first literary editor of the Daily Mail. His wife was Marie Connor Leighton (1865–1941) who wrote a large number of... More
Date Published: 1907 to 1927 Binding: No binding & hard cover William J. Locke was a British novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His works have been made into many motion pictures, the most recent of which was Ladies in Lavender (2004). The collection consists of 12 items dating from... More