Date Published: 1963 to 1964 Binding: No binding Sir Harold [Mario Mitchell] Acton was a British writer, aesthete, and scholar wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography. Born near Florence to a prominent Anglo-Italian family, he was educated at Eton College and Oxford. After serving as an RAF liaison officer in the..... 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
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: 1888 to 1892 Binding: No binding & hard cover Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist, best known for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), in which a Boston gentleman is placed in a trance in 1887, awakens in the year 2000, and is..... 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: 1879 to 1910 Binding: No binding & hard cover 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..... 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: 1936 to 1962 Binding: No binding & hard cover Joyce Cary was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist with a place in three literatures (English, Irish, Nigerian) His most well-known book was The Horse's Mouth. He developed a trilogy form in which each volume is narrated by one of..... More
Date Published: 1915 to 1980Agatha Christie collection combined with Heron Carvic collection 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..... More
Date Published: 1918 to [1926] Binding: No binding Joseph Conrad and "The book "NOSTROMO" was first published in 1904 after nearly three years of intensive writing inspired by actual events occurring a quarter of a century earlier. Perhaps had the original events which stimulated Conrad to write his monumental tome..... More
Date Published: 1831 to 1872 Binding: No binding & hard cover George Cruikshank was a celebrated British caricaturist, book illustrator, and friend of Charles Dickens. The collection consists of 5 items dating from 1831 to 1872, specifically a manuscript, 3 books formerly owned by Cruikshank and a carte-de-visite, 1 Manuscript..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1950 Binding: Trained as a medical doctor at Cambridge University, Warwick Deeping served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. He abandoned medicine and became a full-time author. Seven of his novels were best-sellers, notably Sorrell and Son. During his career he..... 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 to 1943 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & hard cover This collection includes four 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..... 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
Halifax: Milner & Sowerby. Place Published: Halifax Publisher: Milner & Sowerby Date Published: 1859 Edition: Later edition Binding: Hard Cover SCARCE 1859 EDITION OF THREE OF EDGEWORTH'S STORIES Later UK edition. 5 x 3 inces, frontis, 6, [7]-154pp. (6pp ads) original soiled red cloth with elaborate gilt type on spine..... 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: 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: 1960 to 1976 Binding: No binding William Gerhardi, later 1971, Gerhardie, was an Anglo-Russian playwright and novelist. At the beginning of his career, he was the toast of literary London and won praise from Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and other notable authors. The reaction of the..... More
Date Published: 1958 to 1965 Binding: No binding Étienne Gilson was a French Catholic philosopher, scholar, and an internationally renowned historian of ideas. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes, yet also philosophized in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, although he did not consider..... More
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Date Published: 1902 to 2009 Binding: Hard & Soft cover GLYN HAD TREMENDOUS INFLUENCE ON EARLY 20TH-CENTURY POPULAR CULTURE 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 in romantic..... 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: No binding & hard cover 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 35..... More