Date Published: [1884] & 1895 Binding: Hard Cover Grant Allen, (Canadian-English science writer and novelist). This mini-collection includes; 1) ALS to Mr. Chatto of Chatto & Windus, n.d. but 1883-4, re publication of his novel entitled Philistia. 2) ALS to Andrew Lang, 10 February 1895, telling Lang that he won’t agree... More about Grant Allen mini-collection includes Allen autographed signed letter and Allen's book with...

Date Published: 1888-1942 Binding:  Gertrude Atherton was a prominent and prolific American author. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. Atherton was an early feminist well acquainted with the plight of women. She... More about Gertrude Atherton Collection

Date Published: 1894 to 1921 Binding: No binding & hard cover John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor, and satirist. and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. The collection items date from 1894... More about John Kendrick Bangs collection

Date Published: 1844 to 1892 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & soft cover HISTORICAL & IMPORTANT EARLY ONTARIO FAMILY COLLECTION The collection includes 21 items, specifically, two holograph Ontario diaries by Alexander D. Bruce, one 61 page diary (March 1884-April 15, 1885) one 64 page diary (Apr. 10, 1886... More about George Bruce, Robert Bruce and Alexander Bruce collection of 2 holograph diaries and 19 other...

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 about Hall Caine Collection

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 about Gladys Hasty Carroll collection

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 about Agatha Christie collection combined with Heron Carvic collection

Date Published: 1889-1937 Binding:  Henry John Cody was a Canadian clergyman, politician and President of the University of Toronto from 1932 to 1945 and Chancellor from 1944 to 1947. Born in Embro, Ontario, he attended Galt Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. He was ordained a Church of... More about Rev. Henry John Cody of Toronto collection

Date Published: 1930 to 1980 Binding: No binding & hard cover Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic, poet, editor and a social historian who went on to become a representative of the America’s ‘Lost Generation’ after the World War I. In 1939, he received the ‘Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize’..... More about Malcolm Cowley collection

Date Published: 1917-1920 Binding:  A literary archive collection includes: 4 manuscript notebooks of poems and a few stories, written in pencil (approximately [410] pp. of written text) and two books, one signed. Circa 1917-20. Many drafts of poems are untitled, and some are crossed out. Approximately [410] pp. of... More about Norman Davey collection

Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep and Others, Port Folio. Place Published: Philadelphia Publisher: Bradford & Inskeep and Others, Port Folio Date Published: 1810-16 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding A fantastic collection of 19 Port Folio prints in very good+ to near fine condition from the Port Folio Magazine. Each B&w..... More about Port Folio War of 1812 Collection, 19 Engravings - 1810 to 1816 (American focus

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 about Lloyd Cassel Douglas Mini-collection

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 about Walter D. Edmonds collection