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
Date Published: 1974 to 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Richard Adams was a "late bloomer" English novelist and writer, best known for his best-selling work of children’s fiction, Watership Down and in addition to the Carnegie Medal, Adams won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the California Young..... More
Albany: Albany Argus, NY. Place Published: Albany Publisher: Albany Argus, NY Date Published: 1838 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding • #1) January 5 - p. 2, c. 4 – “TO THE LEGISLATURE” – Letter from Gov. W.L. Marcy stating the territory of this state (New York) has been invaded..... More
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
Date Published: 1926-1948 Binding: The author, Douglas W. Ashby, was born in 1898 in Leicester, England. His father died when he was 6. His grandfather had a shoe and boot factory. In the First World War, Ashby served as a clerk in the Army Service Corps at Darby. He..... More
Date Published: 1888-1942 Binding: No binding & hard cover 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..... More
Date Published: 1895 to 1910 Binding: No binding Austin Alfred was an English critic, novelist and political journalist and appointed UK Poet Laureate in 1896. "He was included in a famous anthology of bad poetry, but the kind view is that at his best he was ‘a true but not..... 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: 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
Date Published: 1883-1897 Binding: Arlo Bates was an American author, educator and newspaperman. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow..... 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: 1915 to 1929 Binding: No binding Sir Francis Robert Benson was an English actor-manager. He founded his own company in 1883 with an emphasis on Shakespeare's plays. From 1886 to 1916 (with a few gaps), he managed the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean Festival. He was knighted following a performance of..... More
Regina. Place Published: Regina Date Published: 1979 to 1981 Binding: No binding Allan Blakeney Collection consists of 7 items dating from 1979 to 1981, specifically, four typed letters on Saskatchewan Office of Premier signed, two of the same color photographs signed and 1 colour printed portrait autopen signed. All in..... More
Boston: Boston Weekly Messenger. Place Published: Boston Publisher: Boston Weekly Messenger Date Published: 1813 to 1815 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding War of 1812 - 39 issues from The Weekly Messenger, Boston, Massachusetts newspapers About 60% with some written content descriptions, virtually all with some War of 1812 related..... More
Date Published: 1908 to 1913 Binding: No binding Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of science and religion, and an historian of philosophy. He was a professor of history of modern philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, and an elected a member of Academy of..... More
London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd. Place Published: London Publisher: G. Bell & Sons Ltd Date Published: 1933 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & hard cover The Universe of Light. London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1933. Greenish blue cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket. 283 pages with 26..... More
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
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: 1868 to 1911 Binding: No binding John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Lorne collection includes 26 items dating from 1868 to 1911 specifically, 7 holograph letters, 2 holograph ephemera and 17 Albumen Photo Cards (all CVD’s except one signed Cabinet Card) 7 Holograph letters; #1) 1878..... 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: [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