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Date Published: 1882 to 1967 Binding: No binding & hard cover Twenty Canadian authors are represented in this collection dating from 1882 to 1967, containing 59 items specifically, 24 letters, 21 cards and post cards, 3 photos, 6 books, 1 movie herald, 1 issue of a journal, 1 printing block..... More
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: 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
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1900 to 1930 Binding: No binding George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright. Ade is considered a humorist, satirist, and a moralist with keen observational skills, as well as and "one of the greatest writers of his..... More
Date Published: 1856 to 1904 Binding: No binding & hard cover Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, during which he published writers including Charles W. Chesnutt American writer, poet, critic, and editor of The..... More
Date Published: 1968 to 1990 Binding: No binding Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE was English and widely known as a comic novelist of life in mid to late 20th-century Britain, but his literary work covered many genres - poetry, essays, criticism, short stories, food and drink, anthologies, and several novels..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1867 to 1899 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet, orientalist, translator, and journalist, best known as the author of The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem in an elaborately Tennysonian blank verse that describes, through..... 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
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: [1865] Binding: No binding Sabine Baring-Gould was an Anglican priest, novelist, folk song collector, hymnist, and author of 'Onward Christian Soldier' and ‘Now the day is over’. He was regarded as one of the top ten novelists of his time, but wrote prolifically on his travels, religious matters..... More
Date Published: 1787 to 1811 Binding: No binding & hard cover Joel Barlow was a lawyer, diplomat, and Revolutionary War chaplain and pursued his writing ambitions after the war, joining the writers’ group known as the Hartford Wits. He was an ardent proponent of American democracy. Granted French citizenship, he..... More
Date Published: 1959 to 1992 Binding: No binding Leonard Baskin was an artist and the founder and publisher of the Gehenna Press in 1942, one of the first fine art presses in USA. Baskin's work is held by major museums worldwide. Baskin was the recipient of many awards and donors..... More
Date Published: 1923 to 1941 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Rex Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was lionized as the Victor Hugo of the North. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based..... 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: 1915 to 1934 Binding: No binding Hilaire Belloc was one of the most controversial and accomplished men of letters of early twentieth-century England. He was an Anglo-French Catholic critic, historian, and satirist. Belloc wrote over 150 books, the subjects ranging from warfare to poetry to the many current..... 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
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
![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
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1888 to [1991] Binding: No binding 5 Canadian politicians are represented in this collection of 13 item dating from 1888 to [1991], specifically, 3 letters, 6 photos, 1 pamphlet, 1 card, 1 statement and 1 signed envelope. Robert Laird Borden, (Canadian..... More
Date Published: 1882 to 1951 Binding: No binding & hard cover Archives of Dr. George Sandison Brock dating from 1882 to 1951, approximately 140 pp. with ephemera, and two related books. Most of the collection relates to Dr. George Sandison Brock, FRCPE, FRSE (1858-1949), a physician at the British Embassy..... More
Date Published: 1954 to 1972 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding This collection of a series letters and ephemera show a strong and long respected political and personal association with two leading Canadian Prime Ministers. Quite an interesting story being told with these letters to J.E. Brown over 18 years..... More
Date Published: circa 1890 to 1920 Binding: No binding William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer, orator and politician. At age 36, Bryan remains the youngest person in United States history to receive an electoral vote for president. Bryan gained fame as an orator, as he invented the national stumping..... More
Date Published: 1879 to 1912 Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in The Hawk Eye newspaper in Burlington, Iowa and he was well known figure in early Los Angeles. His writings were the source of..... More
Date Published: 1973, 1977, 1989 Binding: No binding & soft cover ohn Anthony Burgess Wilson who published under the name Anthony Burgess was an English novelist, critic, and man of letters whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine with, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre. Although Burgess was..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1934 Binding: No binding & hard cover Ellis Parker Butler was a prolific American humorist, short story writer, and poet, best known for his story Pigs Is Pigs. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. The collection..... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1931 Binding: No 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..... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1979 Binding: No binding Erskine Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre about social problems in the southern United States. Caldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 short stories, twelve nonfiction collections, two..... 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, 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
Date Published: 1922-1935 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sheldon Christian archives. 1922-1935. Approximately 1,800 pp. These extensive archives contain manuscripts and typescripts of Christian’s plays, short stories, news stories, poems, correspondence, diary entries, and ephemera. Much of the material concerns Christian’s academic life at Tufts College, his literary pursuits..... More
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
Date Published: 1927 to 1964 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection contains 13 items dating from 1927 to 1964, specifically 3 letters, 2 books, and 1 souvenir typescript, 3 photos, and 4 cards/notes. A.J. Cronin was a Scottish novelist and physician. During World War I, he served as..... 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: 1909 to 1912 Binding: 3-Ring Binder The William Telfair Daugherty collection contains 42 items dating from 1909 to 1912 specifically, approximately 40 letters, 2 postcards, and several pieces of ephemera written to his parents between 1909 and 1912 when Daughterty lived in Ann Arbor and attended the University..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1950 Binding: No binding & hard cover 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..... More
Date Published: 1938 to 1964 Binding: No binding Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. In addition to being the Governor of New York for three terms from 1943 to 1955, he was the Republican nominee for the Presidential elections in 1944 and 1948. The collection contains..... More
Date Published: 1869 to 1918 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection pertains to the last two kings of Portugal, Dom Carlos I (1863-1908) and his son, Manuel II (1889-1932), and to Teófilo Braga (1843-1924), poet, playwright, literary historian, politician and the leader of the Republican Provisional Government after..... More
Date Published: 1987 to 1991 Binding: No binding & soft cover Roddy Doyle (b1958) was an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He won in 1993 The Booker Prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world for his book Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. 1 Book: • The Commitments..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1965 to 1999 Binding: No binding & hard cover Margaret Drabble is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. She was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008. In 2011, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English..... 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
Date Published: c1870 to 1880 Binding: No binding Collection of 6 items circa 1870 to 1880 of 6 ephemera items; 1 albumen Cabinet Card, 3 albumen CVD's, Dufferin cut signature with long salutation and Ontario's Farewell to the Earl of Dufferin 1878 booklet. • 1 Cabinet Card circa 1876, 4-1/4..... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1975 Binding: No binding Will Durant was American writer, historian and philosopher, best known for his mammoth work The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant and won a Pulitzer Prize for this work. He was earlier noted for The..... More
London: British Governement. Place Published: London Publisher: British Governement Date Published: 1839 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Three (3) important and scarce Parliamentary Papers published between the nomination of Lord Durham as Governor General and High Commissioner to British North America after his resignation in September 1838; dealing with..... More
London: British Governement. Place Published: London Publisher: British Governement Date Published: 1838 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Disbound Five (5) important and scarce Parliamentary Papers published between the nomination of Lord Durham as Governor General and High Commissioner to British North America and just before his resignation in September 1838; dealing..... More
Date Published: 1961 to 1987 Binding: No binding Richard Eberhart was an American poet who was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1962 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930-1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930-1976. He was the..... More
Date Published: 1933 to 1955 Binding: First Editions from 1933 to 1955. An interesting archive of five early titles in Spanish by the Cuban poet, translator, critic and scholar Eugenio Florit. 4 of 5 books inscribed to his friend and colleague, H. R. (Hoffman Reynolds) Hays, American poet, novelist..... 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
![Item #7893 Elinor Glyn Books & Ephemera collection [168 items]. Elinor GLYN, née Sutherland](https://ldrb-ca.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7893.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1564688346)
Date Published: 1902 to 2009 Binding: Hard & Soft cover THE QUEEN OF ROMANCE FICTION, A HOLLYWOOD ICON OF THE 1920s 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..... More
Date Published: 1890 to 1898 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Edward Solon Goodhue letter collection contain 17 items dating from 1890 to 1892, specifically, 16 ALS (74 pp.) to Dr. Peter C. Meengs and a 4-page promotional leaflet promoting “The Poems of E.S. Goodhue” no date. Group of 16..... More
Date Published: 1902 to 1936 Binding: No binding Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a prolific American author who idealized the American frontier, best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Old West. This is a unique and varied collection of archival documents which offers a vista into..... More
[London}: Daily Telegraph prisoners of war exhibition, in the grounds of Clarence House (by gracious permission of H.M. The King). Place Published: [London} Publisher: Daily Telegraph prisoners of war exhibition, in the grounds of Clarence House (by gracious permission of H.M. The King) Date Published: 1934, 1937-8, 1943-5, 1947, and..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1964 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Helen Mason Grose was born and buried in Providence, Rhode Island, She was an artist and book illustrator. This collection is comprised of the remnants of Grose’s personal papers (circa 1900-1964). The archive has approximately 100 b&w photos, most of..... More
Date Published: 1886 to 1911 Binding: No binding & hard cover George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. Weedon Grossmith was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody..... 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 36..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1922 Binding: No binding & hard cover Henry Sydnor Harrison was an American journalist and novelist, born in Sewanee, Tenn. In 1914, he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His novels include Queed (1911), V.V.'s Eyes (1913), Angela's Business (1915), and Saint Teresa (1922). He also wrote a memoir, When..... More
Date Published: 1865 to 1883 Binding: No binding Thomas Hughes was a British lawyer, judge, politician, social reformer and prolific author. His most famous work is the semi-autobiographical novel, Tom Brown’s School Days (1857). A Hughes Scholarship was founded at Oriel College, Oxford. It was a closed award, open only..... More
Date Published: 1881 to 1989 Binding: No binding & hard cover The Huxley family is a notable British family. Several family members have excelled in science, medicine, arts, and literature. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), the patriarch of the family, was a zoologist, comparative anatomist, and friend of Charles Darwin. His..... More
Date Published: ND to 1869 Binding: No binding & hard cover Jean Ingelow was an English poet, novelist, and a writer of short stories for children. The collection contains 7 items dating from ND to 1869, specifically 2 letters, 4 cartes de visite, and 1 book with enclosures. 2 Autographed..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1906 to 1932 Binding: No binding & hard cover Wallace Irwin was an American satirist, playwright, and also wrote humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political satire, and lyrics for Broadway musicals The collection consists..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1920 Binding: No binding & hard cover William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels, best known for his farcical comedies and his horror story, “The Monkey's Paw”. Louis N. Parker was an English dramatist, composer and translator. His 1911 Broadway play..... More
Date Published: 1878 to 1993 Binding: Collection of a group 14 items of miscellaneous, ephemera, letters and photographs of Navy ships relating to Canada including HMCS Provider, HMS Ariadne, other Ships and Bou-Mahni Mines Algiers materials. Dates on photos are period dates not we believe when the prints were..... More
Date Published: 1916 to 1955 Binding: No binding & hard cover Alfred Kreymborg was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor, and anthologist. The son of a cigar-store owner, he attended public school in Manhattan and became a chess phenomenon by the age of ten. He began writing poetry in..... More
Date Published: [1897] to 1927 Binding: No binding & hard cover William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. Le Queux mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I. He wrote 150 novels dealing with international intrigue, as well as..... More
Date Published: 1850 to 1911 Binding: No binding & hard cover INTERESTING COLLECTION OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN AUTHOR Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the author of Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and many poetry collections, Longfellow (1807-1882) was America’s greatest poet of the nineteenth century. He was also a translator, educator..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1887 to 1891 Binding: No binding & hard cover Charles Henry Lüders was born in Philadelphia, the son of Thomas L. and Eleanor C. Lüders. He was an American poet, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Our..... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1902 Binding: No binding Edna Lyall (pseud. of Ada Ellen Bayly, (1857-1903) was an English novelist. The daughter of upper-middle-class parents, educated privately, she spent her life living first with a sister married to the Vice Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and later with another sister married..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1832 to 1919 Binding: No binding This archive collection contains 37 items dating from 1832 to 1919, specifically 24+ letters, 6 photos, and other pieces of ephemera. Although some documents have folds, stains, tears and nicks, most of the material is..... More
Date Published: 1940 to 1981 Binding: No binding Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, playwright, essayist, Librarian of Congress, lawyer and writer who was associated with the Modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. MacLeish was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his..... More
Date Published: 1948 to 1997 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and political candidate. His novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) brought him early and wide renown. The collection has 8 items dating from 1948 to 1997, specifically 6 letters, 1 signed..... More
Date Published: 1892 to 1943 Edition: various Binding: No binding & soft cover A collection of 147 mostly unique ephemera items dating from 1892 to 1943, specifically approximately 70 leaflets and chapbooks, approximately 50 letters, 11 broadsides, 11 photos, 3 manuscripts/typescripts, 1 scrapbook, and 1 book. Edwin Markham (né Charles..... More
Date Published: 1915 to 1943 Binding: No binding HIS TOURING COMPANY HAD MANY SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTIONS Knighted in 1921, John Martin-Harvey was an English stage actor. He joined Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre company in 1882 and for many years he played only minor parts in Irving's productions. During the Great War..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1895 to 1949 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Circa 130 documents (letters, reports, etc.), mainly written in French, some in English, a few in German, some annotations in Arabic. Most documents are addressed to the Directeur Général, Musée Egyptien, in..... More
Date Published: 1834 to 1895 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: 3-Ring Binder A unique and important early Ontario land ownership archive of Judge William Collis Meredith. This archive is a fantastic testimony of land and forest economics and the management of absentee land ownership in Southern Ontario in the 19th century;..... More
Date Published: 1875 to early 1900’s Binding: No binding & hard cover Small collection of 4 items dating from 1875 to early 1900’s, specifically 2 letters, 1 broadside and 1 book. Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a...... More
Date Published: 1781 to 1800 Binding: Hard Cover Dr. John Moore was a Scottish physician, travel author, novelist, and editor of the works of Tobias Smollett This collection has 7 books (14 vols.), dating from 1781 to 1800 including copies of his three novels, a travel book about Italy, and..... More
Date Published: 1875 to 1909 Binding: No binding Henry J. Morgan was a Canadian civil servant, lawyer, and author, best known for publishing collections of biographical sketches of notable Canadians such as Sketches of Celebrated Canadians, Bibliotheca Canadensis, and The Canadian Men and Women of the Time. He was a...... More
Date Published: 1912 to 1936 Binding: No binding & soft cover Douglas Murray was an English playwright. His works were produced on the English stage from 1907 to 1929. His most successful play is entitled “A Man from Toronto” which was made into a feature movie in 1934 by Gainsborough..... More
Date Published: 1914 to 1944 Binding: No binding & hard cover Kathleen Norris was an American novelist, poet and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States. Collection contains 37 items dating from 1914 to 1944, specifically 3 Autographed..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1922 to 1979 Binding: No binding & hard cover This collection contains 9 items dating from 1922 to 1979, specifically 6 letters, 1 post card, 1 typed memorial address, and 1 book. Charles Kay Ogden was an English linguist (the inventor..... More
Date Published: 1913 to 1940 Binding: No binding E. Phillips Oppenheim was a best-selling English novelist who wrote approximately 100 novels and 40 anthologies of short stories. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have..... More
Date Published: 1849 to 1893 Binding: No binding & hard cover Francis Parkman Jr. was an American historian, best known as the author of The California and Oregon Trail and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. The collection consists of 7 items dating from 1849 to 1893..... More
Date Published: 1968 to 2017 Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, and academic. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which..... More
Date Published: 1936 to 1951 Binding: No binding & hard cover Emily Post was an American novelist, author, columnist, socialite, and an authority on etiquette. "Etiquette," she once said, "is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is the code of sportsmanship and of honor. It is ethics." More..... More
Date Published: 1914 to 1948 Binding: No binding & hard cover Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American novelist, playwright, and author, often called the American Agatha Christie. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. It was one..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1913 to 1975 Binding: No binding & hard cover Cecil Roberts was a prolific English journalist, editor, poet, dramatist, and novelist. During World War II, he worked in the USA for the British government in the war effort. He lived among..... More
Date Published: 1892 to 1930 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts Known as the Father of Canadian Poetry, Charles G.D. Roberts was a poet and prose writer who inspired creativity in other poets of his generation, among them Bliss Carman (his cousin), Archibald Lampman and..... More
Date Published: 1975 to 2019 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection contains 51 items dating from 1975 to 2019 specifically 1 signed book, 49 photos, and 1 program. 1 Book (signed): • Grimus. London: Victor Gollancz, 1975. Purple paper boards in dust jacket, not price..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1911 to 1929 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert W. Service collection contains 9 items dating from 1907 to 1929, specifically 3 books, 1 movie herald, 4 letters, and 1 photo. 3 Books: • The Trail of..... More
Date Published: 1937 to 1966 Binding: No binding & hard cover INTERESTING EDITH SITWELL COLLECTION Dame Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style..... More
Date Published: 1949 to 1965 Binding: No binding & hard cover Bella and Samuel Spewack were an American husband-and-wife writing team of plays and screenplays. Their most successful production was Kiss Me Kate with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The collection includes 22 items dating from 1949 to 1965..... More
Date Published: 1939 to 1985 Binding: No binding & hard cover Irving Stone was a prolific American author of biographical novels of historical personalities such as Lust for Life about Vincent van Gogh and The Agony and the Ecstasy about Michelangelo. In a century in which popular culture appropriated politics..... More
Date Published: 1945 to 1997 Binding: No binding & hard cover This collection is comprised of 29 items dating from 1945 to 1997, specifically, 20 letters, 6 books, 1 manuscript, 1 card, and 1 news clippings. Julian Gustave Symons was a British crime writer and poet who also wrote social..... More
Date Published: 1909 to 1941 Binding: No binding & hard cover Booth Tarkington was an American novelist, dramatist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered America’s greatest living author. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1968 to 2016 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover & Soft Cover #1) Mandate '68: The Year of Pierre Elliot Trudeau SULLIVAN, Martin - 1968 first edition - association copy from Sullivan to Pat Graham, CFTO Toronto host) - details lead-up..... More
Date Published: 1982 to 1997 Binding: No binding & hard cover Anne Tyler is a celebrated American novelist, short story writer, screen write and literary critic. She was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The collection contains 8 items dating from..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1842 to 1996 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection has original material pertaining to 22 American women poets, dating from 1842-1996 a total of 63 items, specifically 30 letters, 14 pieces of ephemera, 8 typescripts / manuscripts, 8 books..... More