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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE: WITH A MEMOIR. RIVIERE & SON BINDING.

By: (Brooke, Rupert.) Memoir by E. Marsh.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1926

Seller ID: 30487

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good-

clix (Memoir), 160 pp, 7 1/8" H. Riviere & Son binding (stamped on verso of free front endpaper) - blue leather spine/corners, marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.Two tissue-covered b&w portraits. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is best known for his war sonnets, particularly "The Soldier". Previous owner's small bookplate on front free endpaper; small chip at bottom edge of half-title page; small light foxing mark on page lxxix, tiny foxing mark on one other page and a small light line mark on an...
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LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY: "THE ISLAND'S LADY OF STORIES".

By: (Montgomery, Lucy Maud - L.M.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Springfield, Prince Edward Island, Women's Institute: 1975

Seller ID: 12347

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

20 pp, 7 1/4" H x 5 1/4" D. B&w photographs. A short biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables and other children's classics. Includes three poems: "Twilight in Abegweit"; "In Lover's Lane"; and, "Off to the Fishing Ground", an essay entitled "Prince Edward Island", plus the words and music for "Island Hymn". Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small # 69 written in pen at top corner of front cover, tiny stain and small light water stain on rear cover. Postage for this light i...
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TOLSTOI'S MOSCOW HOME. (TOLSTOY.)

By: (Tolstoi, Leo) (Tolstoy).

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1957.:

Seller ID: 9195

84 pp, + 16 b&w plates, 16 mo, (6 1/2" H), soft cover. A room-by-room description of Tolstoi's Moscow home and garden, with a chronology of his life and work during the 1880s and 1890s, followed by a section of b&w photographs. Interior - book cra cked at beginning of illustration section but pages are holding firmly, otherwise clean with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, top front corner of book has soft creases through covers and text, bottom front cover ha s s m a l l c r e ase with migration into first few pages, tiny pieces missing at bottom of spine. Good ...
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Image for THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

By: Anderson, Sherwood; Cohn, Louis Henry; Carter, John; Coleman, Carroll D.; Jackson, William Alexander; Newton, A. Edward; Adams, Frederick B., Jr.; Rockwell, Norman; Kent, Rockwell; Winterich, John T., et al.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pynson Printers: 1935

Seller ID: 28901

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

4 volumes, consecutively paged - No. 1, pp.1-160 / No. 2, pp.161-316 / No. 3, pp.317-480 / No. 4, pp.481-644, 9 1/2" H. Cream-coloured, paper-covered boards with series decoration on front boards, varying in colour (teal, pink, blue, beige). Some b&w illustrations. Articles of interest to bibliophiles, including: America's First Bibles, by Randolph G. Adams; Herman Melville as I Recall Him, by Oscar Wegelin; A Note on Ernest Hemingway, by Louis Henry Cohn; Frank Holme: Newpaper Artist and Designer of Books, by Rudolph Gjelsness; A Frontier Bibliophile, by Howard C. Rice; Proof-Reading i...
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JACK LONDON: THE MAN, THE WRITER, THE REBEL.

By: Barltrop, Robert.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Pluto Press, (London, 1978).:

Seller ID: 13759

206 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. B&w photos. "The critics have never treated (London) kindly - his tales were too earthy and ingenuous. His radical political comrades found him an uncomfortable companion - too famous, too wilful and too often given to racist, sexist and elitist opinion. But he struck a chord in the minds of millions who raised him high above the poverty and obscurity to which he was born in 1876, and whose demands on his huge talent helped drive him to an early death forty years later..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterio...
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A POUND OF PAPER: CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK ADDICT.

By: Baxter, John.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Doubleday: 2002

Seller ID: 30604

ISBN: 0385603681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

417 pp, 7 1/4" H. Integral red ribbon bookmark, pictorial endpapers. In the 1950s, at the age of eleven, John Baxter "collected his first book - 'The Poems of Rupert Brooke'. He'd read the volume often, but now he had to own it. This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong obsession. His book-hunting would take him all over the world, but his first real find was in London in 1978, when he spotted a rare copy of a Graham Green's children's book while browsing on a stall in Swiss Cottage. It was going for 5 p. This would also, fortuitously, be the day w...
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LAVENGRO: THE SCHOLAR, THE GYPSY, THE PRIEST.

By: Borrow, George.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, T.N. Foulis: 1914

Seller ID: 30553

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

655 pp + (6) pp of publisher's advertising, 8 1/2" H. Green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, many pages as yet unopened. 12 tipped in colour plates (including frontispiece) with captions & guards - all present, clean & bright. George Borrow's "autobiographical novel" takes the reader from his childhood and early travels around Scotland, England and Ireland, to his beginnings as a writer in London and on to his wanderings as a tinker in early 19th century England. ------ Light browning at top/bottom edges of spine, light...
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JOHN BUCHAN: A MEMOIR.

By: Buchan, William. (John Buchan).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Griffin House: 1982

Seller ID: 23579

ISBN: 887601081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

272 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "John Buchan was a man of remarkably diverse achievements: writer, lawyer, politician, soldier, scholar and, finally, Governor-General of Canada. He was the friend of Roosevelt and of George V, of Henry James and T.E. Lawrence; indeed, there was scarcely a prominent figure of the twenties and thirties whom he did not know. His contemporaries are among the most successful men of their day; his novels, still widely read, dominated the market between the wars; his histories and biographies are much admired; his achievements in public offic...
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THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL. (A MEMORY OF THE MIND OF A CHILD.)

By: Burnett, F.H., Mrs. (Frances Hodgson Burnett.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne:

Seller ID: 30552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

292 pp, 8" H. Brick-coloured boards with gilt & black lettering, color illustration on spine, black lettering, black and color illustrations on front board. Yellow 'crackle' patterned endpapers, b&w illustrations. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), author of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', 'Sara Crewe', 'A Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden', here recounts the story of her youth. Calling herself the 'Small Person', she describes her early life in Victorian era England, her family's journey to their new home in the United States in 1865, and concludes with the acceptance for publication o...
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MANY LIVES - ONE LOVE.

By: Butcher, Fanny.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1972

Seller ID: 30488

ISBN: 060104023

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

463 pp, 8 5/8" H. Signed: "Fanny Butcher" on front free endpaper. B&w photographs. "This is the extraordinary memoir of the lifelong passion - and the multiple friendships - of one of the outstanding women of (the twentieth century), who has lived her life to the full in the heart of the Midwest and the literary circles of two continents. Young Fanny Butcher began her career just before the dawn of the Chicago literary renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. (S)he got a job as assisant to the woman's editor of the Chicago Tribune, and worked her way to the position of literary edit...
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BLISS CARMAN AND THE LITERARY CURRENTS AND INFLUENCES OF HIS TIME.

By: Cappon, James.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1930

Seller ID: 9387

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

340 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H) - maroon boards with gold lettering on spine/front cover. Contents: Beginnings; Behind The Arras; Songs From Vagabondia; Memorial Verse, Elegies and Ballads; The Third Vagabondia Volume; The Pipes of Pan; The Sappho Lyrics; The Prose Essays; Later Poems; Shifting Currents; The Tradition of Emerson and Whitman in American Literature; New Systems of Verse - Whitman and Claudel. Interior - pages browning, gift inscription on front free endpaper, moderate browning in page 172/3 from laid-in Christmas gift label. Exterior - minor edgewear, light wear and wrinkling at t...
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CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS. MAKERS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE SERIES.

By: Cappon, James.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press:

Seller ID: 28226

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

148 pp, 16mo (6 5/8" H), dark blue cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine. No date. B&w portrait. Looks at the life and work of Charles G.D. Roberts, focusing largely on his poetry. Contents: Biographical; Anthology; Appreciation; Bibliography; Index. Very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, some darkening to edges of text block.
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BLOKES: THE BAD BOYS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

By: Castronovo, David.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Continuum: 2009

Seller ID: 25565

ISBN: 0826428320

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

197 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). "They came from unpromising places and unglamorous backgrounds. They crashed the Establishment party in one generation, raided the citadels of culture, and brought their idioms, themes, and passions to the center of British life. The blokes were writers who revitalized British drama, fiction, poetry, and criticism. This is the story, told in a series of profiles, of New Britannia. The cast of characters includes playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, novelist Kingsley Amis, critic Kenneth Tynan, poet Philip Larkin, fiction writer Alan Sillitoe, plus ...
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MILLAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE.

By: Cheney, Anne.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 1975.:

Seller ID: 20234

160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0817371613 B&w illustrations. "It was Millay who captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit, and beauty of the pre-1920s as no other poet did. She was a living symbol of the 'new woman' who could live, think, and love as freely as they chose. (This) is a psychological portrait of Millay in her finest years, the ones after she had freed herself of the repression of her childhood and youth and before she accepted th e b o n d s o f a stifling marriage. The four most important influences on Millay's life and art - ...
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SCIENCE FICTION: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA. (SF)

By: Clute, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Canada: 1995

Seller ID: 25258

ISBN: 0771573170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

312 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, drawings, reproductions of book and magazine covers and author signatures, etc. "Covering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, (this book) presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into the cultural influences that shaped the Science Fiction of each period. In over 100 detailed biographies (it) introduces the world's greatest Science Fiction writers - from Mary Shelley ...
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STORY TELLING NEW & OLD.

By: Colum, Padraic.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1961

Seller ID: 17026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

23 pp, 6 1/4" H - patterned paper-covered boards with pastedown title block on front board. B&w illustrations. This essay on storytelling to children first appeared in 'The Fountain of Youth' in 1927. "It is reissued on the occasion of the presentation of The Regina Medal of The Catholic Library Association to Padraic Colum, April 3, 1961." Slight fading to spine colour, small ghost sticker mark on front board.
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THE REAL FIGARO: THE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS.

By: Cox, Cynthia.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann: 1963

Seller ID: 22029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

212 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "(A) biography of a brilliant and impudent man living in eighteenth-century France: Caron de Beaumarchais. It was a life of fantastic adventure. Inventor, secret agent, politician, courtier, publisher and supplier of arms to the American colonies, Beaumarchais also wrote plays. Music lovers enchanted by Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro" and Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville' remember that they are based on the brilliant comedies of Beaumarchais. Born Pierre Caron in 1732, Beaumarchais was the son of a prosperous Parisian clockmaker. As a child, h...
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MEMORIES WITH FOOD AT GIPSY HOUSE.

By: Dahl, Felicity and Dahl, Roald. (With Francis Bacon, P.D. James, John le Carre, Peter Ustinov, et al.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Viking / Penguin: 1991

Seller ID: 25161

ISBN: 0670841420

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

239 pp, 10" H. B&w and colour photographs, drawings. "(A) mixture of delightfully written anecdotes covering Roald Dahl's family upbringing, his youth and early days in Africa, and his happiness at home with Liccy, his wife, and their numerous children, grandchildren and friends. For this extensive family, there is no more enjoyable way of relaxing than sharing good food and wine. The meals they enjoy together round the old pine farmhouse table at Gipsy House are either fine examples of national dishes of their heritage - Norwegian, French, British, etc. - or favourite recipes that ha...
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PETER McARTHUR.

By: Deacon, William Arthur.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press:

Seller ID: 28840

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

180 pp, 6 3/4" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering/decoration on spine, blindstamped signature & border on front board. B&w portrait. One of the "Makers of Canadian Literature" series, edited by Lorne Albert Pierce. Contents: Biographical; Anthology; Appreciation; Bibliography; Index. Tiny light glue mark on free rear endpaper, a few very tiny dlue marks at top of inside front hinge, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners.
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DICKENS IN EUROPE.

By: Dickens, Charles. Selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2010

Seller ID: 27483

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

212 pp, large 8vo (9" H). Dark brown cloth spine with gold lettering, black illustration of Dickens' Swiss Chalet on the mid brown paper covered front and rear covers. Map endpapers, b&w interior illustrations. Dark brown slipcase. Chapter headings: Crossing the Channel (July 1837); The First Visit to Italy (1844-45); Genoa (1844); The Adventure of 'The Chimes' (1844-45); Towards Rome (Spring 1845); Rome (1845); Naples (1845); A Secret Expedition (1845); Goodbye to Italy (June 1845); In Switzerland (1846); Paris (1851); In Provincial France (1853 and later); Switzerland and Italy (1853...
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Category: Literary Biography