Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited, 1917. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. green cloth, 311pp. Illustrated with thirteen plates, including frontispiece. Name on half-title, light rubbing to spine and extremities, o/w near fine. A collection of wartime letters from Mildred Alrich (1853-1928). American journalist and foreign correspondent who lived..... More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, 448pp. Fine in a fine, but clipped d/w. A witty and profound friendship documented by two authors of American Literature. More
Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paperback, 461pp. Illustrated. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. French Canadian 19th century writer, who recalls his youth in Quebec, and historical figures such as Lord and Lady Dorchestor, the Chevalier Charles Tarieu de Lanudiere, and many others. First translation in..... More
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii, 422 p.p. Cloth. Illustrations. Discolouration to spine ends and corners of dust-jacket. Tears to ends of dust-jacket. Bumping to boards, extremities. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Notes in blue ink to head of rear pastedown. Price clipped. Overall a...... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1919. Hardcover. 12mo. Light coloured cloth spine, blue paper boards with title to front board. Bookplate to front paste-down. A couple of pencil notes to the text, but overall a good clean copy. More
London: John Murray, 1813. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full calf binding with blind palm leaf tooling, framed in gilt. Title on new green leather spine label. Blind scrollwork tooling on spine. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. [14], 358, [1]. With ten coloured engravings incl. frontis, from drawings by a native artist..... More
London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1849. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth, 180pp., 8pp ads. Light foxing, and light wear to spine and boards, but still very good. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1888. Hardcover. 8vo (5" x 7.75"). Three volumes in one. Copyright edition. With the author's latest corrections. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. xv, 351, 1-372, 1-376 p.p. B&W frontis. portrait of Cromwell with facsimile signature and inscription. Spine ends bumped and chafed, corners..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown paper boards. xi, 267 pp. Fine. More
Toronto: A Douglas Gibson Book, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, xiv, 413pp. About fine. "The letters of Robertson Davies are an unmitigated delight." London Free Press. More
Paris. No Binding. 4.5" x 7" Undated, ca. 1880s? Single sheet autograph letter, addressed to "Mon cher ami." Addressed from 98, Avenue de Villiers (Paris). Age toned, darkening to edges, fold line through center. Overall about fine given its age, with clear signature. Untranslated. Alexandre Dumas fils [1824-1895] was a...... More
21 Rue Gutenberg, Boulogne-Sur-Seine: 1970. No Binding. 9.5" x 6.5" This two page typewritten letter signed by famous art deco artist Erte, addressed to Brooklyn Architect Ira Goldfarb on decorating a large panel in the dining room of Barbara Streisand's townhouse on 49 East 80th Street in New York. Erte..... More
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. Light brown cloth, xviii, 68pp. Light residue from mylar on lower front and rear boards, but in fact near fine in a fine d/w. This work contains 27 letters from British Poet Laureate Robert Bridges and 15 letters from..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 135 p.p. [6] plates of photographs and illustrations, incl. frontis of Fitzgerald. Library stamp of Barmouth Library on front free endpaper. Light foxing. Trimmed pages, not affecting text. Boards scuffed, with light rubbing to edges. Else a near fine copy..... More
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full dark green cloth. Top edge green. xiii, 209 pp., [11] pp. B&W photos, incl. frontis. Includes family trees of The British Royal Family from King George III, and the German Hohenzollern from King Frederick William III. Scuff to foot of..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. xix, 404, 32 pp. ads. Spine cocked. Bumping and light chafing to extremities. Hinges starting. Ink ownership inscription to half-title. A few spots of foxing. Some pencil notation. More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Travellers and Explorers Series. Enlarged centenary edition, re-edited and with introduction by author's great-grandson. Orig. red cloth. 385 pp. [24] p. B&W photos. Dust jacket is warped, sunned to spine, bumped to extremities with some short..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo. Reprint. Original grey cloth boards. 377 p.p. [including an index of correspondents]. Frontispiece of the author. Friedrich Von Hugel [1852-1925] was a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, religious writer, theologian, and scholar. Lacks jacket [remaining chipped front cover and rear inner-flap..... More
Boston: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 198 pp. Fine condition. Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the..... More
Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 157 p.p. Near fine. Edna Johnson was one of the few women in the RCAF to serve overseas during World War II, and the situation was from what she had experienced as a typist at No. 1 Bombing..... More
New York: Harper, Row and Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. 346 pp. Errata inlaid. Dust jacket is price clipped, else fine. More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. chartreuse paper boards. xxiv, 245 pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Spine ends slightly sunned and rubbed, light bruising and rubbing to corners. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities. Fine overall. More
London: Johnathan Cape, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Second impression. Orig. cloth. 216 pp. Light bruising to corners. Dust jacket cropped to flaps (not price clipped), sunned to extremities, a few short tears. Edited by the author's brother. More
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 706 pp. Some small spots of wear to extremities, fine overall. More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1905. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. green cloth, gilt titles. vi, 312 pp., [16 pp. ads]. [8] B&W plates. Spine tilted and sunned, rubbing to extremities, rubbing to gilt. Foxing to edges of text block. More