Erica Jong (1942-) is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

This collection includes; 1 Autographed Letter Signed (ASL) ; 1 Typed Review Proof Draft (signed) ; 2 Books (signed) ; 10 Photos and 2 Ephemera.

Some content: * Uncorrected page proof copy of the American edition of Fear of Flying, green wraps printed in black lettering, reviewer's copy (Terry Stokes, therapist, lecturer, teacher and stage performer, who reviewed the book in the New York Times, Nov. 11, 1973) with many passages underlined by him in pencil and red ink, with marginal commentary, lower front cover wrap chipped, large 10/29 in red marker on front wrap, spine bit faded, sheet signed by Jong pasted on verso of the back wrapper, with 17 pp. of two drafts of his review and outline with changes/corrections in red and black ink  ...    Click for more information and photos;

On consignment with LDRB.

Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, editor and translator of more than one hundred books for readers of all ages.. He will be best remembered as the prolific anthologist whose collections have introduced students to contemporary American poetry since 1919. Untermeyer was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.

This collection includes 1 Autographed Letter Signed ; 4 Typed Letter Signed ; 2 Other Typed Letters ; 3 Books and 1 Ephemera. Covers time period from 1925 to 1969.

Some content; 1 Autographed Letter Signed (ALS);
* ALS to William Rivers Washburn, 13 November 1929, with envelope, re the Phelps article, the Tennyson poem, and going abroad during the winter and then returning to the Adirondacks. * TLS Typed signed poem entitled "Portrait of a Machine", 1 p., n.d.* TLS to Mr. Carter, 7 July 1925, re Yesterday and Today: A Comparative Anthology of Poetry...   Click for more information and photos;

On consignment with LDRB.

Emlyn Williams, in full George Emlyn Williams was a Welsh-born actor, playwright and author of some highly effective, often macabre plays. He give the world his celebrated plays, "The Corn Is Green," and "Night Must Fall". He became the actor Charles Dickens reportedly always wished to be when he became "Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens" in a venerated series of one-man shows.

This Emlyn Williams collection includes 1 Typed Theatre Script ; 4 Books ; 2 Ephemera and 1 Photo. Time period covers is primarily 1935. All material is related to Williams's celebrated play, Night Must Fall, a psychological thriller, when he became an overnight star.  Williams played the lead role of a psychopathic murderer. The play was noted for its exploration of the killer's complex psychological state, a step forward for its genre.  It was first performed in 1935 and then made into a film in 1937, 1954, and 1964. The 1937 film by MGM, which starred Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, and Dame Mae Whitty, was named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.

Some content examples; 1 Typed Theatre Script; * Original typed theatre script of A Night Must Fall, SM's copy (stage manager's copy), page size: 7-1/2 x 13 inches, 54 blank pages with SM's handwritten notes and amendments, plus 45 pages with typescript of the play.. Produced by Miles Malleson, the original production of Night Must Fall premiered May 31, 1935, at the Duchess Theatre in London. The formal West End opening was preceded by a preliminary tour of Edinburgh (April 29, 1935), Newcastle and Glasgow...   Click for more information and photos 

On consignment with LDRB.

#1) [1820] Attractive engraved portrait, signed by John Galt 
#2) 1825 Canada Company, minutes of the intended arrangements between Earl Bathurst, His Majesty's Secretary of State, and the proposed Canada Company  15 APRIL, 1825 
#3) 1825 A Bill to Enable His Majesty to Grant a Company, to be Incorporated By Charter, to be Called "The Canada Company," 18 APRIL, 1825
#4) 1825 A Bill to Enable His Majesty to Grant to a Company, to be incorporated by Charter, to be called "The Canada Company,"  AMENDED BILL MAY 2, 1825
#5) 1825 An Act to enable His Majesty to grant to a Company, to be incorporated by Charter, to be called "The Canada Company," JUNE 27, 1825
#6) 1828 A Bill entitled an Act  to alter and amend an Act for enabling His Majesty to grant to a Company JUNE 23, 1828.
#7) 1828 An Act to alter and amend an Act for enabling  His Majesty to grant to a Company JULY 15, 1828.
#8) An Act for Granting certain additional Powers and Authorities to the Canada Company JUNE 23, 1856
#9) 1833 The Autobiography of John Galt
#10) 1894 A Canada Company Office Toronto (with logo) receipt -   Document signed
#11) hand-written Canada Company letter Sept. 20th, 1841 signed by Frederick Widder to Dr. Robert Alling of Guelph Document signed
#12) hand-written Canada Company letter Dec. 21st, 1860 signed by Frederick Widder to Sheriff Robert Moderwell of County of Perth in Stratford document signed...    Click for more information and photos;

47 small pieces of legal signed document for road maintenance and repairs from 1853- 1856 in Mono Township.

These 47 documents vary in size and condition with an average size of  7" x 3 " and average condition  good however a number of old water stains to sides. Virtually all are docketed with a number and or description and many are signed by the person receiving payment.
A fascinating collection of pre-confederation documents relating to the  building and improved roads infrastructure in Upper Canada, specifically Mono Townships which is just north of Orangeville.
Some background on road maintenance receipts such as these 1853-63 ones issued primarily relating in Mono, Upper Canada.   These Mono Township receipts were for the regular form of "statute labour" performed by able bodied men acting under an overseer (ie, for the township.)
...   Click for more information and photos

1877. New York, Lovell, Adam, Wesson
First edition, first printing, unrestored with ads. Rare. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4 inches. vi, 678pp., [8]ads, very good condition.

The Golden Dog was issued in February 1877. Unfortunately, Kirby received little financial benefit from his masterpiece. Because the original publishers failed to copyright the novel, its author neither received royalties nor kept control of the text.

"The novel's action takes place just before the fall of New France, when the supporters of the popular Chien d'Or trading house, headed by the bourgeois Philibert, struggle against the decadent and corrupt Grand Company of the Intendant BIGOT...    Click for much more information and photos.

Price: $ 2,000 USD OR $ 2,400 CDN        #0558  

1840-38. Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec

First edition. 2 volumes in one: 155pp. & 207pp. Rebacked 3/4 calf, original marbled boards, new eps. Title in gilt on spine. Bottom corners lightly worn. Book condition: Very Good + Edition.

#1: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de Québec, 155pp. 1840,  Impr. de W. Cowan et fils. First edition. (various pagings), ii, 7, 14, 32, 36, 24, 8, 8, 29. Collection of eight reports or relations each one having their own pagination.

#2: Mémoires sur le Canada, depuis 1749 jusqu'à 1760. En trois parties; avec cartes et plans lithographiés. 207pp 1838, First edition. Imprimerie de Middleton & Dawson VII, [1], [1]-207pp. [1], [3 appendice, corrections],[1]. Includes 13 maps and plans (some very faded) including 7 folding plates... Click for more information and photos.

Price: $1,250 USD OR $ 1,500 CDN        #3691   

MOODIE, Susanna [Susannah Strickland] [1803-1885]  

First edition. 2 volumes, Vol. 1; xx, [1]-293, [1] Vol. 2; [4], [1]-294, [2]. 8vo, 3/4 green leather with marbled boards, corners bumped, internally very minor foxing to end papers and first couple of pages, else very good condition. A very attractive set of the first British 2 volume edition in very good condition.

Susanna Moodie wrote these series of twenty-eight sketches, based on her difficult experiences and what to share these, thus she was "prompted by the hope of deterring well-educated people, about to settle in this colony, from entering upon a life for which they were totally unfitted by their previous pursuits and habits."

"Roughing It in the Bush, became a best seller in both England and the United States. One of the characters in the book was called Little Addie and Mrs. Moodie based it on her daughter Agnes."... Click for more information and photos.

Price: $ 795 USD OR $ 965 CDN       #1236     

TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland Mrs. Traill C.P.)  [1802-1899]
 
1836. London, Library of Entertaining Knowledge

First edition, second printing.   4 x 6 1/2 inches, viii, 351. with half-title, 21 wood-engraved plates & illus. (incl. frontis.)
Contemporary 3/4 calf, and marbled boards (matching marbled page edges). Leather spine with elaborate embossing and a dark red and black  leather label with gilt type. Edges somewhat rubbed. A near fine and attractive copy of an important book.

Composed of letters written by the author to her mother and friends in England, the Backwoods includes much useful and interesting information on home-making under pioneer conditions, pioneer recipes for making maple sugar, vinegar, &c... Click for more information and photos.

Price: $ 695 USD OR $ 840 CDN        #2553     

RHYS, Captain [Charles] Horton (1824-1876)

1861.  London. Charles Dudley
First edition.  Octavo. 3 p.l.,[3]-59, 59-62 repeated with asterisk, 60-140 pp. Four plates (three tinted, one colored).
* Frontis: Horton Ryrs plate with facsimile signature tinted plate
* An Iceberg by Moonlight coloured plate
* "Now then what do you want" dog tinted plate
* Newport Crowded Beach tinted plate
Lacking the plate of his leading lady, Catherine Lucette as is often the case.

A funny, detailed account of a tour through Canada and the United States on a wager that the author could not survive purely on the proceeds of an amateur theatrical troupe he was to form. Travel is mainly in the towns of Canada East and West in 1859-60, on a wager that he could pay his way with his talents. Rhys traveled specifically through Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Cobourg, Peterborough, Toronto, Belleville, and Niagara in Canada, and through Baltimore, Detroit, New York, and Rhode Island in the United States
... Click for more information and photos.

Price: $ 400 USD OR $ 480 CDN        #2892      

[HAWKINS, Alfred [1802? - 1854]]

1844. Québec. W. Cowanand Son.

Price: $ 425 USD OR $ 500 CDN        #3055          

SAXE, Maurice, Field-Marshal Count de (1696-1750)

A classic military work by one of the world's most famous soldiers. Observing that the art of war is a science with no certainties or absolutes, Saxe (1696-1750) divides his book into two parts, the first examining the raising, feeding, clothing, exercising, paying, encamping, and moving of an army and its various parts, and the second covering the sublime or strategic aspect of combat, including attack and defense in various terrains, how to interpret the signs of enemy plans, and so on... Click for more information and photos.

Price: $ 350 USD OR $ 425 CDN        #0826            

First edition. 3- 3/4 x 6 inches.  x, [1], 240pp., 6pp ads.  Original half-bound green Turkey morocco with worn corners and front and back boards. Half title, engr. front. & title, all plates present; illustrations slightly spotted. Contemporary  gift inscription on leading front end paper - Oct. 1829. Very Good condition overall.

p. 114  Author of the Rival Crusoes [Agnes Strickland [1796-1874]]. Lady Lucy's Petition; [Prose/14 pages]
p. 232  Ms. Strickland, [Agnes]. Christmas Boxes; [Prose/8 pages]

With contributions by Barry Cornwall, Mrs Hemans, Mary Howitt, Mrs Opie, Thomas Pringle, Miss Strickland (Susanna Moodie & Agnes Strickland), &c. Plates after T. Gainsborough, M.A. Shee, H. Singleton, &c...  Click for more information and photos. 

Price: $ 75 USD OR $ 90 CDN     #1723      

LEMOINE, Sir J(ames). M(acPherson).  [1825-1912]

1876. Québec. Augustin Cote & Co.

Price: $ 65 USD OR $ 75 CDN        #0516    

MAHAN, Captain A[lfred]. T[hayer] [1840 - 1914]

1905. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
First UK edition. Two volumes, each 8 3/4 x 6 inches). Volume 1. pp.xx, (4), [1]-423, with 11 illustrations including frontispiece plus 6 maps and battle plans. Volume 2. pp.xviii, (2), [1]-456, with 16 illustrations plus 19 maps and battle plans.

Mahan examines the causes of the conflict, arguing that its roots went back to the seventeenth century. Although naval battles in the war of 1812 were small-scale rather than large fleet actions, Mahan shows that they were nevertheless crucial to the outcome.

Owned by Robert Malcomson who  wrote a number of books on the War of 1812 including Lords of the Lake in 1999. Volume one of this book set is inscribed " R. Malcomson July 1999 from Francis Edwards Books London which is likely when he was in England for research purposes... Click for more details and photos.  

Price: $ 75 USD OR $ 90 CDN        #2947           

JOHNSON, E.[Emily] Pauline (Tekahionwake)  [1861-1913]

1913. Vancouver

This Harris work was first published in 3 volumes with title: Emigrant family: or, The Story of an Australian settler. - London : Smith, Elder, 1849; this is the first one-volume edition, for the first time under the author's name.

"These legends (with two or three exceptions) were told to me personally by my honoured friend, the late Chief Joe Capilano, of Vancouver, whom I had the privilege of first meeting in London in 1906, when he visited England"... Click for information and photos.

Price: $ 25 USD OR $ 30 CDN        #0489            

NOEL, Theophilus

1904. Chicago, Theo. Noel Co.

Price: $ 60 USD OR $ 70 CDN        #1074             

CHARNOCK, John  [1756 - 1807]

VERY ATTRACTIVE LOOKING BOOK WITH NEW LEATHER & BOARDS!

1806. Boston, Etheridge & Bliss.

2nd US edition. 8vo, 323pp. plus appendix, p.325 to p.350. Frontis portrait of Nelson page missing the  bottom 1/2 inch of page but not affecting type or plate. New 1/2 leather with red labels and gilt type on spine. New marbled boards and new plain end papers.  internally with tone  aging to some pages

Detailed historical account of one of England's most revered military heroes.
Charnock was a naval volunteer, and his work is based largely on letters he had collected for a general naval history
...  Click for more information and photos

Price: $ 125 USD OR $ 150 CDN        #0354          

1902. Boston, Published by Cowles

Price: $ 50 USD OR $ 60 CDN        #0422               

1885-86. New York, Charles L. Webster & Co.

Price: $ 120 USD OR $ 145 CDN        #0404                

1888-91. New York, Published by Charles L. Webster

Price: $ 75 USD OR $ 90 CDN        #0420       

A unique, rare and important piece of Canadian military history.

 

[20pp. with blank on recto of docket p.20] 20cm x 32cm (7-3/4 x 12-5/8 inches)

 

This is the official 20 page 1810 report on the Court Martial of Private Alexander Waddle, at Fort George in Upper Canada, presided over and signed by Brigadier General Isaac Brock, President, and military commander of Upper Canada and soon to become the 'hero of Upper Canada' Counter-signed by the Governor of Canada, Sir James Henry Craig.

Alexander Waddle of the 100th Regiment was convicted by Brock's 2 day court martial for desertion.

'Brigadier General Isaac Brock' as President, presided over the hearings. There were thirteen other officers who were members of the Court Martial some of which which included; Lieutenant Colonel John Vincent, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ellice and J B Clegg performing the legal role of Judge Advocate.

This is signed: 'Isaac Brock B[rigadie]r Gen[era]l L[ord] Presid[en]t' also by Clegg and counter-signed: 'Approv'd J H Craig Gen[era]' and a 2 page "Defence" signed possibly by Alex. Waddle...   Click for more information and photos

DE PUISAYE, Joseph-Geneviève, Le Comte (the Count) [1755 - 1827]    

PUISAYE (Joseph of). Signed letter "Joseph cte D.P." addressed to the General Jean-Victor MOREAU. S.l., [probably 1793, and not on 19 Sept. 1796 as indicated by an old note]. 1 p. 1/2 folios, letter cut into two with the folding and repaired on the back but almost separated. 

 

Fascinating content. A somewhat sycophantic entreaty to turn Moreau to the Royalist side. The dating appears to have been written right after what the bio on Moreau in Wikipedia bio calls his "distinguished retreat." There is also no evidence it was ever received by Moreau. If it was received unsolicited, why on earth would Moreau not have destroyed such a dangerous invitation?
The timing on the part of the Count is odd. One also  wonders if the letter was perhaps a retroactive attempt to discredit Moreau. (i.e. manufactured evidence...Click on for more information and photos;

Click to order

BUTLER, Walter [1752-1781]  

 

WALTER BUTLER SIGNATURE(S) QUITE SCARCE  

 

It is said, the  news of his death caused great rejoicing in New York's Mohawk Valley.
"So feared was the Butler name," George Francis Gilman Stanley has said, "that the rebels of the Mohawk valley rejoiced more over the news of his death than they did at the surrender of [Charles] Cornwallis at Yorktown."... Click for more information and photos

Click to order

BATT, John Thomas (1746-1831) & MONTAGU-DUNK, George, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716-1771) (subject

Click to order

Province of  Canada Government

Click to order

HUME, Joseph (1777 -1855)

Click to order

Large silver gelatin 2004 photograph of Derek Walcott and Ben Okri by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies, three-quarter length, both seated, smiling at one another. Douglas-Menzies' label on verso with details of the shoot,  128 Kensington Church Street, 2004.
Paper size: 15 x 13-1/2 inches
Image size: 10 x 10-1/2 inches
Fine condition. Provenance: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies. The Roy Davids Collection (Bonhams).

 

Derek Walcott [1930-2017] was a Saint Lucia poet and playwright.  The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 was awarded to Derek Walcott.
Ben Okri [b1959] is a Nigerian novelist, poet, and essayist. His honors include an OBE, Italy's Premio Palmi and Premio Grinzane Cavour, the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award, and the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. .. Click for more information and photos;

Click to order

Unknown photogrpaher

Steamer photos circa 1925 with a stamp on back  STORY PHOTO COM. FT. WM.
Each photo size:
Paper: 2-5/8 W x 4-3/8 H inches
Image: 2-1/4 W x 4 H inches.
Very good condition...  Click for more information and photos

Click to order

JENNINGS, William Nicholson [1860-1946]

Five Niagara Falls photos circa 1911, all signed and or inscribed by Jennings at the reverse. Measurements: Each is 10" x 8".  Condition: Very good, some losses and creasing.

 

Some uncommon photos taken by Jennings. The photos of Niagara Falls are excellent examples of Jennings photography beyond Philadelphia and an important part of Jennings personal history and profession. 

 

In this set there are three similar prints made of of the foot of the American Falls. Three are prints of the same image each with different exposures and thus visual effects.

Provenance: From the estate of Lois C. Jennings, wife of Ralph Jennings Sr. who was the son of William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946)...  Click for more information and photos

Click to order

Circa 1765. Very early edition. This hand-coloured engraving was trimmed to the edges 292mm x  442mm  ( 11.5 x 17 3/8 inches) and mounted to a dark card stock. The English only title was mounted on the reverse on the reverse of the dark mounted card.  Good condition only. 

"In 1758, while in command of the 'Buckingham', 64 guns, he intercepted a French convoy protected by the 'Florissant', 74 guns, and two frigates. The 'Buckingham', is depicted in the right background of the portrait, flying a commodore's pendant and a white ensign...  Click for more information and photos  

Click to order

Paper size: 26-3/4 x 17 inches
Image size (not text): 25 x 13-1/8 inches Circa 1876.
"The Charge of the Six Hundred" by Lady Elizabeth Butler.  Black and white photogravure (not a steel engraving), copyright, The Fine Art Society London

 

Survivors walking back after the failed charge of the Light Brigade; wounded, bandaged. and dazed figures, some mounted soldiers.   

 

Elizabeth Thompson, later Lady Butler, was perhaps the leading painter of this genre of the late nineteenth century...Click for more information and photos: 

Click to order

Click to order

Click to order

Click to order

Click to order

Click to order

MOWAT, Sir Oliver [1820-1903]

1899. 13-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript on one side, brown paper. Red embossed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario seal, in very good condition.

Signed by G. E. Lunsden, and Oliver Mowat

MOWAT, Sir Oliver [1820-1903] Lawyer, politician, judge, and office holder. Mowat was the third Premier of Ontario, the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and one of the Fathers of Confederation.

George E. LUMSDEN (1847-1903) After a career in journalism, George Lumsden entered the Ontario Civil Service in 1880... Click for more information and photos;

Click to order

Margaret Crewe signature on 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 inch envelope dated 1926. [accompanied by a letter from her secretary, J. Corbett and dated 1st July, 1926.
Envelope is wrinkled on left side with the writing going through the M in Margaret in the signature otherwise in good condition.

Click to order

3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. 1909 postmarked dated Post card showing black baby girl on an old wooden crate with watermelon next to her.

Washa Ont., &  Ramona Ont. Split circulars postmarks with a 1¢ stamp.
Creased left and right corners otherwise, very good condition..... Click for more information and photos.

 

Click to order

 

Click to order

6-1/2 x 8 inches unpaginated. New red leather spine with gilt type and new endpapers. Over 70 pages with one and up to 10 signatures per page - over 200 signatures. An autograph book covering over 50 years from 1894 to 1947. Very good condition.

Numerous signatures, remembrances, comments predominately by ranking officials in the Church. Interesting entries from Bishops, Archdeacons, and many others from all over the world including Asia, Africa, New Guinea and many other fascinating origins, in excess of 200  signatures. A number of loose autographs, notes and newspaper clippings throughout are also included.
...  Click for more information and photos.  
 

Click to order