November 2019, LDRB 40 Offered Items

NOVEMBER 2019 - 40 items offered...

Duncan McLaren

Offers categories:

10 COLLECTIONS

8 BOOKS

6 MANUSCRIPTS

1 RADIOVISION

3 PRINTS
12 EPHEMERA

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10 COLLECTIONS...

Judge James Reid Quebec legal archives early (1730-1837) collection

REID, Hon. Chief Justice James [1769-1848]

A RARE AND IMPORTANT EARLY QUEBEC COLLECTION OF 3,900 DOCUMENTS

The Honorable Judge James Reid was born in Scotland and came to Canada around 1788. He was called to the bar of Lower Canada in 1794 and in 1807 was appointed a judge of the Court of King's Bench at Montreal. He filled the judicial office of one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, Lower Canada, for a period of thirty-three years, fifteen of which he presided as Chief Justice. During that time he handled many legal cases including many Fur Trade related cases including that of the North West Company. Judge Reid, was also the nephew-in-law to Simon McTavish.
Archive Content Summary:
* 91 Files (approx. 3,900 original pieces)
* approx. 589 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS)
* approx. 3,014 legal documents
* approx. 301 receipts.
* Covering 1730-1837 with 1798-1807 predominant.
* 10 Boxes - 1-6 and the first file of box 7 are arranged chronologically by year.
* 2 separate case file folders... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 80,000 USD OR $ 105,000 CDN #8021

Ezra Pound collection

POUND, Ezra Weston Loomis (1885-1972)

SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPIES OF POUND'S LATER WORKS

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early 'modernist' literature - that is, experimental literature written during the first part of the twentieth century.

The collection consists of 4 items dating from 1966 to 1979, specifically, two scarce association copies of private press books signed by Ezra Pound and both with "DP's" initials (Ezra Pound's wife Dorothy Pound) provenance. Two pieces of ephemera by Omar Shakespear Pound (1926-2010), Ezra Pound's son with one signed by the poet Omar S. Pound and inscribed to Greg Gatenby, the Canadian author and founder of the Harbourfront Reading Series and the other, signed by Omar Pound and inscribed by him to Greg Gatenby: "For Greg from Omar Oct 1979"... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 2,400 USD OR $ 3,150 CDN #7864

Emlyn Williams celebrated play, "Night Must Fall" Collection

WILLIAMS, Emlyn [1905-1987]

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".

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.... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 1,125 USD OR $ 1,475 CDN #7663

Rev. Henry John Cody of Toronto collection

CODY, Rev. Henry John [1868-1951]

Henry John Cody was a Canadian clergyman, politician and President of the University of Toronto from 1932 to 1945 and Chancellor from 1944 to 1947. He was an Ontario MPP for Toronto Northeast - Seat A from 1918 to 1920 and was Minister of Education from 1918 to 1919. At the University of Toronto Schools, the Cody house in the intramural house system is named in his honour.

Henry John Cody collection of 15 items dating from 1898 to 1937 specifically, 2 handwritten notebooks, three letters and 10 various ephemera most from his time at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Bloor Street, in Toronto. 1889-1937.... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 825 1USD OR $ 1,080 CDN #7447

Eugenio Florit 5 early first editions from 1933 to 1955 signed Spanish books collection

FLORIT, Eugenio [1903-1999]

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.

This collection consists of the following stapled and one glued card covers books:
1. 'Reino' 1938 Ucar Garcia Y Compania. First edition. Signed by Florit on the title page. 66 pp. Cardboard covers. Offcut pages. Pages toned with edgewear to covers. Otherwise, clean and unmarked. Very Good.

2. 'Eugenio Florit Vida Y Obra- Bibliografia-Antologia- Obras Ineditas' 1943 Hispanic Institute in the United States, New York. First edition. Signed by Eugenio Florit.... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 250 USD OR $ 325 CDN #7847

Colette Willy collection

MARKLAND, Russell (1892-1973)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was of the most famous of modern French writers and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She wrote over 50 novels including Gigi (1944), and "Cheri" (1920). Colette died on 3 August 1954 in her apartment in the Palais-Royal, aged 81. She was given a state funeral.

Colette Willy was included in "The 100 Most Influential Woman of All Time" 2010 edited by Kathleen Kuiper, p220

This most interesting and scarce Colette ephemera archive contains 7 items dating early 1900's to 1944 specifically, 5 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS), one with small photo and 2 unused post cards.... Click for more information and photo;

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Price: $ 1,500 USD OR $ 1,970 CDN #7849

Louis Untermeyer Collection

UNTERMEYER, Louis [1885-1977]

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 14 items, specifically, 2 Autographed Letters Signed ; 5 Typed Letter Signed ; 2 Other Typed Letters ; 3 Books, 1 photo and 1 Ephemera. Covers time period from 1925 to 1969... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 975 USD OR $ 1,280 CDN #7662

Grant Allen mini-collection

ALLEN, Grant (1848-1899)

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 with this book (on the front free endpaper of The Woman Who Did. London: John Lane, 1895), green cloth, Keynotes Series, [viii], 241, [1], pp., 16 pp. adverts. Title-page design by Aubrey Beardsley, repeated on the upper cover, with label noting that the book was purchased at the sale of Lang's library by Henry Sotheran & Co... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 960 USD OR $ 1,260 CDN #7634

Henry Cockshutt of Brantford & Family Collection

COCKSHUTT, Henry [1868-1944]

Henry Cockshutt and family (his wife, Isabelle, and their daughters). An archive of social correspondence mainly to Isabelle Cockshutt but also to her husband, Henry Cockshutt (1868 - 1944), who was the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Born in Brantford, Ontario, he started in the family business, Cockshutt Plow Company, in 1884. He was appointed lieutenant-governor of Ontario and served in that position until 1927. From 1929 to 1944, he was the chancellor of the University of Western Ontario. He retired as president of the Cockshutt Plow Company in 1934 and became chairman of the board, which he held until his death.

This collection is comprised of approximately 25 letters, 10 Christmas cards, a pamphlet, 7 photos, and 10 other kinds of documents or cards relating to . Although there is an early letter dated 1896, most of the archive was created in the 1920s when Cockshutt was lieutenant-governor at Government House in Toronto. With the exception of a lovely photograph of Isabelle Cockshutt, all the material is housed is a black cloth linen box. The archive reveals that the Cockshutts belonged to the social elite in Canada with letters and notes from General Haig, Bying of Vimy, Olive Baden-Powell, Anne Chamberlain, the Prince of Wales, and other luminaries.

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Price: $ 720 USD OR $ 945 CDN #7448

Edward William Thomson Collection

THOMSON, Edward William (1849-1924)

Edward William Thomson (1849-1924):
The name of E. W. Thomson is a household word among Canadian literary men, and stands for a skilled craftsman in both prose and verse

Edward William Thomson Collection contains 7 Ephemera (signed) and 1 Book dating from 1909 to 1917.

1) Cabinet b&w oval photograph, SIGNED on reverse, "To Samuel Asbury, from his friend, E.W. Thomson." Taken in Ottawa, Canada circa 1904.
(2) TLS to Asbury, 4 pp., 27 Sept. 1907, Ottawa. Lots of personal information, including his life history. "...On both sides my people were reckoned gentry, my father was unfortunate in his money affairs, at 18 yrs I left school to earn my livelihood, at 18 I began to help my family, and though I married at 23, I stuck to the duty til I was just past 50.... Click for more information and photos;

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Price: $ 700 USD OR $ 920 CDN #7452

8 BOOKS ...

Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees

EVELYN, John (1620-1706)

1664. London, Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry

First edition. (folio, 295 ×185 mm). Bound in contemporary full calf with some spine leather starting but holding firm and spotting on back cover with some leather on front cover long ago peeled . Original end papers at front with old book plate removed. Back board end paper lacking. Previous owners name neatly written on first blank page. Otherwise, in very good condition. Stored in a buckram box, marbled end papers, with an ornamental, leafy leather spine label on the box. [16], 120, [2], 4, [2], 5-40, [2], 41-50, [2], 55-83, [3] pp.: Title in red and black with engraved arms, woodcuts. with errata and imprimatur leaves... Click for more information and photos;