#1 [HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY]. [circa1972-75]. [Model of Anik 1]. Model of Anik 1 in metal 3-1/2 inches long, 2-1/2 inches wide across the top, and 1-1/4 inches with a wing on each side each extending 10-1/2 inches and 2 inches wide...

#2) HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY. [circa1972-75]. Barrel shaped model in metal 2-3/4 inches high x 3 inches diameter, shiny blue and black colours , mounted on a polished wood base, 6 inches long x 3-1/2 inches wide...

Anik 1 was launched in 1972 as the world`s first domestic communications satellite in order to transmit television signals from Canada`s national broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to Arctic communities and to provide telephone service to the North...

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 Grey’s popularity as a best-selling author and celebrity of legendary status. The collection contains approximately 89 letters, 1919-1936, accompanied by news clippings and other enclosures. The letters have envelopes and are addressed to Grey. Many of the envelopes have “ans x” or another designation in Grey’s hand. Several have drafts of replies written by Grey or are annotated by him. In addition, there are: 5 photos (two of Grey, one at a fishing camp with Captain Mitchell and others, and the other of Grey fishing on the Rogue River); 2 negatives;...

Sir Stephen Spender was an English poet, novelist, editor and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.

The collection consists of 23 items dating from 1954 to 1994, 11 items, specifically, 7 letters, 1 typescript, and 4 books from Spender’s library. Later added to this collection another 23 items, 14 ALS, 5 TLS, 3 Telegrams and 1 post card signed.... Click for more info and photos;

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 6 items dating from 1849 to 1893, specifically 3 letters, 2 books with signatures, and 1 signed postcard..

Jerome K. Jerome was an English author best known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. He had a number of occupations then including journalism and school teaching, and a number of disappointments with the rejections of many short stories and satires he wrote.

This collection covering a period 1888-1929 consists of 7 pieces of ephemeral and 21 books in total..

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. In 1921 he was elected as the first president of the PEN International literary club and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He is best known for his novels, particularly The Forsyte Saga, 1922 which was also a hugely successful television adaptation in 1967.

This collection contains 18 items dating from 1907 to 1933, specifically, 1 Manuscript, 12 Autographed Signed Letters (ALS), 1 Medal, 2 Photos, 1 Bookmark and 1 Book signed....

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 three protagonists. Cary is often identified with Modernism. “Mr. Cary…has actuality like Defoe, humor and energy like Dickens, hand-made prose and improvisation like both these great writers.” - The New York Times

The collection includes 31 items dating from 1936 to 1962, specifically 10 Letters, 8 lobby film cards, and 13 books....

Lloyd Cassel Douglas, was an American minister and author including The Robe (1942) and over a dozen other religious and moral issues inspired novels and was one of the most popular novelists of his period...

This collection contains 8 items dating from [1905] to 1943, specifically, 5 letters, 2 books and 1 signed card... Click for more info and photos;

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 than half a century after her death, her name is still used in titles of etiquette books.

The collection includes 40 items dating from 1925 to 1951 specifically, 3 letters, 24 mimeo radio transcripts, 2 books, 2 photos, 4 postcard/prints, 4 brochures/leaflets, and a card...

Carolyn Wells was a prolific American poet, mystery novelist, and children’s author, who married Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire. Wells often traveled to England and cultivated a wide circle of literary friends on both sides of the Atlantic. She wrote approximately 170 books...

The collection contains 17 items dating from 1900 to 1939, specifically, 1 partial manuscript, 8 letters, 3 books, 2 cards, 1 note, 1 decorative envelope, and 1 title page...Click for more info and photos;

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 his late teens and soon became an active figure in the Greenwich Village literary circles...

The collection contains 15 items dating from 1916 to 1955 specifically, 7 typed signed letters, 1 autographed post card, 5 signed books, and 2 photos... Click for more info and photos;

Pierre Berton / Farley Mowat three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items. The three items are all personally connected to these two Canadian literary giants. Born less than a year apart, Berton and Mowat were passionate story tellers of non-fiction and popular culture. They were the best of friends with Jack McClelland, their flamboyant publisher. Their own relationship blew hot and cold...

First edition. 1832. Niagara, UC. T Sewell, Printer, Market Square, Niagara Upper Canada. (viii), [9]-300pp. Bound in brown three quarter leather with a brown moire cloth. Five raised bands with gilt titling in one compartment... Overall, a very nice copy...

"Thompson, a Scot, served in Canada in the War of 1812 and settled at Niagara as a school teacher. This work is based on official documents, periodicals and historical volumes of settled integrity, also on the Author's personal knowledge of the transactions detailed and on information from persons of unquestionable veracity." ...

1852. Second UK edition. 2 volumes, 5-1/4 x 8 inches. Original dark green cloth unrestored.

Original tan endpapers in both volumes....

Second, and considered better or more complete edition, with an extra, 41 pages (pp. [295]-336) chapter entitled, "Canadian Sketches," added to volume II, which does not appear first London edition, volume II....

1813. New York, Collins & Co. No. 189, Pearl-Street. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, viii, [9]-48pp. Paper wraps missing and minor creasing on last couple of pages. Overall good condition.

"Extracted from a work, written by Erasmus, entitled Antipolemus, or The plea of reason, religion, and humanity, against war; translated and published in London 1794."-- Advertisement inside page [iii]. Translated From the Latin of Erasmus....

2nd edition. 1815. London, Printed for Henry Colburn. Small 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm (approx 7¾ x 4¾ inches), vi, 352pp. Embellished with a Fine Portrait, after Romney. New brown leather spine with gilt type and rebacked preserving original marbled boards and end papers, previous owner's name neatly written on 1st blank, illustrated frontispiece,...

N.D. Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Disraeli. Three pages, size flat 6 x 4-3/8 inches, folded to 3 x 4-3/8 inches. Dated Sunday, Puddletown, Dorchester on blind embossed Deland? letterhead, hoping to arrange a meeting with her brother, who wishes to meet Mr. Benjamin Disraeli.

Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill was an English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector.

Autographed letter signed, One page, 5 x 7-3/4 inches dated Battleford 11 September [19]07. To Inspector J. H. Genereux, instructing him to move the Manitou Detachment work on the Construction and notify him what day to send a team to move the Camp.

J.A McGibbon. was a Superintendent, NWMP, Battleford, Saskatchewan....

Sydney Arthur Fisher was a Canadian politician. Born in Montreal, Canada East, he was educated at the High School of Montreal, McGill University, and finally Trinity College, Cambridge.

Autographed letter signed. One page. 5 x 8 inches. Undated (circa 1910) Privy Council stationery letterhead. Arranging a meeting with several Ministers at the House of Commons...

Autograph Letter signed. One page , 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Dated Oct. 25, 1975, Kingston, on Queen's University letterhead, to Very Rev. Angus MacQueen, Toronto. Friendly letter thanking MacQueen for his interest in Lower's autobiography and for his condolences on the death of Lower's wife...

Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower, was a one of Canada's foremost historians and one of the most formidable personalities at Queen's in the post-war years (1947-59)...

Autograph letter signed. One page, 5-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches. On Department of the Interior, The Observatory, Ottawa letterhead, dated November 10, 1909, 12pm. Asking "to type the enclosed, making two or three copies"...

Otto Julius Klotz was a surveyor, civil servant, astronomer, and author. He was born in Preston (Cambridge), Upper Canada...

Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 8-1/8 x 11 inches. Dated February 11th, 1964 on Lieutenant Governor's Office letterhead. Thanking Mrs. Bothwell for her letter on the Throne Speech, noting it was "my first one", his appointment by the Prime Minister in taking the post, and his hesitancy in accepting it.

The Honorable Robert Leith (Dinny) Hanbidge was a politician, judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan. From 1911 to 1913, he played football for the Regina Rugby Club (now the Saskatchewan Roughriders)....

Autograph letter signed. One page, 5 x 6 inches. Undated. Declining an invitation to Mr. Newsome of the Toronto Young Liberal Conservative Club but confirming attendance at a future meeting...

William Bullock Ives was a lawyer, businessman, and politician. Minister in cabinets of Macdonald, Abbott, Thomson, Bowell and Tupper. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada...

Autographed letter signed. One page. 5 x 8 inches. Dated Toronto, 24th June 1946. Sending his autograph as a separate card (not included here) and as noted below the signature "or you can call this an autograph"...

The Hon. Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth was a lawyer and a Canadian politician. He was educated at the University of Toronto and was awarded the Silver Medal in Metaphysics and Ethics at commencement on the 9th of June, 1874...

Two pages written in French, 6 x 7-1/2 inches. Dated Price House, Quebec. 14 Janvier 1935. Arranging a meeting for Mr. Whitehead. Letter signed "André Taschereau" This letter was written while Taschereau was Premier of Québec....

First edition. [1857] [New York], Currier & Ives Image: 39.2 x 26.2 cm (15.4” x 10.3”) . Currier & Ives B&w lithograph in an antique Birdseye Maple frame. Titled: 'The Railroad Suspension Bridge, Near Niagara Falls; Length of Bridge 822 Feet, Height Above Water 240 Feet', 1856, John A. Roebling, Engineer (builder of the Brooklyn Bridge)...

The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge was the world's first working railway suspension bridge.

$31 Toronto cheque written and signed by Thomas Galt on front with line through it and made out to Graeme Mercer Adam and endorsed by Adam.

Thomas Galt was a lawyer, judge. and eldest son of John Galt and younger brother of A.T. Galt, father of Confederation. 

Graeme Mercer Adam was a Canadian author, editor, and publisher...

Signed card 3-1/4 2-1/4 inches, ”Frank Baird / Tilsonburg / April 19, 1931"

Frank Baird was a Canadian educator, Presbyterian minister and author of several books, including Roger Davis, Loyalist...

Signature on signed 3 x 1-1/2 inch card.

Gideon Decker Robertson was a Canadian Senator, and Labour Minister in Borden and Bennett's cabinets. He was a telegrapher by profession and had links with conservatives in the labour movement. ln January 1917, he was appointed to the Senate as a Conservative as a means of bringing in labour representation during the First World War...

Typed letter signed. One page. Flat 7-3/4 x 13 inches, folded 7-1/2 x 4-38 inches. Dated London. Jan[uary] 15th,1895. Accepting an invitation to speak at the Young Men's Liberal Conservative Club of Toronto.

Walter Humphries Montague was a Canadian politician, Minister of agriculture for Canada....

Israel Tarte was a notary, journalist, newspaper owner, and politician. Tarte came to prominence as editor of several newspapers, Le Canadien, L'Evénement, La Patrie and the Quebec Daily Mercury. He was a Minister under Wilfrid Laurier. "The four elements that made him what he was - a francophone, Catholic, Canadian, and British subject - sometimes led him, in politics, to try to square the circle." DCB

Typed letter signed with Free Frank envelope. One page, 8 x 10 inches. Dated Office of the Minister of Public Works, Ottawa, September 6th, 1897. Letter refers to a dispute between lumber and agricultural interests and suggesting he will attempt to work out a solution....

One page, Arthur F. Sladen 8 x 10 inch letter Dated 13 May 1901 on Government House Ottawa letterhead, with Earl of Minto, the Governor General's autograph (present) on 4-3/4 x 2 inch paper...

John Gilbert, 4th Earl of Minto, long before his vice-regal appointment, Lord Minto spent several years in Canada serving as an Aide-de-camp to General Middleton during the North West Rebellion. After serving as Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904...

Typed letter signed. One page, 8 x 10 inches. Dated, Ottawa, February 11th, 1931 on Judges Chambers, Supreme Court letterhead. Making plans to attend a meeting of the Canadian Authors Association meetings in London in 1932.

Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret was 9th Supreme Court Chief justice. of Canada and Acting Governor General of Canada in 1952...

Typed letter signed, One page, 8 x 10 inches, dated The Senate, May 8th, 1915. To the Canadian poet Thomas O'Hagan, offering support for the recognition of Castell Hopkins at the University of Ottawa.

Napoléon-Antoine Belcourt born in Toronto, was a Franco-Ontarian parliamentarian, lawyer and journalist, member of the Canadian Senate. He was elected to the House of Commons as the Liberal member for Ottawa in 1896, 1900 and 1904. He served as Speaker of the House in 1904 and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1905 and to the Senate in 1907...

Two Hugh Graham letters, one to Howard Angus of the (London) Times and the other to Howard Kennedy, The Times Book Club, London...

Hugh Graham was a Canadian newspaper publisher, owner of Montreal Star, businessman, and philanthropist. Atholstan was the first and most successful of the entrepreneurs who ushered in the modern newspaper age in Canada.

Jonathan Goforth signature on card

Jonathan Goforth was the first Canadian Presbyterian missionary to China with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, with his wife, Rosalind (Bell-Smith) Goforth. Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early 20th century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major element in Protestant China missions. t is said of him that "when he found his own soul needed Jesus Christ, it became a passion with him to take Jesus Christ to every soul."...

Both autographs on the back of a 4 x 7-1/2 inch envelope. "dated Sept. 7/34, To Gordon with best wishes..." Signed by Carmen Lombardo and Lebert Lombardo. Very good condition..

Carmen Lombardo and Lebert Lombardo were musicians as well as brothers of Royal Canadians bandleader, Guy Lombardo. Both were original members of the Royal Canadians band formed in 1923...

Three letters, from Elizabeth Sutherland, Dunrobin Cottage, Meach Lake, Quebec, 1914, in each requesting an autograph of a Canadian politician.

1) J.A. (John Alexander) Mathieson (1863-1947) 12th Premier of Prince Edward Island.

2) Arthur L. (Lewis) Watkins Sifton (1858-1921) 2nd Premier of Alberta (1910-1917).

3) James K. (Kidd) Flemming (1868-1927) 14th Premier of New Brunswick (1911-1914)....

Note signed, 4-3/4 x 6-5/8 inches undated, on stationery on Mayor's Office letterhead. ”For publication today / H. Beaugrand". Very good condition.

Honoré Beaugrand was a Canadian journalist, politician, Mayor of Montreal, author and foiklorist. Honoré...

Murdoch Mackenzie signature on 3-1/4 x 2-1/4 inches card. Front: "Murdoch MacKenzie ; Chang the Ho ; North Honan ; China" VERSO: "CNOCMEWS BELMONT Ontario". Very good condition.

Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie was Presbyterian/ United Church missionary to China....