Roddy Doyle (b1958) was an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He won in 1993 The Booker Prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world for his book Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

1 Book:

• The Commitments. Dublin: King Farouk, 1987. (4), 144pp. His first book. Card signed by Doyle on front free endpaper. First edition, Soft cover with perfect binding...

Original US Press Kit for the 1991 film release of The Commitments:

• Complete with custom folder, press book, 12 - 8 × 10 promo photos, 4 postcards and a Tosser Glossary...

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist, dramatist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered America’s greatest living author. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

The collection consists of 38 items dating from 1909 to 1941, specifically 3 letters, 1 signed page, 18 photos, 2 books, a glass plate, and 13 ephemera (2 pieces of sheet music, 7 programs and playbills, 2 lobby cards, and 2 post cards). One of the playbills prints letters of appreciation from Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt to Alexandra Carlisle, an English actress and suffragist who settled in the United States...

Kate Douglas Wiggin was the author of numerous children's books, notably, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; she also founded the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, and devoted much of her working life to children's welfare and charities. While Wiggin’s book’s attract great interest and attention this collection provides might greater personal insight and association with this charming author. A great opportunity for any Kate Douglas Wiggin new or existing fan to enhance their Wiggin collection.

The collection consists of 22 items dating from 1900 to 1938, specifically, 5 photos, 4 books, 2 calendars, 2 glass plates, 1 letter, 1 photoprint, 2 leaflets, and 2 photo postcards, 1 post card. A few unrecorded....

[1877 to 1910] London, Ottawa, and NY Topley, Lafayette Ltd., Brown Brothers.

7 b&w cabinet photos.

• Laurier, 36 years of age, 1877, 165 × 108 mm., image somewhat faded, Topley, Ottawa.

• Laurier, 1880s?, 167 × 110 mm., Topley, Ottawa, verso also stamped with the address of Brown Brothers, New York...

4 b&w photos.

• Laurier’s head and chest, 105 × 93 mm., stamped Brown Brothers, Sterling, PA., and NY on verso.

• Laurier and his wife, Lady Laurier (Zoé Laurier, née Lafontaine), 127 × 178 mm., riding in a carriage, stamped Brown Brothers, NY, on verso, circa 1900...

COLETTE WAS GIVEN A STATE FUNERAL IN FRANCE

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was of the most famous of modern French writers and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948...

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....

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. He is one of the most influential, and most controversial poets of the twentieth-century however, Pound's antisemitism soured evaluation of his poetry.

The collection consists of 5 items dating from 1909 to 1979, specifically, 1 Autographed Letter Signed (ALS), 2 scarce association copies of private press books signed by Ezra Pound and 2 pieces of ephemera by Omar Shakespear Pound (1926-2010), Ezra Pound’s son...

W.E. Norris was a prolific English novelist and writer of short stories. Son of the Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was born in London and educated at Eton College. He travelled abroad, abandoned the idea of joining the diplomatic service, qualified as a barrister in 1874, and eventually chose to follow a literary career. He wrote more than sixty novels. He lived in Torquay. During the winter he went to Algiers or the Riviera. Some of his best known works are Matrimony (1881), My Friend Jim (1886), The Widower (1898), Nature’s Comedian (1904), and Pauline (1908).

The collection dates from 1883 to 1908 and consists of 11 signed letters and a signed note....

Genevieve Taggard was an American poet of thirteen poetry collections. The author of the biography The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930), she edited the anthologies May Days: An Anthology of Verse from Masses-Liberator (1925) and Circumference: Varieties of Metaphysical Verse, 1456-1928 (1929). She was a contributing editor to the Marxist journal The New Masses.

The collection consists of 21 items dating from 1922 to 1939, specifically five letters and notes written by Taggard, five letters written by others related to Taggard, three books (two with ALS), a program, two B&W photos, and several news clippings....

Greenland missionary work collection contains 4 items dating from 1818 to 1954 specifically 3 books and one ALS letter.

3 Books (1 ALS letter with one book)

• James Montgomery. Greenland, and Other Poems 1819. Includes an ALS addressed My dear Sir, sent from 13 Pembroke Place, Liverpool, [circa 1834?], .

• Hans Egede. A Description of Greenland. London: T. and J. Allman, 1818.

• Louis Bobé. Hans Egede: Colonizer and Missionary of Greenland. Copenhagen 1952..

Ignazio Silone was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature ten times.

1 Letter:

• TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 9 November 1960, written in Italian...

1 Book:

• Bread and Wine. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. Trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. Black cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket...

[1892] London, Hildesheimer & Faulkner

12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" . 18pp. Solied covers, inside end papers reinforced, new end paper at back and agetoned paper, otherwise good condition overall.

Short collection of mostly religious lullabies, illustrated with numerous sepia drawings. Undated but late nineteenth century. Colour picture of a baby in its cradle attended by two young girls on the front cover.

Unpaged. Illustrated in sepia throughout...

First edition. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches. ((6),[1]-390 pp, Folding coloured engraved map (frontis.) and 8 smaller monochrome meteorological maps and charts at back. Original blind & gilt-stamped green cloth with gilt type on spine slightly sunned...

The author travelled...compares the climate to that of Scotland, describing crops and growing conditions, but also describes the many towns and cities he passed through ('Bytown is a dirty and disagreeable place'), slavery, society,

TPL 3472

1846. London, Charles Knight

5th Edition or later edition. 10cm x 15cm, (4” x 6”), Backwoods [1846} iv,prelims,[5]-8advertisement, [9]-233pp.,[1]blank, 235-243pp. [1]blank. New dark brown cloth boards and spine with paper label. New yellow tan endpapers. Internally the pages are dull with sporadic spotting or foxing....

1st edition. 9 x 6 inches. (6),7-333pp. Signed By Tommy Douglas. Dedication on title page "To Ceil Porter / warmest regards / Tommy Douglas". In protective Brodart dust jacket not price clipped and marks and tear on back, good condition. Book is in near fine condition...

3 page Letter in French dated 1965.

Outstanding content. Marion obviously hugely respectful of Stewart Wallace is contacting him to ask him for his elaboration and perspective of a comment Wallace made in one of the paragraphs of his 1927 book, The Growth of Canadian National Feeling.

Séraphin Marion is explains why "I would like you to give an element of justice and to make an issue - after almost 40 years"....

Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches, Dated St. James Square. June 29,1865. Very good condition.

Reflecting on election matters.

Dear Sir John

I have received your letter and address; the latter appears quite safe and unobjectionable. I need not say that I wish you every success; but Greenwich is not an easy seat for a Conservative to win.

Yours Sincerely,

Derby...

[partial] Autograph Letter Signed. One page, was folded ( 5 3/8 x 3 inches) being a cover letter but now flat 9 x 7 1/4 inches. Undated but postmarked December 4,1846.

To D.S. Kennedy of New York, with content relating to free trade, spelling out its advantages. Noting that for 30 years he has "upheld the dictum of free trade..."...

Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 6-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches. Dated Bryanston Square. 9th Dec[ember], 1831. With seal affixed to face of letter. Some paper attached to reverse from being previously mounted and removed. With noted, otherwise in very good condition.

Sending notice of receipt of a committee resolution, and agreeing to present the committee report to the King....

Paper size: 31 x 20 inches

Image size ( no lettering): 25" by 14"

Black and white lithograph print. Item was in frame and when removed from the frame and matting the poor condition of the border was exposed. A uncommon print of a very famous British battle.

Poor condition, with some age browning but with proper matting and framing will still be appealing.

dated 1909 and printed by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic news....

 "Falls of Niagara, on the River St. Lawrence in Canada." Bungay: C. Brightly & T. Kinnersley, November. 1804. Engraving by T. Wallis. Measures 9" W x 7 1/4" H. Engraved area measures 6 3/4" W x 4 3/4" H. An original black & white antique engraving, printed circa 1825. Black type colour weak especially showing the publisher and engraver. One very light brown spot on top right of border, 1/4" closed tear on left paper edge, otherwise, good condition....

(Sir John Moore) Retreat to Corunna coloured frontis by R. Beavis coloured plate. Paper size: 12" x 8 1/4 inches

Image size: 9 1/2 x 6 inches

Booklet; 12 x 8 3/8 inches. 4pp, light salmon paper wraps in poor condition, coloured frontis, [641]-704 plus 1 page of ads. All insides including coloured frontis in very good condition.

The Boy's Own Paper, August, Part 114, 1888...

Circa 1836. Flat size 30 x 6.75 inches folds to 5 x 6.75 inches This 12pp folder is printed in two colours (light green and black with some soiling. Overall good condition.

17 portraits of the wives of Canadian Governor General’s. From Lady Durham to Roberte, Countess of Beesborough...

1863. Québec, Province of Canada.

15-3/4 x 14-3/4 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal, agetoned, some spotting, small 1/4 inch hole near but not touching Monck signature and creases, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail...

Northern Railway of Canada…Village Plot of Amsterdam in the County of York...

1875. 15-3/4 x 13-3/4 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal, agetoned, stwo 1/4 inch holes on far left not affecting any text but goes into the edge of the blue seal, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail...

John Anderson County of Grey Township of Sullivan...

1860. Roswell O. Darrah (deceased in 1860)

19-3/4 x 14-3/4 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal, agetoned, some creases, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail...

The Legal Representatives of the Late Roswell A Darrah, in his lifetime of the Township of Brome...