Hilaire Belloc was one of the most controversial and accomplished men of letters of early twentieth-century England. He was an Anglo-French Catholic critic, historian, and satirist..

6 letters plus 1 letter written by his son:..

Leonard Baskin was an artist and the founder and publisher of the Gehenna Press in 1942, one of the first fine art presses in USA. Baskin's work is held by major museums worldwide. Baskin was the recipient of many awards and donors, among them were six honorary doctorates, and a member of various national and royal academies in Belgium, Italy, and U.S...

Collection contains 5 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS) dating from 1959 to 1992...

Rex Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. He was lionized as the Victor Hugo of the North. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska...

This collection contains x items dating from 1923 to 1941, specifically 2 letters, 2 cards and 1 magazine...

Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in The Hawk Eye newspaper in Burlington, Iowa and he was well known figure in early Los Angeles. His writings were the source of humorous lectures by John Austen Hamlin on Hamlin's tours to promote his Wizard Oil patent medicine...

This collection contains 15 items dating from 1879 to 1912, specifically 10 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS), 2 books, 1 sheet music and 2 postcards...

Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE was English and widely known as a comic novelist of life in mid to late 20th-century Britain, but his literary work covered many genres - poetry, essays, criticism, short stories, food and drink, anthologies, and several novels in genres such as science fiction and mystery...

8 TLS...

Sheila Ballantyne was an American educator, novelist and short story writer who was well known for her feminist-themed books, including the novel Imaginary Crimes. Her two novels, Norma Jean the Termite Queen (1975) and Imaginary Crimes (1982), both concern women struggling to balance family with their desire to realize their own identities.The author spent much of her later life as a creative writing teacher at Mills College from 1984 until 1996...

3 Books & 1 TLS:

This volume is a bound-with 2 first edition volumes in 1. Full leather, probably pigskin and soiled, more so on spine and edges. 4 x 6 inches. ;

First book; Directions for the Latine tongue by the translator of Religio medici. [John Merryweather]

1681. First edition. London : printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-Yard

[4], 48p. (English text)...

bound with ;

Second book; Janua linguӕ italicӕ brevissima by Dominico 1691 Anthonio de Christiano, Alexander Jansz Lintman, [c1637-1718] printer. 30p. not numbered. First edition, Amsterdam. An instruction / translation book of Latin-Dutch sentences and phrases...

1886. Quebec, Published by Impr. de Jos.-G. Gingras et Cie

First edition. (4),[5]-100pp. 4/34 x 7-1/2 inches. Text in French. Leather bound with marble boards with front board loose...

Account of the Métis Rebellion and Louis Riel. Includes a list of soldiers in the battalion.

George Beauregard was a Private in Compagnie No. 3 of the 9th Voltigeurs de Quebec during the Saskatchewan Rebellion. PEEL 1332

1840. Quebec, Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec

4-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. , 1 v. (various pagings), ii, 7, 14, 32, 36, 24, 8, 8, 29. New burgandary cloth covers with gilt type on spine, new end papers.

Collection of eight reports or relations each one having their own pagination. The first three mémoires are from manuscripts Manuscript obtained from the Archives of the Bureau de la Marine à Paris by Lord Durham in 1838 just before he left Europe to take charge of the Government of Canada and shortly after his arrival at Quebec presented them to the Society, along with two others leaving their publication to the discretion of the Council. The remaining five from manuscripts furnished by Rev. M. Jean Holmes....

1903. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press

First Edition. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches. iv, 126pp. Dark brown cloth cover with gilt type on spine and front cover. A signed note is pasted in the front fly leaf "with the compliments of the author SB Sinclar"

Very good condition.

Published 1903 as thesis for PH.D. degree, Chicago University....

[1847]. London, Thomas Dean & Son

Later UK edition. 14.5cm x 11.5cm, (5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), (4), [6]-62pp., with 7 hand-coloured full-page illustrations, including frontis - no ads.

Inside is very clean. Very Good condition. Attractive 7 hand-coloured plates. Illustrations by T.H. Jones after Whatman...

1894. Toronto, Ross Robertson

First edition. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. Original dark green cloth covers rebacked, with blind embossed front and dull gilt type including "VOL. 1" on spine and front. Fold out image of Queen Street West 1890 at p.21 with paper repairs, otherwise near fine condition. A nice copy.

Over 300 engravings of old houses, familiar faces and historic places, with maps and schedules connected with the local history of York and Toronto...

1758. London, printed for R. Griffiths

3rd edition. (3), [4]-46pp. 4-3/4 x 7-7/8 inches. Disbound, no half-title page. 1/2 inch top border tear on p.43, otherwise very good condition. With 2 appendices. Appendix 1, p.29 lists casualties to the 38th Foot. 

ESTC T150713

The Battle of Saint Cast was a military engagement during the Seven Years' War on the French coast between British naval and land expeditionary forces and French coastal defence forces. Fought on 11 September 1758, it was won by the French...

1856. Toronto, Published by John Lovell

First edition, scarce. 20 x 14 in. 40 pages. Original leather spine and corners with gilt type on worn cloth cover....

...40 text pages. With a folding table and 7 folding maps on 6 sheets (with one extra map not called for on the ‘Maps Accompany this Report') Six long folding map pages are generally very good condition with some wear...

Joel Benton was an American writer, poet, journalist and lecturer.

2 ALS:

• To Mrs. Haight, 3 June 1864, Armenia, New York,

• To Frank Lester Pleadwell (surgeon), 7 November 1905...

4 pages, flat size: 9 x 7-1/4 inches. Agetoned paper with black border on first page. Fold separations in a few places, otherwise, good condition. Dated Library of Parliament, Ottawa, 1874. Ottawa, 6th November 1874.

Important constitutional law letter answering queries by Morris on the constitutional practices for the dissolution of the Manitoba Provincial Parliament, including reference to the British North American Act (BNAA). Alexander Morris was the second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba in 1874 when this letter was written and Manitoba was a very new provincial government when this letter was written...

Arnold Edinborough was a British-born Canadian who taught English at Queen's University and the Royal Military College in Kingston; edited the Kingston Whig-Standard and Saturday Night; been contributing editor on culture to the Financial Post; and founded the Council for Business and the Arts...

A remarkable series of 12 early autograph letters to his close friend, Douglas Eves ; 29-pages, approx. 5 x 7 inches and 60-pages 8 x 10 inches, dating from 1947 through to 1954:...

Joy Adamson was an Austrian-born writer, author and naturalist in Kenya whose bestselling book, Born Free was pivotal in changing attitudes worldwide toward the value of preserving wildlife and habitat.

This collection includes 6 items dating from 1971 to 1973 specifically, 1 Typed Letter signed (TLS), 4 photos and one signature....

...extract of a despatch from the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, relative to the disposal of the prisoners convicted of treason in that province : copies of the several acts of the Legislature of Upper Canada in the last session, for the preservation of the peace, and for the trial of persons charged with insurrection and revolt against the government of the province, stating the dates on which the several bills received the royal sanction... TPL 7489

This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "British North America Act of 1871". [34-35 Vict.] Canada. [CH.28] - 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. 2 pages. Very good+ condition.

This act gave Canada the power to establish new provinces and territories and change provincial boundaries with the affected province's consent. The Act recognized the creation of the province of Manitoba and the incorporation of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory into Canada and allowed parliament and the Ontario and Quebec legislatures to redraw the boundaries of Ontario and Quebec in order to incorporate parts of these acquisitions....

Saul Bellow was an American novelist whose characterizations of modern urban man, disaffected by society but not destroyed in spirit, earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. A playwright as well as a novelist, Saul Bellow is the author of The Last Analysis and of three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966. He has contributed fiction to Partisan Review, Playboy, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Esquire, and to literary quarterlies...

1 Letter & 1 Photo:

First edition. 7 pages. 14 x 9 inches. Nice document, Ontario Provincial red seal with blue ribbon on front page. "Province of Ontario by the Honourable Daniel Roland Michener. Provincial Secretary, To all to whom these Presents shall Come Greeting. 29th December 1947..."

Daniel Roland Michener was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, from 1967 to 1974, the 20th since Canadian Confederation....

First edition. Norman Studios bright graphics film large stone litho poster for the movie called "The Flying Ace" with an all coloured cast. Nice stone litho promotional theatre and promotional poster of 3 sheet poster printed in three sections. Multi colours one size (yellow, red brown & black) and verso blank. Printed by the Richey Litho Co. Three folded section with approximate size of 13-3/4 x 10-3/4 and unfolded 41 x 26-1/2 inches inches each section. Final full size approximately 41 x 77 inches approximately flat once assembled. Scarce....

RARE Quarto. 7 pages.

Among the 27 rules included are: "Rule No. 5 : That all polls shall be held in the open air, or in some building, not a Tavern, to which free access can be had by every Elector -- and no woman shall be allowed to vote''; "Rule No. 24 : That no man of color shall be hindered from voting, if otherwise qualified". Rare Upper Canada imprint printed by Robert Stanton (1794-1866). Open 1/4 tear in upper border not affecting any text, otherwise, very good condition...

First edition, 1840. Canadian. Quarto, 2 pages. Disbound, small holes in margin. Address to Her Majesty, on the subject of the Re-union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. [Toronto], British Colonist Office, J. Cleland printer...

Fleming UC Imprints #1488, TPL 7614