Susan Cheever is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, literary historian, teacher, and biographer. Cheever was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. She graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University. Her father was a celebrated American novelist and short story writer.

This collection contains approximately 44 pieces with about 150 pages dating from the 1950's to 1977...

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The Red Army 25th Anniversary dinner was held at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, 22 February 1943, under the auspices of the magazine Soviet Russia Today. Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Edgar Lee Masters agree to sponsor the dinner.

This collection contains 8 items in total dated all 1943, specifically 3 Typed carbon letters, 3 telegrams, 1 B&w photo and 1 magazine....

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Price: $600 USD or $775 Cdn #7748

Austin Alfred was an English critic, novelist and political journalist and appointed UK Poet Laureate in 1896.

"He was included in a famous anthology of bad poetry, but the kind view is that at his best he was ‘a true but not a great poet." quoted from The Thoresby Society, The Leeds Library.

The collection contains 17 items in total: 2 signed manuscripts of poems; 13 Autographed Letters Signed and 3 Ephemera all covering time from 1895 to 1910....

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William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, poet, novelist, biographer of presidents, a founding editor of the Book of the Month Club, “the Sage of Emporia”). He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 1947 White posthumously won his second Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Autobiography of William Allen White".

This collection includes 23 items dating from 1916 to 1943, specifically 22 typed letters signed (TLS), 2 photos, 2 Ephemera and 1 book. Included are 7 TLS, 1 ALS, 1 signed inscribed photo from White to Edna Ferber a very close family friend for 30 years and 1 signed envelope....

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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 23 items dating from 1901 to 1946, specifically, 1 Manuscript, 14 Autographed Signed Letters (ALS), 1 Medallion, 2 Photos, 1 Bookmark, 1 Indenture, and 1 Book signed....

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1996. Wiarton, Red House Press

First edition. Uncommon book. 9-1/4 x 10 inches. (4)-[5]-243pp

Illustrations (some Colored), maps included. Descriptions and photos of historic houses in various Grey County townships as well as Clarksburg, Durham, Flesherton, Hanover, Markdale, Meaford, Owen Sound, etc. Includes bibliographical references on p. 240-243.

Condition: Near fine / fine ...

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Price: $60 USD or $75 Cdn #0689

1884.London, T. Nelson and Sons

First edition, 2nd printing. 5” x 7 1/2”, viii, [9]-319pp., Frontispiece illustration, plus 32 engravings distributed throughout the book. Rebacked, original red cloth with black type on spine and front with gilt title on spine. Cloth soiled and spotting to a number of areas. Original flowered end papers with back cover end paper having some red smudges at bottom primarily from cover dye. Previous owner’s name with 1887 date neatly written on back of frontis. Inside pages with some sporadic spotting but generally clean. Overall condition is very good-....

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Price: $40 USD or $50 Cdn #0582

1864.[Washington, DC] US Senate and House of Representatives

Two Civil War Senate Reports bound together;

1) 38th Congress, 1st Session, Report Committee No.63, Fort Pillow Massacre, 128pp; and,

2) 38th Congress, 1st Session, Report Committee No. 68, Returned Prisoners, 34pp plus 4 pages (2 images per page) of illustrations of returned prisoners...

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Price: $35 USD or $45 Cdn #1143

[1926]. Plymouth, William Brendon

First edition. 4to. 8-3/8 x 11-1/8 inches. 6 p. leaves, iv, 212pp; 213 unnumbered.

Original simulated leather boards with gilt type on spine and embossed royal coats of arms crest bookplate of Sir Less Knowles, in gilt to front board with corners bumped and one worn and internally very clean, otherwise, near fine condition.

103 tissue-protected b/w plates. Black and white illustration of Wolfe frontispiece;...

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Price: $65 USD or $80 Cdn #0506

1900. London, ON, London Printing

2nd edition. 9 x 11-1/2 inches, (8 plus folded map), [9]-180 pp. Canada. Many black and white photos, the history of the town from early days including pictures of Governors Elgin and Simcoe, pages from Major Littlehales Diary, copies of plans for the future development of the land in and around London, Ontario. The back contains a list of all the illustrations...

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Price: $50 USD or $60 Cdn #0006

Autographed document signed. 7-1/4 x 9 inches 1 page 2 sided, Legislative Council Chamber. 26 January 1846. Instructing members of the legislature to attend the next session. Signed "John C. Haliburton"...

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Price: $30 USD or $35 Cdn #1847

Flat: 40cm x 31cm Folded: 13cm x 8 cm Mailed from J. Lambert to Alexander Davison [1750 - 1829] Interesting 2 page letter mailed c1800 to Alexander Davison who was the executor for the late Robert Lisle, Acton House. Lambert is asking Alexander for costs incurred relating to Lisle and the Lisle estate....

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Price: $125 USD or $160 Cdn #2651

Letter (duplicate) dated December 21, 1835 signed by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) to a British Rear Admiral (in Rio de Janeiro) about a midshipman had drowned.  Written while Barrow was secretary of the admiralty. He was founder of the Royal Geographic Society, was a great promoter of Arctic exploration and wrote much on his own explorations and travels. ...

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Price: $95 USD or $120 Cdn #2801

Autograph letter signed. Dated Bawley, October 9th [1852]. Two pages, flat 6 x 7-1/2 inches folded once to 6 x 3-3/4 inches, very good condition....

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Price: $125 USD or $160 Cdn #4459

QUITE SCARCE EDINBURG SEPTEMBER 1759 EDITION OF ST. LAWRENCE

[1759]. Copper plate engraving. 7.5 x 10 inches.

This is the region where the epic Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Battle of Quebec) was fought in Canada during the French & Indian War. Great display map of the French & Indian War region where the major battle of the War, the Taking of Québec was fought that same month, September 1759 as when this map was published in the Scots Magazine....

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Price: $175 USD or $225 Cdn #2202

[1827] Milan

Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.

Image size: 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches.

Condition: very good. The Nuu-chaf-nulth (Nootka) People have occupied the Nootka Sound for over 4,000 years and their name means the People of all along the Mountains or for short the West Coast People...

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Price: $70 USD or $90 Cdn #1503

Height: 32.75 in. (83.18 cm)   

Width: 20.5 in. (52.07 cm)

ARTIST’S NAME: Burns, Cooper, Hyde. Stratford Festival.

Run 7,500 April 1985 (bottom left)

Photograph by Michael Cooper (bottom right)...

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Price: $150 USD or $195 Cdn #2630

1857. 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 and two 1/8 inch holes at top, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail... William Hoar of the Township of Penetanguishene in the County of Simcoe, ...

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Price: $150 USD or $195 Cdn #3116

An early Lord Beaverbrook small (5 x 6.5 inches) letterhead note paper with Lord Beaverbrook signature. He was granted a peerage in 1917 as the 1st Baron Beaverbrook, the name "Beaverbrook" being adopted from a small community near his boyhood home. The note is dated 17, July, 1923...

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Price: $95 USD or $120 Cdn #3142

43 issues from 1814 War of 1812 New England Palladium, Boston, newspapers. About 40% with some written content descriptions, virtually all with some War of 1812 related content. The papers are in only fair condition, heavy rag paper with foxing and tears....

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Price: $225 USD or $290 Cdn #3287