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; 2 cancelled signed checks (Lillian E. Robertson, Grey’s cousin by marriage and illustrator of his many books; the other to Jess Smith, Grey’s guide who married Robertson, $1,000 as a wedding gift from Grey); etc etc Approximately 238 pp.

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The Huxley family is a notable British family. Several family members have excelled in science, medicine, arts, and literature. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), the patriarch of the family, was a zoologist, comparative anatomist, and friend of Charles Darwin. His grandsons include Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the novelist and author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, and his brother, Sir Julian S. Huxley, (1987-1975), a biologist, eugenicist, and the first director of UNESCO. Sir Julian’s wife was Lady Juliette Huxley (1896–1994, née Mairie Juliette Baillot), a Swiss-French sculptor and writer. Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor, best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard which were based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.

The collection contains 32 items dating from 1881 to 1989, specifically 23 letters, 2 booklets, 1 post card, 1 photo, 2 books, 1 typescript, and 1 telegram.

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Price: $1,685 USD or $2,225 Cdn #8329

Dame Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She never married, but in 1927 she allegedly fell in love with the gay Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew (see the card below inviting Burnett to see his last portrait).

The collection contains 30 items dating from 1937 to 1966 specifically, 28 letters, 1 typed statement and 1 autograph on note..

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Faith Baldwin was a U.S. author of romance and fiction, publishing some 100 novels, often concentrating on women. The New York Times wrote that her books had "never a pretense at literary significance" and were popular because they "enabled lonely working people, young and old, to identify with her glamorous and wealthy characters.

The collection has 17 item dating from 1913 to 1971, specifically 8 cards, 3 letters, 2 photos, 1 typescript, 1 designed custom postal order, and 2 books.

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Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, lawyer. After the Clemens family moved to Hartford in 1871, Warner and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) became friends, and collaborated on The Gilded Age (1873–74). It is for his share in this book, the first novel by either writer, that Warner is now best remembered. Warner was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-7) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted "The Editor's Drawer" until 1892, when he took charge of "The Editor's Study." He died in Hartford on the 20th of October 1900.

The collection consists of 16 items in total dating from 1863 to 1894, specifically, 10 letters, 5 signatures on cards or paper, and 1 book..

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Price: $1,180 USD or $1,550 Cdn #8145

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.

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Price: $1,125 USD or $1,485 Cdn #8233

Frances Parkinson Keyes was a prolific American biographer and novelist whose novels were set in New England, Louisiana, and Europe. In 1904 she married Henry Wilder Keyes (1863-1938), a Republican politician who served as Governor of New Hampshire (1917-1919) and as a United States Senator (1919-1937). A convert to Roman Catholicism, she often used Catholic themes in her work.

The Frances Parkinson Keyes collection consists of 58 items dating from 1917 to 1968, specifically, 11 letters written by Frances Parkinson Keyes and 2 photos of her. In addition, there are 9 letters written by her husband, Henry (Harry) Wilder Keyes and a composite photo of him with other politicians. Also 35 books...

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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh was a prolific English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries, best known for the recurring character of Chief Inspector Wexford. She also wrote more than a dozen novels under the pseudonym of Barbara Vine.

The collection is comprised 21 items dating from 1984 to 1992, specifically, 11 books, 3 letters, 4 commemorative envelopes, 1 note, 1 photo, and 1 typescript excerpt.

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QUITE RARE POETRY BOOK BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN WOMAN

1st edition. 1881. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin

3-1/2 x 5-3/8 inches. iv, (2), [3]-317pp. Worn original green cloth with embossed design and gilt logos and type on front and spine. Previous owners names and dates on front endpaper. Good condition. A collection of poetry, Under the Olive, which included the poem "Not by will, and not in striving": Published anonymously, this volume contains 19 verses written in classical meter on subjects such as Achilles, Sophocles, and Pandora. The book was well received. Harriet Beecher Stowe, a close friend of Fields, was happy for the book’s reception, but she thought that Fields’ charity work had a “higher beauty.” .

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Price: $600 USD or $790 Cdn #8811

5-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches. Rustic green cloth book bound with rare two titles; Both titles, quite scarce to rare.

#1) The Law of 1863 relating to Roman Catholic separate schools in Upper Canada : together with extracts from the Common School Acts, departmental regulations, &c., affecting the Roman Catholic separate schools

#2) Ontario and Manitoba. Anonymous, written by "A Canadian who has visited Manitoba to Discover the Truth" 1872 (date from LAC). [Toronto, Publisher not stated], 16pp., Pamphlet on the North West Rebellion. A Métis uprising led to the formation of Manitoba in 1870.

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Price: $500 USD or $660 Cdn #8607

1803. London, Printed by T. Davison,

2 vols. First edition. 9-3/4 x 11 inches. xxxvi, 489 pp, [3]; vii, [1], 642, [32] pp. Bound in newer full brown cloth, leather labels, new endpapers. The errata leaf at the rear of vol. 1. Lacking the frontispiece of Gaunt in vol. 2 and the half title in that volume, otherwise complete with the two engravings of Chaucer and the index and list of “valuable books” published by Phillips at the rear of vol. 2. . Godwin’s signature and several words in his hand on a label affixed to the front free endpaper of vol. 2...

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Price: $975 USD or $1,285 Cdn #8998

IMPORTANT EARLY CANADA EMIGRATION BOOK WITH RARE MAP

1834. London, William Blackwood

2nd edition.4 x 6-1/2 inches. [iii]-xvi, 426pp.[1], plus folding map in front pocket.19th-century polished calf, gilt, spine gilt extra, leather label stamped in gilt. Minor soiling, corners worn. Contemporary bookplate. Internally clean. Map backed on linen. Bottom birder small tear on p.413 not to text, other wise, very good condition.

2nd (and best) Edition containing Notes of a Second Visit, made in 1833 with additional "notes made during a second visit to Canada in MDCCCXXXIII." and includes a large map which was not in the 1833 first edition of only 379pp.

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Price: $750 USD or $990 Cdn #8696

QUITE RARE JUDAICA BOOK

1857. Leipzig, Oskar Leiner

First edition. Israelite People's Library. V. German = American sketches for Jewish emigrants and non-emigrants. Text in German.

(2),[3]-108pp, 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. Original printed blue boards and paper over spine almost worn away. Exlibris book....Overall condition is fair.

Anonymous 1857 book of Jewish emigration to the United States. It describes the experiences of a German Jew who arrived in America in 1853. Provides unusual data about New York Jewry as well as a stimulating, critical - albeit in some parts prejudiced - view of it.

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Price: $600 USD or $790 Cdn #8649

1826. Paris, Audot, libraire, éditeur.

Première édition. Four volumes. 4-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches. viii, 331, [1] pp.; [4], 360 pp.; [4], 364, [2)] pp.; and [6], 330, 31, [1] pp. All text in French. In original paper wrappers (vol. 4 also has a glassine wrapper). Good condition.

A labour of love dedicated to the pleasures one can have in the countryside, from games to gardening, from natural sciences, to astronomy, to sport, containing the description of all the games which can add to the enjoyment of gardens, family and village festivals. Including natural history,..

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Price: $900 USD or $1,185 Cdn #8997

RARE BOOK - NO OTHER COPY FOUND 

1869.Toronto, W. C. Chewett and Co.

First Edition, rare. The Evangelist: Selected and Arranged by Douglas Russell and G. C. Needham. Toronto: Published for the Compilers by W. C. Chewett and Co., 1869.

Faded brown cloth hardcover, 3 x 4-1/2 inches, page edges dyed light red, (4) 186 pp. 221 hymns, text only, including an 8pp. index of first lines. Pencil note on ffep: "Purchased on board the propeller Enterprise, between Port Dalhouse and Toronto Aug. 25th, 1869." Very good condition.

A note at the beginning of the book says that the compilers felt the need for a hymnal that would be suitable for their "evangelistic labours." Likely only a limited run was printed for them, and sold at their meetings.

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Price: $500 USD or $660 Cdn #8697

SEVEN YEARS’ WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK

1756. [France] chez Duchesne, libraire

First edition, 12mo: xlvii, [1], 352pp. (p. 120 misnumbered 012). Errata: pp. xlv-xlvii. Also with several cancellanda and cancellantia. Undoubtedly printed in France and not in Amsterdam. Brown calf with rubbing.... Good condition.

This scarce work, presented in the form of an epistolary novel (a series of eighteen letters dated from July to September 1756), was written at the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War...To preserve peace in Europe, the author advocated a balance of power, the avoidance of conflict in the French and British colonies, freedom of the seas, and the promotion of trade and commerce...

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Price: $675 USD or $890 Cdn #8640

1836-37. London, Published by Edward Moxon

First editions. 6 Volumes (vols. 1 & 2) 1836 and (vols. 3-6) 1837 for the 1st Moxon published edition. 4-1/2 x 7 inches. Vol.1 (3),vi-313pp,(5) ; Vol.2 (5),v-351pp,(1) ; Vol.3 (5),vi-355pp,(1) ; Vol.4 (4),vi-364pp, ; Vol.5 (4),vi-412pp ; Vol.6 (8),x-374pp.(2)

In 1835 Wordsworth changed publishers from Longmans to his friend, Edward Moxon (1801-58) who would continue be Wordsworth's publisher.

Moxon and the Wordsworth family issued a new collective edition of his works, in 6 volumes. This was in to head off the copyright expiration in 1857, on the first collective edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works, the two-volume edition of 1815...

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Price: $375 USD or $495 Cdn #8814

Scarce handwritten legal document, 6pp, 8 x 10 inches, tied with red ribbon upper left, Tryon County, New York, filed 21 May 1775 (March term in the fifteenth year of the Reign of King George the Third).

Legal document relating to a debt, signed W. Butler - one of the lawyers.

Walter Butler (1752-81) Loyalist who became a captain in Butler's Rangers, formed by his father, John. In May, 1775, Walter and John Butler left Tryon County for Canada in the company of Daniel Claus, Walter Butler, Hon Yost Schuyler and Joseph Brant...

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Price: $350 USD or $460 Cdn #4194

QUITE SCARCE 1835 (5TH STATE] EDITION OF THIS UPPER CANADA MAP

Linen-backed and folding wall map. Full title: A Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c. with the Countries Adjacent from Quebec to Lake Huron, compiled from original documents in the Surveyor General’s Office.

Binding: Folded and housed in the publisher’s original cloth case 4-5/8 x 8-1/4 inches with paper labels. Folded linen-backed map: Flat; 36 x 23-1/4 x 23-1/2 inches. Folded; 5-1/8 x 8 inches. Very good condition

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Price: $950 USD or $1,255 Cdn #8741

1744. [Paris], First edition, second state. Early copper engraved map of Quebec City. The map shows the area around the Quebec City basin, from Cap au Diamant in the west to Île d'Orléans in the east. Includes index and relief shown by hachures. With 7 specific locations identified by a key below distance scale found at top right, the top half of a large compass rose is seen at bottom edge, fleur-de-lys and rhumb lines adding a unique and dramatic visual appeal to the map.

Paper flat size: 11 x 7-7/8 inches to neat-lines with right border imprint #13 sideways...

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Price: $150 USD or $195 Cdn #8616

SCARCE EARLY VIEW OF MONTREAL

1830. Montreal, Adolphus Bourne

First edition. Paper: 14-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Image: 13-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches. Early hand-coloured stipple and line copperplate engraving on wove paper... Professional conservation of this print was done including removing old repairs, washed, light bleaching and any fragments reattached. Condition now considered very good, brighter and much cleaner.

The Montreal and Quebec series of prints are said to be the most handsome series published in Canada demonstrating the maturity achieved in pictorial printmaking in Canada during the first half of the 19th century. These engravings are considered to be quite scarce and sought after. deVolpi 22; Spendlove p. 62 & pl. 90

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Price: $900 USD or $1,185 Cdn #8003

ENGLISH "UPPER CANADA" & FRENCH "LOWER CANADA" CREATED

1791. London, Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan

First edition. 1791. Folio (11-1/2 inches). General title leaf imprint from series t.p., 28 pages [1269]-1296. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headpiece ornament, and decorative initial. Text in black letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Very good. TPL 629

This was a first step towards Canadian Confederation. The Constitutional Act also called Canada Act, reformed the government of the Province of Quebec from what had been outlined by the Quebec Act in 1774...The ACT divided Quebec into two provinces: the predominantly English-speaking western region of Upper Canada and the eastern French-speaking region of Lower Canada.

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1926. [Florida], Norman Studios

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.

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Price: $1,000 USD or $1,320 Cdn #8600

LIST OF 885 PERSONS CHARGED WITH TREASON IN UPPER CANADA

1838.[London], [HMSO]

Canada. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 8 May 1838 ; - for, Return of the Names and Quality or Station of the several Persons arrested in Upper Canada, and placed in Confinement in the Prisons in Toronto, and other Places in the Province, on a charge of Insurrection or Treason; the Dates of their Arrest and Discharge; and if Tried, whiter by Court Martial or Civil Courts, with the Result of such Trials severally; also, the Number in Prison at the time of the last Despatch, "Colonial Office ... James Stephen." TPL 2149

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A Typed Letter Signed (TLS) dated, Ottawa, Feb. 2, 1929 from Adam Shortt to Professor J.P. Pritchard, Professor at Queen's University regarding the Choice of the Capital of Canada 1839-41 (Kingston Capital of Canada) with a stapled 2 page TLS response to Professor Pritchard's questions by Adam Shortt

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Price: $100 USD or $130 Cdn #8646