Search Results: Women from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

2009. Hard Cover. #1) Too Much HappinessMUNRO, Alice- 2009. 1st Can. printing (McClelland & Stewart/Douglas Gibson imprint)- scarce signed printing of Can. edition, with modern-styling of signature- includes press clipping with magazine review of book #2) Lives of Mothers & DaughtersMUNRO, Sheila- 2001. 1st Canadian printing (McClelland & Stewart/Douglas Gibson imprint)- scarce signed/inscribed association copy from Munro to Sheila Laidlaw-Radford, sister of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro (nee Alice Laidlaw)- book written by Sheila Munro, Alice's daughter, detailing life growing up with a mother as a writer- Sheila Laidlaw pictured in family photograph included in book (Pg. 137)- "A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and York University, Sheila Laidlaw-Radford was an accomplished print maker whose etchings explored and celebrated women's bodies. One notable work appeared on the cover for the first edition of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001). Laidlaw-Radford was… Read More

Various: Various, 1996. No binding & hard cover. Good. The collection has original material pertaining to 22 American women poets, dating from 1842-1996 a total of 63 items, specifically 30 letters, 14 pieces of ephemera, 8 typescripts / manuscripts, 8 books, and 4 photos. Includes 2 pieces from Louise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature:BATES, Charlotte Fiske (signed Charlotte Rogé; American poet and associate of Longfellow). • ALS to Mrs. Swift, 10 June 1891. Thanks Mrs. Swift for the "very sweet and heartfelt poem written for my wedding". Signed ms., split in the center, "At Philadelphia", July 4, 1876. On the left margin, Bates has written: "This is coming out in the Cong. this week, but as you will be away I give you this MS I have." The words "June Missionary Church" are written in the upper right of the sheet of paper.  This is a famous, patriotic verse poem in six stanzas separated here by horizontal lines drawn by the poet.BROWN, Alice (American novelist, poet, and… Read More

[Toronto]: [Harbourfront Reading Series], 1987. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8pp., 16 x 12 inches. This is the promotional mock-up of ALOUD - A Literary Quarterly that was supposed to be an annual quarterly published by the Harbourfront Reading Series. Due to lack of funding, this quarterly was never published. This issue was edited by Greg Gatenby and featured a cover image of Margaret Atwood as well as a two page excerpt by Atwood "Tropical Botany Cafe Con Carbon" from a "Novel in Progress." The complete two page excerpt text will be provided electronically to the buyer of this article "Novel in Progress", titled in the magazine, "Tropical Botany Cafe Con Carbon". The issue also includes articles about Kenzaburo Oe, Mario Vargas Llosa and Elizabeth Longford. Front and back covers are heavily scuffed. Good condition other than noted.Greg Gatenby from 1973-1975, was an editor at McClelland & Stewart. Since then, he has been serving as the artistic director of the Harbourfront Reading Series and the… Read More

New York: Simon Schuster, 1939. 1st, 5th issue. Hard Cover. Very Good. 1st edition, 4th printing. 4-3/4 x 7 inches. [61] p. Unpaginated. No dustjacket. Cloth tan boards with red embossed text and white envelope embossed on front cover. Black spine with white text and red symbol. Old white mark 2-1/2 x 1/4 inch along bottom of front and rear boards. Previous owner's name and March 1939 date on front end paper as well as on back end paper. Inside page clean. Overall condition very good. Address Unknown (1938), a short story written as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned to Germany in 1932. It is credited with exposing, early on, the dangers of Nazism to the American public. Kathrine Kressmann Taylor or Kressmann Taylor was an American writer, known mostly for her Address Unknown. In 1944, Columbia Pictures turned Address Unknown into a movie. She was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's… Read More

1880. No binding. Good. MOST INTERESTING AND RARE QUEEN VICTORIA PHOTO CIRCA 1880'S Very interesting and rare circa 1880's albumen photo of Queen Victoria with Princess Beatrice and Queen Victoria's her 4 dogs plus a circa 1876 Queen Victoria hand-written note photographed: Victoria, Beatrice - "Waldmann" "Fern", "Sharp" and "Noble" . Princess Beatrice, was Queen Victoria youngest child and wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944). Original albumen photo of a presumed circa 1877 Charles Burton Barber painting, with some foxing and a bit faded otherwise good condition.This photo is unusual in part because it appears to be a very similar image of Charles Burton Barber* oil on canvas painting "Queen Victoria with Princess Beatrice and a Group of Dogs (before Apr 1877)" which shows Queen Victoria seated near the Slopes at Windsor painted for the Queen from photographs. Princess Beatrice stands beside her and they are surrounded by four dogs: Waldmann, Fern, Sharp and Noble. Barber was paid £24… Read More

London: both books published by L. Hodson & Son, 22, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1860. 2 volumes in one. 9cm x 14cm, (3-5/8" x 5-5/8"), Backwoods circa 1846 iv,prelims,[1] illust.list, [9]-233pp., [1]blank, 235-242pp.; [Bound with] Oregon 1860, [6]prelims, [7]-237pp., [1]ad.Original soiled blue boards with gilt stamping on type on spine and people in a sleigh on the front cover and gilt page edges. Worn with bumped corners. Backwoods with 12 wood cut illustrations (all called for) plus Niagara Falls from the Ferry engraving at front. Oregon with the frontis image of the Mouth of the Columbia River two maps (full page and folding). Overall, very good condition. The Oregon Territory Consisting of a Brief Description of the Country and its Productions; And of the Habitats and Manners of the Native Indian Tribes. The Oregon Territory, 1860 is the second edition (first was 1846). Contains Illustration at front and map on page 64 and the fold-out on p.102. Inside the paper is clean. Overall condition… Read More

ND. 1st Edition. Photo. Good. CDV, Older Woman in full view seated pose, seated at table with book. Photographer is Thos Charles, St. Catharines, Ontario Street, ON Canada. In business from 1879-1882?M Elizabeth Charles - Mrs Thomas Charles his wife took over the business, ?-1884-1888-?

Montreal: Printed and Published by John Lovell St. Nicholas Street, 1869. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 2nd edition. Large folio (14.5"x11"). (3), [6]-86pp. 10 full-page colour plates of paintings of Canadian wild flowers (with tissue guards). Title page is also decorated with colour flowers. Text has detailed descriptions of thirty different flowers. Original green cloth boards, with gilt titles and decoration to front, blind stamped titles to rear, a little soiled. Professionally re-backed. All edges gilt. Plates V and VI are reversed in sequence. Endpapers and paste-downs are dark brown. Pages browning slightly at edges, boards darkened on front corners, a few small stains and surface scratches. Previous owners name of front end paper. For this 2nd edition book, Agnes FitzGibbon created and paid for eleven new stones at Burland L'Africain Chromolithographers, Montreal. The plates were numbered I-X, and the designs of II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII were reversed for aesthetic reasons. FitzGibbon… Read More

London: Aurthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. 25 Paternoster, 1852. 1st. Hard Cover. Good. WITHOUT PLATES, STILL A FIRST EDITION OF AN UNCOMMON TRAILL BOOK First edition. 4-1/2 x 6-7/8 inches, [6], xi [3 list of illustration], [1]-350pp., [351]-368pp appendix, 32pp ads, 1 blank. All 12 plates called for are removed. NO PLATES in this copy.Original embossed pale cloth with faded spine and gilt type on spine. , plain light yellow endpapers and gilt pager edges. Corners worn and spine top and bottom crushed with tears on spine ends and most of back spine torn along back cover. Internally the pages are clean with virtually no foxing. Good condition. Edited by Agnes Strickland.TPL 3316 Written after The Backwoods of Canada (1836), it is her second Canadian book. "Agnes made a contract with a London publisher, Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, for Catharine's children's story Canadian Crusoes: a tale of the Rice Lake plains (1852), in which three young offspring of pioneers heroically survive two years on their own… Read More

1944. No binding. COLETTE WAS GIVEN A STATE FUNERAL IN FRANCEColette Willy was of the most famous of modern French writers and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She wrote over 50 novels including Gigi (1944), and "Cheri" (1920) She was also a mime, an actress, and a journalist. Colette was married three times and her first husband, Henri Gauthier-Villars was a journalist writing under the name of "Willy". Colette was elected to the Belgian Royal Academy (1935), first woman president of the Académie Goncourt (1945, and President in 1949), and a Chevalier (1920) and Grand Officer (1953) of the Légion d'honneur. Colette died on 3 August 1954 in her apartment in the Palais-Royal, aged 81. She was given a state funeral.Colette Willy was included in "The 100 Most Influential Woman of All Time" 2010 edited by Kathleen Kuiper, p220This most interesting and scarce Colette ephemera archive contains 7 items dating early 1900's to 1944 specifically, 5 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS), one… Read More

Toronto: William Briggs, 1905. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition. 4-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches., 3 printed plates (Dufferin 3pp letter, Crawford manuscript example and tissue guarded portrait plate), (2), 309pp., original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and perimeter gilt rules. New endpapers. Cover a little marked and a dent in the top board, otherwise in very good condition. 86 poems. With introduction by Ethelwyn Wetherald, Author of The House of the Trees, Tangled in Stars, The Radiant Road, etc., etc. This volume contains 86 poems of superior merit of which 52 appear for the first time in book form. Collected in Books I. through IV. which are: Book I.; Book II.; Blank Verse; and finally Dialect Verse. Contents pages are followed by a Page of Manuscript in Facsimile.

Toronto: The Rose Publishing Company, 1886. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. First edition. 8.5 x 5.5 inches,. (5), [3]-135 pages, frontis of author, many b/w illustrations, text in two columns; brown cloth, beveled edges/gilt titles. Gilt decorate cover extremities quite worn, soiling internally end papers spotted. Fair condition. An uncommon novel.This was Sheppard's first book, a fiction, "Dolly," which appeared first in serial form in the Toronto "News" Sheppard started the famous Canadian Magazine "Saturday Night" in 1887. Sheppard's magazine began as a broadsheet that kept its readers up to date on current events, Toronto's upper crust and what books to read. Originally called Toronto Saturday Night. One key to Sheppard's (Toronto) Saturday Night success was the uncommon focus and attention paid to Women and Women's issues.

2009. Hard & Soft cover. THE QUEEN OF ROMANCE FICTION, A HOLLYWOOD ICON OF THE 1920s Elinor Glyn was an English author, journalist and screen writer and best known for Three Weeks (1907) a steamy romance novel which was shocking for its time. She specialised in romantic fiction which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. Her vibrant romances dealt with aristocracy and issues of morality in society. She popularized the concept of the It-girl and had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and, possibly, on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and, especially, Clara Bow.This large collection contains 168 items dating from 1902 to 2009, specifically, 60 Ephemera and archives, 103 Books and 5 Books about Elinor Glyn and related material. 60 Ephemera and archives:• Autograph page from a guest book signed by Glyn, Margot Glyn (her daughter), and others, 1-3 August 1912.• "The… Read More

Various: Various, 1937. No binding & hard cover. The collection has 10 items dating from 1870 to 1937, specifically, 2 books, 4 letters, 2 post cards, 1 photo, 1 carte de visite, and 1 label with an address. The collection pertains to both von Arnim and her second husband, John Francis Stanley Russell, the 2nd Earl Russell (known as Frank Russell). Born in Sydney, Australia, Elizabeth von Arnim was an English novelist, a writer of semi-autobiographical memoirs, and a cousin of the writer Katherine Mansfield. In 1891 she married a German aristocrat, Count Henning August von Arnim Schlagenthin (1851-1910). The couple had five children together. Her literary career blossomed when she wrote Elizabeth and Her Garden in 1898. After her husband's death, she lived in England, Switzerland, France, and the United States. She was a mistress of H.G. Wells between 1910 and 1913 and married Frank Russell, the brother of Bertrand Russell, in 1916. A pre-cursor to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, her novel, Vera, is… Read More

1971. No binding & hard cover. Good. 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.3 Letters:• ALS to Gladys Balder (?), 6 January ?, re the Sea Island "is a dream of Beauty", cannot go there during the winter, Isaac Wick was there last year. • TLS from Maxwell Droke Publishers, 29 December 1937, re her favorite anecdote; ALS reply on verso from Baldwin re an amusing story about Fannie Hurst living in Brooklyn, having four children, and spending "money like a drunken sailor". 1 Signed Typescript:• Signed ts., "Any Village", 1 p., n.d. but circa 1971 when the… Read More

1966. No binding & hard cover. Good. 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.11 Frances Parkinson Keyes letters and 2 photos:11 letters:• ALS to Mrs. Bugdee, 4 March 1927, with envelope, regretting that her ignorance of Mrs. Bugdee's change of address had prevented their meeting. • TLS to T. Brennan, 8 August 1941, replying to his cordial note of… Read More

1835. No binding. Very Good. Signature and date: "Harriet Martineau / Febry 16th, 1835" on a small piece of paper 2-1/2 x 3-3/4 inches. A number of pin holes and corner tear, otherwise very good condition. Harriet Martineau was a British social theorist and Whig writer often cited as the rst female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective; she also translated various works from Auguste Comte. She earned enough to be supported entirely by her writing, a rare feat for a woman In the Victorian era.

London: Bickers & Sons, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Beautiful custom made red leather covers for school prize with King's Hall Compton and Keep Troth - Make Good gilt embossed logo on the front cover. Some darker spots on spine and bottom left of front cover. Gilt edged paper edges. Inside a King's Hall Compton, PQ. presentation bookplate on marbled end papers noting this book a prize for Elocution, dated 1917. Marbled end papers and inside page are very clean and in near-fine condition.5 x 7-1/4 inches. (12),3-299pp.(1). 11 unnumbered leaves of illustrated plates by Henry Ospovat, illustrator. A very nice attractive custom bound "Heroines of Poetry" book in overall near-fine condition with interesting provenance relating to King's Hall (Compton, Quebec). 10 stories contents:• Maid of the swan-skin (William Morris)• The fair maid of Astolat (Mallory)• Sâvitrî the faithful wife (Edwin Arnold)• The peasant maid (Longfellow)• The little duchess (Browning)• A hero's mother… Read More

London: printed for J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1769. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Set in Canada, it is considered to be the first Canadian novel.First edition. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. [vii], [1], 240; [2], 240; [4], 223, [1]; [4], 213, [1]. Lacking leaf L1 (pp. 217-8) in vol. 1 (but with a photocopy of the missing text supplied), and also the half titles in each volume; C6 (pp. 35-6) loose in volume III (secured in place with an old pin); short tear in H1 in volume IV (no loss), and final leaf K11 with a more serious tear, affecting the text but without loss. Good condition overall. Marbled paper boards, quarter calf, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, spines chipped at tops and bottoms, morocco labels. Manuscript notes (2 pp.) in an early hand on the endpapers to vol. Manuscript is about the province of Quebec, "according to an acct. taken by General Murray in 1765", noting its agriculture and its progress in exporting 'corn, timber, fish, skins, leather, furs &c". Later inscription of W.M. Stawell, and… Read More

[Hanover, ON]: Self-published, 1947. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition. 5-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches. (6),[7]-298pp. Red cloth covers with dull gilt on spine and front cover, sunned on bottom front cover 1/2 inch, otherwise very good condition. No dust jacket. Old newspaper clippings (about Hahn's death and shows a photo of her) affixed to front end paper.Illustrated with 12 b&w photographs. A very nice collectable local historical book of a small Ontario town (Hanover, in Grey County).Scarce inscribed and signed by the author "With the kindest regards of the Author, Josephine Elizabeth Hahn. Previous owner name, "Mrs. C.J. Halliday" neatly written on the front fly leaf above inscription..