Literature from Gilt Edge Books

Toronto, Ontario: Key Porter Books Limited, 1997 Barry Lopez's story shows how one man comes to experience the wonderous power of animals and to understand his place in the natural world in a new way. Tom Pohrt's watercolor illustrations add vivid dimension to the story, bringing to life the land, people and animals the young man encounters on his journey… Read more

Toronto: Reginald Saunders, 1945. Author's third novel. A novel by the same author that gave us "The Three Bamboos". etc. This book is a story of a business scandal, of love and conflict and patriotism, told in a highly entertaining way and laid in contemporary China. In his earlier novels Robert Standish has shown that he understands the Japanese as… Read more

London: J M Dent and Sons Limited, 1969. An abridgment of the edition published in the U.S. by Doubleday & Co Inc 1968. This is the romantic life story of Robert Louis Stevenson and the talented and remarkable woman Fanny, who became his wife. She was ten years older than Stevenson, an American with a husband and two children when… Read more

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. The offices, penthouses and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from 1930's to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it takes. The author examines the many faces of ambition and desire that rule both the schemers… Read more

New York: Scribner, 1996. Complete number line. The green accordion travels from hand to hand over a hundred-year period, plays the music of many different ethnic groups. The story of the fictional accordion maker is set into a fictionalized account based on March 1891 articles in the New Orleans paper the Daily Picayune, of the real 1891 lynching of… Read more

Toronto: A Douglas Gibson Book. McClelland & Stewart, 1996. As close to an autobiography as we can ever expect, this collection of reminiscences, speeches, book reviews, paradies, and essays tells us a great deal about the writer and the man. The introductions to each of the twenty-four chapters add further biographical details, followed by tantalizing fragments from Davies own… Read more

Dodd,Mead & Company, 1920. 1920 to title page. Copyright 1919. Frontispiece: Photo titled - Marshall's Chalet in Switzerland. The contents provide: (1) Kencote, (2) The Terrors, (3) The Son of Service, (4) In That State of Life,(5) The Builder, (6) The Little Squire, (8) Audacious Ann, (8) The Bookkeeper, (9) The Squire and The War. Decorated spine. A… Read more

London: Cambridge University Press, 1945. 1945 to title page and copyright page. Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Pepys on semi-gloss stock. A list of illustrations provided, all present and in excellent condition. Preface by Arthur Bryant, followed by a shortened pedigree of Samuel Pepys to illustrate the relationship referred to in this volume.… Read more

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1962. November 1962. BOMC Edition. Translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and William L. Grossman. The story is set in the year 1925 in Ilheus, Brazil.... it was the year Gabriela moved in from the backlands, one of a flock of dirty, bedraggled migrant workers - but what a girl she turned… Read more

London: Readers Union/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. Orignally published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967. The contents of this biography is divided into two parts. Part one - Piers Court covers: First Love, Social Occasions, A Family Friendship, The Real Mr. Pinfold, and Income Tax. Part two - Combe Florey covers: Visits To Somerset, Letters and Postcards and a Last… Read more

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. The author of The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, The Berlin Diary, etc. now gives us his last book Love and Hatred being the stormy marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy. It is a touching brilliant biography of one of literary history's most famous… Read more

New York: E.P Dutton and Company, Inc Copyright 1943. Taps For Private Tussie - Winner of the 1943 Thomas Jefferson Southern Award. " What Bret Harte was to the Outcasts of Poker Flat, and Joel Chandler Harris to the Plantation Negro, Jesse Stuart is to the folk of the Kentucky Mountains." in part by Ralph Thomson. Perhaps no… Read more

Toronto: Morang & Co: Limited, 1904. Traffics and Discoveries is a book of adult short stories. Some of them being: The Captive - The Bonds of Discipline - A Sahibs' War - Their Lawful Occasions Part One and Part Two - The Comprehension of Private Copper - Steam Tactics, etc. A poem is written before each separate story. Rudyard Kipling… Read more

Toronto: Viking, 1994. For more years than Alan Maitland probably cares to count, CBC Radio listeners have enjoyed the inimitate warmth and charm of "Fireside Al," Canada's best loved storyteller. Now, for the first time, Fireside Al's favourite winter stories have been collected in book form, offering fans of all ages a chance to put their feet up, sip some… Read more

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1939. One title of Mary Frances Doner's books known as her "Great Lakes" novels. These novels focused on the people who sailed the freight and passenger ships on the lakes, their ambitions and joy in their work and the drama of storms and accidents; on the wives and girlfriends and the children who awaited them… Read more

London: Chatto & Windus., 1946. "The Living Novel" consists of thirty-two essays of which the first twenty-one are concerned with English novels - or more precisely, novels written in English - in historical perspective, beginning with Fielding and Richardson and ending with Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane. Of the remainder, one is devoted to the Italian Giovanni Verga, four to… Read more

New York: Samuel French Inc, 1966. Stapled card covers. 93 printed pages cover the three acts followed with the property plot for each act, scene designs and ads for "Never Too Late" - "A Thurber Carnival" - "Come Blow Your Horn" and "A Thousand Clowns". A sound ,most servicable copy of this play. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Michael Joseph, 1938. The desired British Edition. Author of that wonderful book (and film) The Poseidon Adventure - The Snow Goose - Thomasina, etc has given us The Steadfast Man. Paul Gallico takes his reader between and behind the lines of the scarce writings attributed to the Saint and, through story and legend, brings to life the human and… Read more

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1950. This Welsh author of How Green Was My Valley once again provides the reader with a very good read. Richard Llewellyn has written a magnificent novel, mixing his warm love for humanity with great story-telling power, giving us an entirely new setting and new ingredients. Ffep carries a Christmas sticker to front and… Read more

New York: The Viking Press, 1930. All three printings same date and month June 1930. Title print to front board and spine remain bright. The contents page lists thirteen short stories : The Sexes -- Mr Durant -- Just A Little One -- New To Detroit -- The Wonderful Old Gentleman -- The Mantle of Whistler, etc. This American… Read more