Search Results: Authors starting with F from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

ND. No binding. 3 x 1-1/2 inch card, autograph on ink. Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, KCMG (was a Canadian academic and bible scholar. In 1907 he became president of the University of Toronto. He sought to maximise the independence of the university, battling unsuccessfully to retain German faculty members in 1914. Nonetheless he was knighted in 1917 for his advocacy of wartime recruitment. Falconer wrote several books on current affairs, including The German Tragedy and its Meaning for Canada (1915), Idealism in National Character (1920) and The United States as a Neighbour (1926). Yale University, Honorary Doctorate (1922) President of the Royal Society of Canada (1931-1932).

ND. No binding. Signature cut from a 10-1/2 x 2-1/4 inch vellum document of General Henry Fane, no date, General Sir Henry Fane GCB commanded brigades under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington during several battles during the Peninsular War, and served both as a member of Parliament and Commander-in-Chief of India..

Quebec: Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils, 1840. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 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. Xlibris with small stamp on back of title page only markings. Very good+ condition.Full title: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de QuébecThe 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… Read More

Quebec: Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils 1840 Imprimerie de Middleton & Dawson 1838, 1840. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. IMPORTANT AND EARLY HISTORY OF QUEBEC FROM 1749 TO 1760First edition. 2 volumes in one: 155pp. & 207pp. Text in French. Rebacked 3/4 calf, original marbled boards, new eps. Title in gilt on spine. Bottom corners lightly worn. Book condition: Very Good + Edition.#1: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de Québec, 155pp. 1840, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils. First edition. (various pagings), ii, 7, 14, 32, 36, 24, 8, 8, 29. Collection of eight reports or relations each one having their own pagination. "The first three Memoirs are published according to the Manuscripts Lord Durham had obtained from the Archives of the Bureau of the Navy at Paris, at the moment when his lordship was on… Read More

Various: Various, 1900. No binding & hard cover. Good. Edgar Fawcett was a prolific American novelist, essayist, and poet. His best-known novels were satirical studies of New York high society. Fawcett also wrote numerous works for children. Collection contains 6 items dating from 1888 to [1900], specifically 3 Autographed Signed Letters (ASL), 1 typescript (ts) of a play, 1 inscribed book and 1 signed note,3 Autographed Signed Letters (ASL)• ALS to Mr. Clemens (Samuel Clemens? i.e. Mark Twain?), 20 June [1898-1900], re Arthur T. Vance, editor of the Women's Home Companion, might publish one of his short stories ("Love, the Leveller") for $50, "Flowers on a Grave" considered to be too sombre. • ALS addressed "Dear Sir" (a publisher), 7 December [1898-1900], re publication of his poem, "Pride of Nations". • ALS addressed "Dear Sir", Monday, n.d., Union Club letterhead, asking for a copy of the journal published 4 years ago containing his biography. 1 Typescript (Ts)., • "The Unpardonable… Read More

London: William Blackwood, 1834. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. IMPORTANT EARLY CANADA EMIGRATION BOOK WITH RARE MAP 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.This large map, 15-1/2 x 26 inches, is now rare itself. It is titled "Map of the British North American Provinces and Adjoining States 1833". Published as the Act directs by W[illiam]. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1833. Includes a reference legend for 38 counties in Lower Canada as well as smaller legend for 19 Townships in… Read More

Florence, Italy: Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, 1826. 1st Edition. No binding. Prints from "Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, della milizia, della religione..." and produced in Florence, Italy.#1 Title: "Case Canadiane" (House in Canada) Dimensions: Sheet 23cm x 14cm Print 17cm x 10,5cm Condition: small and light damp stains on the borders otherwise very good#2 Title: "Iterno di una abitazione di Nutka" Canada - Nuu-chah-nulthDimensions: Sheet 23cm x 14cm Print 17cm x 10,5cm Condition: Small and light damp stains otherwise very good.#3 Title: "Esterno delle abitazioni di Nutka" Canada - Nuu-chah-nulthDimensions: Sheet 23cm x 14cm Print 17cm x 10,5cm Condition: Small and light damp stains otherwise very good#4 Title: "Eschimo del Nord-ovest della Baja d'Hudson" (Hudson Bay - Canada)Dimensions: Sheet 23cm x 14cm Print 17cm x 10,5cm Condition: small and light damp stains otherwise very good#5 Title: "Abiti degli Eschimo" (Eskimo - Canada)Dimensions: Sheet 23cm x 14cm… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1881. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. QUITE RARE POETRY BOOK BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN WOMAN First edition. 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." Fields's first collection of poems, Under the Olive. (1881), became available near the end of 1880. In Annie Adams Fields (2002), Rita Gollin notes that Fields's Under the Olive (Copyright 1881) appeared in November of 1880 (p. 202)… Read More

ND. No binding. cut paper size: 2-1/4 x 7/8 inches"M. Fillmore" Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, and Vice President of the United States (1849-1850). He was the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. Political parties: Know Nothing or America Party, Whig Party, Anti-Masonic Party By championing the Compromise of 1850, he can be credited for keeping America from civil war for more than a decade. His accomplishments, while not great, were nonetheless substantial. In addition to the fine legislative engineering that passed the compromise, Fillmore also conducted a disciplined, principled foreign policy.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, June 1999, 1999. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. First edition. xxiii,(1),[1]-629pp. 6 x 9 inches. Blue cloth with gilt type and decorations on spine and cover titles. Over 1,200 new entries. Signed by both Fleming and Alston on title page. Fine condition.Marie Tremaine's Bibliography was originally published by University of Toronto Press in 1952 and has been described as 'the cornerstone of bibliography and book history studies in Canada'. This supplement corrects the original book and adds considerably to its contents. Early Canadian Printings both an analytical bibliography of previously unrecorded eighteenth-century Canadian imprints and a source for the study of early print culture in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Ontario. In this volume the definition of imprint has been extended to encompass all the products of the press, from books and official documents to job printing such as handbills, commercial notices, licences for trade with the native peoples,… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good. First Edition. xviii, 555pp., [1]. 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches. Text in double columns. Foreword by Marianne Scott. ex-library copy The first comprehensive analytical bibliography of Upper Canadian books, pamphlets, government publications, serials, broadsides and ephemera. Special section at rear on newspapers and journals. Patricia Lockhart Fleming now professor emeritus at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Patricia Fleming taught bibliography and book history. She is the author of a series of bibliographies of early Canadian imprints and, most recently, was project director, co-general editor, and volume editor of the History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada published in three volumes in French and English in 2004, 2005, and 2007.

1955. First Editions from 1933 to 1955. An interesting archive of five early titles in Spanish by the Cuban poet, translator, critic and scholar Eugenio Florit. 4 of 5 books inscribed to his friend and colleague, H. R. (Hoffman Reynolds) Hays, American poet, novelist, critic, playwright, translator, social anthropologist, and educator. Hays had a special interest in Spanish language writers and was the author of "12 Spanish American Poets" 1943 of which Eugenio Florit was one of the poets.This collection consists of the following stapled and one glued card covers books: 1. 'Reino' 1938 Ucar Garcia Y Compania. First edition. Signed by Florit on the title page. 66 pp. Cardboard covers. Offcut pages. Pages toned with edgewear to covers. Otherwise, clean and unmarked. Very Good. 2. 'Eugenio Florit Vida Y Obra- Bibliografia-Antologia- Obras Ineditas' 1943 Hispanic Institute in the United States, New York. First edition. Signed by Eugenio Florit and inscribed by him to Hoffman Hays on the copyright page.… Read More

Curt Teich & Co, 1937. No binding. Good. INTERESTING OLD FORT NIAGARA POSTCARDPostally unused folder is linen Some wear on folder, corners, edges and folds of folder, views inside are in good condition. Crease on bottom corners of folder. 18 Views inside; 2 views on the outside Includes views of: De Lery's "Castle", Rush-Bagot Memorial in Background; Flags of Three Nations; Hot Shot Battery Overlooking Mouth of the Niagara; British Redoubt, French Barracks, Powder Magazine; Millet Cross and British Redoubt; Ancient Lombardy Poplar and the "Castle"; General View; Vestibule, French Castle; Council Chamber of Sir William Johnson, French Castle; "Corps de Garde", French Castle; Jesuit Chapel, French Castle; Adjutant's Quarters in the "Castle"; Commanding Officers' Room in the "Castle"; and other views.

London: printed for S. Hooper and A. Morley at Gay's-Head, near Beaufort-Buildings in the Strand, 1758. 3rd Edition. Disbound. Very Good. SEVEN YEARS' WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK Third edition. (2),44pp. Disbound with a half-title. "Non, si quid turbida Roma ... Pers." Some very light offsetting on a few pages, otherwise, very good condition. Great Britian General officers appointed to inquire into causes of failure of the Rochefort expedition, 1757 Attributed to Henry Fox [Baron Holland] Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature / Samuel Halkett and John Laing.ESTC T19884Full title: Candid reflections on the report (as published by authority) of the general-officers, appointed by His Majesty's Warrant of the First of November last, to enquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition to the coasts of France. In a letter to a friend in the country. The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1754 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great… Read More

ND. No binding. 3 x 1-3/4 inches, signature on small card. Alexander Fraser was a journalist, historian, lecturer. Fraser came to Canada on the recommendation of Sir Charles Tupper, to take up a position on the editorial staff of the Toronto Mail (later the Toronto Mail and Empire). He also served as editor of the Scottish Canadian, Massey's Illustrated, Presbyterian Review, and Fraser's Scottish Annual. The Honourable Senator Charles-Philippe Beaubien (1870 - 1949), Conservative, Senator from 1915 to 1949, Senatorial Division Montarville, Quebec. Appointed by R.L. Borden. Alexander Fraser organized the Gaelic Society of Canada in 1887; was its first Secretary, for many years its President. He was a key organizer of the 48th Highlanders of Toronto in 1891; the revival of Clan Fraser Society in 1894; and the Toronto Historical Society, of which he was President. He served as President of the Sons of Scotland Benevolent Association for 12 years and as President of St. Andrew's Society of Toronto. He… Read More

New York: John B. Alden, 1886. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. BEAVERBROOK PROVENANCE WITH BOOKPLATES & SIGNATURES First edition. 4-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches, 1 blank, 4pp, 1 blank, [5]-368pp. Blue cloth with gilt type and one decoration on the spine. Rebacked preserving the original cloth boards and spine. Blue cloth with some soiling on the spine. Cheap paper has some aging but overall in very good condition.This book was owned by Sir Max Aitken, who became Lord Beaverbrook. It has 2 bookplates, one saying Sir Max Aitken and one saying Beaverbrook (used Acheson Batchelor to engrave his bookplate). inside the front cover. Signed "W.M. Aitken" in pencil on title page and page [5]. William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, (25 May 1879 - 9 June 1964) was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer. Beaverbrook was both admired and despised in England, sometimes at the same time: in his 1956 autobiography, David Low quotes H.G. Wells as saying of Beaverbrook: "If ever… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 1st Oxford Press Paperback. 5 x 7-3/4 inches. 256pp. Near Fine condition.Signed by author on the title page plus signed piece of ephemera (Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada reading series June 1990 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 flat folded to 5-3/8 x 3-1/4 inches) Four plays ( 'Master Harold'. And The Boys; Blood Knot; Hello And Goodbye; Boesman And Lena ) in this New Selection of Athol Fugard's best work are set among the people and in the place he knows most intimately - Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Each explores a close and tense family situation or relationship against the background of the wider suffering and tensions, engaging our sympathies for South Africans of all races in their struggle to retain dignity and hope.Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard was born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa. Dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the… Read More