Search Results: Titles starting with U from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

New York: R.R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library, 1978. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 2nd edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. [1978 copyright stated] 6-3/8 x 10 inches. 652 pp. Original brown cloth hardcover.A Selective Bibliography of 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of The United States. Full collations are provided, as are annotations concerning the rarity and particular significance of the titles described. Arguably the most important single volume on books relating to the United States. Wright Howes was a highly regarded bookseller based in Chicago, and remembered for his fundamental bibliography on Americana, U.S.IANA. This bibliography of uncommon and rare Americana is enhanced by Howes' concise and witty annotations. He was an acknowledged master in the field.

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. Good. 8 x 6 inches, Typed note, unsigned. Undated. interoffice note, to Joan Hollobun.Left paper edges ragged and missing some paper, agetoned, more so on the left side, old pad along the 8 inch horizontal, otherwise good condition.Note contents; Joan Holobun: Faith of Our Fathers Would you like to write a note on this for the Church page ? I don't want it for Book and Mr. Doyle thinks your department might take over such things. Thanks Bill Deacon. William Arthur Deacon was a Canadian literary critic and editor. He was the literary editor of Saturday Night (1922-8), the Mail and Empire (1928-36), and the Globe and Mail (1936-60). William Arthur Deacon (1890-1977) was Canada's best-known bookman. He aimed to create a readership for the appreciation of Canadian writers and for the purchase of Canadian books. William Arthur Deacon was the individual who was responsible for coming up with the idea of the Governor General's Literary Awards through his colleagues at the Canadian Authors… Read More

[London]: [HMSO], 1838. 1st Edition. No binding. SCARCE UPPER CANADA 1837-38 REBELLION RELATED DOCUMENTS Upper Canada : return to addresses of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 8 & 21 May and 8 June 1838. 29 pages. Copy of instructions to the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, relative to proceedings against persons recently arrested in that Province : extract of a despatch from the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, relative to the disposal of the prisoners convicted of treason in that province : copies of the several acts of the Legislature of Upper Canada in the last session, for the preservation of the peace, and for the trial of persons charged with insurrection and revolt against the government of the province, stating the dates on which the several bills received the royal sanction. Parliamentary Paper no 524, 21 June 1838, 29 pages. Slightly soiled. At foot of t.p.: "524" Title on verso of p. 29."Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 21 June 1838" TPL 7489 schedule no.… 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.