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

1941. No binding & hard cover. Booth Tarkington was an American novelist, dramatist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered America's greatest living author. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.The collection consists of 40 items dating from 1900 to 1941, specifically 4 letters, 1 signed page, 18 photos, 2 books, a glass plate, and 14 ephemera (2 pieces of sheet music, 7 programs and playbills, 2 lobby cards, and 2 post cards). One of the playbills prints letters of appreciation from Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt to Alexandra Carlisle, an English actress and suffragist who settled in the United States.4 Letters (1 Autographed Letter Signed (ALS) and 2 Typed Letters Signed (TLS):• ALS to [Mark Sullivan], n.d., pp. 9-10 only, political tone ("I don't `take any stock' in our present Governor Hanly.... No real Roman was quite button-nosed." • TLS to Edward H.… Read More

1897. No binding. Very Good. Israel Tarte was a notary, journalist, newspaper owner, and politician. Tarte came to prominence as editor of several newspapers, Le Canadien, L'Evénement, La Patrie and the Quebec Daily Mercury. He was a Minister under Wilfrid Laurier. "The four elements that made him what he was - a francophone, Catholic, Canadian, and British subject - sometimes led him, in politics, to try to square the circle." DCB Typed letter signed with Free Frank envelope. One page, 8 x 10 inches. Dated Office of the Minister of Public Works, Ottawa, September 6th, 1897. Letter refers to a dispute between lumber and agricultural interests and suggesting he will attempt to work out a solution. (With some Tarte handwritten additions). To Cambridge member of parliament Duncan Graham (1845-1934), who had just won a by-election in 1897 to Parliament (his only term) after a contested vote count in the 1896 Laurier landslide.

Oxford: John Henry and James Parker, 1857. New Edition" stated, . 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches. xx,[1]-321pp. Bound in full dark brown calf, spines with six raised bands, blind covers tooling with double rules Leaf tooled designs in corners, marbled end pages, edges of pages dyed red. Some minor scuff market and worn at bottom left edge of spine. Two previous owner's bookplates on marbled end papers and gift inscription on front end paper dated 1858. Internally in very clean condition, very good+ condition. The first half of Holy Dying delivers practical suggestions for cleansing and building up the soul in godly fashion. The latter half includes a memorial sermon both for a friend of his and for Christians who have died generally. Taylor's work has received praise not just for its devotional merit, but also for the delicate musicality of its prose. This book is the second volume in a two-volume devotional set. quoted from Christian Classics Ethereal Library online.Jeremy Taylor was a Church of England… 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

The Empress Hotel promotional brochure. ND, 1936. 1st. No binding. Very Good. Flat size 30 x 6.75 inches folds to 5 x 6.75 inches This 12pp folder is printed in two colours (light green and black with some soiling. Overall good condition.17 portraits of the wives of Canadian Governor General's. From Lady Durham to Roberte, Countess of Beesborough The inside page reads" This booklet has been prepared in response to the keen interest of visitors in the group of beautiful paintings on the walls of the stately dinning room at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia - a Canadian Pacific hostelry. These paintings are portraits of the wives of Governor-Generals of Canada, who during the last century came to a brave new world from the Courts of Old England. Many of them have played important roles in the upbuilding of Canada. All have upheld the traditions of the Royal House, sharing with their husbands viceregal status and presiding with grace and dignity in the capital of Canada.".

Toronto: The Globe" & "The Toronto Daily Mail" newspapers, 1885. 1st Edition. No binding. Fair to good. 8 EARLY TORONTO NEWSPAPER REPORTS ON THE RIEL REBELLION North-West Rebellion, also called North-West Resistance, Second Riel Rebellion, or Northwest Uprising, violent insurgency in 1885 fought between the Canadian government and the Métis and their aboriginal allies, in regions of Canada later known as Saskatchewan and Alberta. The North-West Rebellion was triggered by rising concern and insecurity among the Métis about their land rights and survival following an influx of white settlers and a decline in bison - a major food source for the Métis and indigenous peoples in west-central Canada. The North West Rebellion lasted less than three months in the spring of 1885. But the prairie uprising had an enduring effect on a nation. While the North-West Rebellion was ongoing, the American and British press took note of the actions of both the Métis and the Canadian Government. This is the… Read More

[York]: The House of Commons, Printed by Charles Fothergill, 1822. 1st Edition. No binding. RARE DOCUMENT - ONLY 2 COPIES FOUNDFirst UK edition. A Bill (as amended for the Committee) for uniting the Legislatures of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada. (London), The House of Commons, 1822.Quarto, 9, [1] pages, stitched. British Parliamentary Paper #616. [York] : Printed by Charles Fothergill, 1822"31 July, 1922" at head of caption title. At head of title on page 9 verso: 3 Geo. IV. Sess. 1822. Scarce document. A very early Bill stating that "a joint Legislature for both Provinces would be more likely to promote their general security and prosperity than a separate Legislature for each of the said Provinces, as at the present by law established". It is then proposed that that act be repealed by the present Act for the purpose of the joint Legislatures.TPL 1256.Charles Fothergill (1782-1840) was a businessman, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada. In 1822, he was appointed King's Printer… Read More

Indianapolis: The Indianapolis Sentinel Newspaper, 1885. 1st Edition. No binding. Fair. EARLY 3 NEWSPAPER REPORTS ON THE RIEL REBELLION Three (3) May 1885 The Indianapolis Sentinel Newspapers, 8 page, 15-3/4 x 20-1/2 inches, with each issue reporting on The Riel Rebellion...• Dated May 14, 1885 p.2, Batouche via Clark's Crossing! "Riel Routed - Batouche captured by Middleton's men and rebels driven out"• Dated May 16, 1885 p.4 News That The Rebellion Has Been Broken "Northwestern troubles - It looks as if the back of the rebellion was broken, though bands of Indians carry on a guerrilla warfare".• Dated May 18, 1885 p.1 The News of Riel's Capture "The Northwest - Excited over Riel's capture - other prisoners going home"Brittle paper with tears and some missing pieces on edges but not affecting focus content text, otherwise fair to good condition. The North-West Rebellion of 1885 (also known as the Louis Riel Rebellion) was a rebellion by the Métis people under Louis Riel and an associated… Read More

Boston: The Weekly Messenger newspaper, 1812. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. VERY EARLY PRINTED COPY OF THE US DECLARING OF WAR ON BRITAIN This June 26, 1812 The Weekly Messenger newspaper contains a declaration of war by James Madison dated 18 June 1812, and a proclamation by Madison confirming war, dated 19 June 1812. The United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Very early published articles 7 days after the official declaration of War by USA on Great Britain. Content;Front cover, Col. 1-5, - DEBATE IN LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS" discussing the War and relations with Great Britain. 5 columns, whole front page. P2, col 1,2&3, - IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE" Washington, June 18, Much about the rationale for War. 41 col. inches. P.2, col.3,4&5 - "DECLARATION" long detail discussions on War. 43 col. inches. P.3 col.2, - "A PROCLAMATION" James Madison confirms a state of War with Great Britain as of June 18, 2014. 5 col. inches. P.3, col.2, - "YEAS and NAYS" Vote in the House and… Read More

Brantford, ON: The Woodland Indian Cultural Educational Centre, 1981. 1st Edition. Plastic wire-o. Very Good+. BOTH CALENDARS ARE QUITE SCARCE#1 Calendar: Woodland Indian Games Calendar 1981 [Cover title]. 1980 [Brantford, Ontario]: [The Woodland Indian Cultural Educational Centre], . Oblong, comb bound self wrappers. [26] pp. Very good plus with minimal wear.The calendar features 13 full page illustrations of Native American games by Bill Powless, who was born and raised on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and has had numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada. He's also illustrated children's books and is a muralist. Month and day names are in Cayuga and the calendar also has historical dates related to the Six Nations interspersed throughout. OCLC locates two copies, one in Canada and one in USA. #2 Calendar: Woodland Indian Agriculture Calendar 1982 [Cover title]. 1981. [Brantford, Ontario]: [The Woodland Indian Cultural Educational Centre]Oblong, comb bound self… Read More

1837. No binding. Very Good. * No postal markings - privately delivered *letter of 1½ pages, dated London, March 24th [18]37. From j.b. flanagan to:Letter mentions various names for which the author has ‘papers' - Mr Kellaby; John L. Montserret; Mr Abraham Van C[?]; Mr David Hugeboom (‘a person I suppose you well know'); W[illia]m Ross; Samuel Durrent - though no positive identification of these individuals, nor of J.B. Flanagan has been made.The settlement of St. Thomas was founded in 1803 by a Colonel (Thomas) Talbot (1771-1853), who emigrated to Canada in 1792; he was by all accounts ‘one of the most notable characters of the early days of Upper Canada', and it seems likely that John Talbot was related to him.

London: Printed and Sold by J.Towers, 1758. 2nd Edition. Disbound. Very Good. SEVEN YEARS' WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK Second edition with additions. 5 x 8 inches. (2), [3]- 66pp. (2) Disbound with no half-title page. Price on title page: (Price 1s. 6d.) Pages 60-63 deal with the war in America.Criticism of the ill fated attempt by the British to take the port of Rochefort in France in Piccadilly. Country gentleman = Thomas Potter, 'The candid reflexions' is by Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland. Blame for the failure of the expedition on commanding officer, Sir John Mordaunt. Very good condition.ESTC T33817 The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1754 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America, known today as the French and Indian War.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1952. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Second edition. 7 x 9-7/8 inches. xii,(1),140 pp. Signed "R.V. Tooley Oct. 28, 1952" on front end paper. Rust cloth boards with gilt text on spine. Spine right side with top 1/2 inch an bottom 1-1/4 inch tear. Insides clean. No D.J. Good condition otherwise.With 104 illustrations (several coloured illustrations including frontis). "This standard work gives full information and illustrations of the principal map-makers and map publishers and their work from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, combining an appreciation of the popular decorative side of early maps with historical and bibliographical notes." from inside cover.

[Ottawa]: Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd. Ottawa, ND. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. Photogelatine Engraving Co. Bird's Eye View of Toronto, Ontario. The back is not divided. Very Good condition. Unused. Photogelatine Engraving Co., Ltd. (1910-1953) was a major publisher and printer of Canadian view-cards. These cards were made as black & white, monochrome, and tinted collotypes.

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

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

[Ottawa]: Department of Secretary of State, Canada, 1982. 1st Edition. Framed. Near Fine. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT RARE CANADIAN SIGNED PRINTED DOCUMENT This 1982 Charter printed document is in a wooden frame 25-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches. The printed document is flat size 22-7/8 x 17-1/2 inches (not examined outside of frame). This 1982 Charter printed document is in a wooden frame 25-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches. The printed document is flat size 22-7/8 x 17-1/2 inches (not examined outside of frame). The value and historical importance of this document is the hand-signed Trudeau's (1982) and Chrétien's signatures.The first inscription is located on top right right, specifically, "P.E. Trudeau 1982" the same year as the signing of the original Canada Act which included the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The second hand-signature located on the top left is "Best Wishes, Jean Chrétien" (not dated). Chrétien was one of the four people who signed the two original Canada Act documents in April 1982. "In a kind gesture… Read More

London: Simkin, Masrhall & Co, 1847. 2nd Edition. SCARCE EARLY SIR ISAAC BROCK BIOGRAPHYSecond UK edition. 4.5 by 7.25 Inches, xii, [1]-492pp. Original blind stamped cloth covers with original spine saved and professionally rebacked. Back cover cloth with top half and spine faded. Previous owners name and dated Toronto 1908 on top right inside front blank. Very little foxing present very clean text. Very good condition. Previous owners name on inside front cover end paper. Nice copy of a scarcer book than the first edition published two years prior in 1845 with only 468pp. Additional material in this volume amounts to about one third of the first edition.Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was the cousin of the author and editor, Ferdinand Brock Tupper. "Ferdinand Brock Tupper, the historian of Guernsey, was a far relative of Sir Charles, Canadian statesman. Presumed a special gift due to the Confederation of Canada in 1867. The first descended from John Tupper and the second from Thomas, two brothers of… Read More

London: Simkin, Masrhall & Co, 1847. 2nd. Hard Cover. Very Good. SCARCE EARLY SIR ISAAC BROCK BIOGRAPHYSecond UK edition. 4.5 by 7.25 Inches, xii, [1]-492pp. Original blind stamped professionally rebacked. Very little foxing present very clean text. Very good condition. Previous owners name and gift from a friend inscription March 6, 1884 on inside front cover end paper. Nice copy of a scarcer book than the first edition published two years prior in 1845 with only 468pp. Additional material in this volume amounts to about one third of the first edition.Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was the cousin of the author and editor, Ferdinand Brock Tupper. "Ferdinand Brock Tupper, the historian of Guernsey, was a far relative of Sir Charles, Canadian statesman. Presumed a special gift due to the Confederation of Canada in 1867. The first descended from John Tupper and the second from Thomas, two brothers of Chichester, England, with a German origin. F. B. Tupper was more approximate to Sir Charles Lewis… Read More