Arthur Stringer (Arthur John Stringer 1874–1950) was a Canadian novelist, poet, journalist, and screenwriter born on February 26, 1874, in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He studied at the University of Toronto and later at Oxford before beginning a career in journalism and literature. In 1898 he moved to New York, where he became a prolific writer of novels, magazine fiction, poetry, and Hollywood screenplays. He died on September 13, 1950, in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. During his career he published approximately 45 novels, 15 non-fiction works, numerous poems, and wrote or adapted more than 20 motion pictures. His best-known works include the Prairie trilogy (Prairie Wife, Prairie Mother, and Prairie Child) and numerous adventure novels set in the Canadian North.

Title: The Wife Traders: A Tale of the North
First edition: 1936 (McClelland & Stewart, Toronto)
Later edition: Harlequin Books No. 328, Winnipeg, February 1955

Books by Arthur Stringer:

Novels

The Silver Poppy (1903)
Lonely O’Malley (1905)
The Wire Tappers (1906)
Phantom Wires (1907)
The Under Groove (1908)
The Gun Runner (1909)
The Shadow (1913)
Never-Fail Blake (1913)
The Prairie Wife (1915)
The Hand of Peril (1915)
The Door of Dread (1916)
The House of Intrigue (1918)
The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep (1919)
The Prairie Mother (1920)
Twin Tales (1921)
The Wine of Life (1921)
The Prairie Child (1922)
The Story Without a Name (1924)
The Woman Who Couldn’t Die (1929)
Dark Soil (1933)
Marriage by Capture (1933)
Man Lost (1934)
The Wife Traders (1936)
Heather of the High Hand (1937)
The Lamp in the Valley (1938)
The Dark Wing (1939)
The Ghost Plane (1940)
A King Who Loved Old Clothes (1941)
Intruders in Eden (1942)
Shadowed Victory (1943)
Star in a Mist (1943)
The Devastator (1944)

Poetry

Watchers of Twilight and Other Poems (1894)
Pauline and Other Poems (1895)
The Loom of Destiny (1899)
The Woman in the Rain and Other Poems (1907)
Irish Poems (1911)
Open Water (1914)
A Woman at Dusk and Other Poems (1928)
Out of Erin (Songs in Exile) (1930)
The Old Woman Remembers and Other Irish Poems (1938)
New York Nocturnes (1948)

Nonfiction

A Study of King Lear (1897)
Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke (1921)

Plays

Hephaestus: Persephone at Enna and Sappho in Leucadia (1903)
The Cleverest Woman in the World and Other One-Act Dramas (1939)

Most Collectible Books Values

Watchers of Twilight (1894) – $250–900
Pauline and Other Poems (1895) – $200–800
The Loom of Destiny (1899) – $150–600
The Silver Poppy (1903) – $125–500
The Wire Tappers (1906) – $75–300
The Gun Runner (1909) – $75–300
Open Water (1914) – $150–700
The Prairie Wife (1915) – $75–250
The Prairie Mother (1920) – $50–200
The Prairie Child (1922) – $50–200