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Literary Lapses
by Stephen Leacock
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1965. Paperback. Acceptable. 1965. Reprint. 146 pages. Illustrated white paper cover. Minor foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing to the inside of the covers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible foxing to text block top edge. Covers have visible tanning and foxing with minor corner bending and noticeable sunning to spine.
Synopsis
Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, in 1869. His family emigrated to Canada in 1876 and settled on a farm north of Toronto. Educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, Leacock pursued graduate studies in economics at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Thorstein Veblen. Even before he completed his doctorate, Leacock accepted a position as sessional lecturer in political science and economics at McGill University. When he received his Ph.D. in 1903, he was appointed to the position of lecturer. From 1908 until his retirement in 1936, he chaired the Department of Political Science and Economics. Leacock’s most profitable book was his textbook, Elements of Political Science , which was translated into seventeen languages. The author of nineteen books and countless articles on economics, history, and political science, Leacock turned to the writing of humour as his beloved avocation. His first collection of comic stories, Literary Lapses , appeared in 1910, and from that time until his death he published a volume of humour almost every year. Leacock also wrote popular biographies of his two favourite writers, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. At the time of his death, he left four completed chapters of what was to have been his autobiography. These were published posthumously under the title The Boy I Left Behind Me . Stephen Leacock died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1944. From the eBook edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1605270480EMB
- Title
- Literary Lapses
- Author
- Stephen Leacock
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Date Published
- 1965
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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