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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
by LEACOCK, Stephen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London / New York / Toronto: John Lane The Bodley Head /John Lane Company / S.B. Gundy, 1915. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition, "third Canadian issue," first binding variant, and first Canadian edition with the S.B. Gundy imprint. Spine is very lightly faded, top edge is a bit dust soiled, a few pages are lightly foxed, else a very good copy in unrecorded good only dust jacket (the jacket "not seen" by the bibliographer is similar to the only known dust jacket on an English edition (see Spadoni A16b note) with "The Bodley Head" imprint at base of spine present, but with no printed price on the spine (the English jacket has the price on the spine), the front panel has the title printed in blue, and the author's name is printed in pale green (instead of blue on the English jacket), the front and rear flaps are unprinted (the only known English jacket lacked the flaps). The pictorial jacket is soiled, with a few small chips at tips of spine with loss to publisher's printed name at base of spine, a good copy of a rare jacket, the bibliographer was unable to locate any jacket for the Gundy imprint. Spadoni A16b.3, in "first" binding variant, with cancel title page].
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 513161
- Title
- Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
- Author
- LEACOCK, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head /John Lane Company / S.B. Gundy
- Place of Publication
- London / New York / Toronto
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- VintageDustjackets, EnglishLiterature
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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