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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (First Illustrated Edition)

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (First Illustrated Edition)

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (First Illustrated Edition)

by Leacock, Stephen

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ISBN 10
0771050011
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9780771050015
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. Large format, 8 1/4" x 10". Originally published in 1912, this edition has a Bates dust jacket illustration in full colour, and many smaller, mainly B&W, illustrations in the text. 184 pages.. First Illustrated Ed., First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Wesley W. Bates.

Synopsis

Decades after his death in 1944, STEPHEN LEACOCK remains one of the world's best-loved humorous writers. Born in 1869 and educated in Canada, Leacock was Professor Economics at McGill University. His greatest fame, however, was as a humorist, thanks to a stream of books that followed Literary Lapses (1910) at the rate of almost one a year. Of these, Sunshine Sketches has proved to be his most popular, ever since its publication in 1912. Acclaimed cartoonist SETH is the author of the comic book series Palookaville and such graphic novels as It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken ; Wimbledon Green ; and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists . As a book designer, he has worked on such projects as The Portable Dorothy Parker , the bestselling Complete Peanuts collection, and Lemony Snicket's new series, All The Wrong Questions . His work frequently appears in The Walrus and The New Yorker . In 2011, Seth received the Harbourfront Festival Prize. He lives in Guelph.

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Bookseller
Purpora Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
21828
Title
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (First Illustrated Edition)
Author
Leacock, Stephen
Illustrator
Wesley W. Bates
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Illustrated Ed., First Printing
ISBN 10
0771050011
ISBN 13
9780771050015
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
1996

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