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Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
por Stephen Leacock
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Good/Acceptable
- Livreiro
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
John Lane the Bodley Head, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1952. Reprinted. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly foxed & tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket. Panels have heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, tears, chips, and creasing.
Sinopse
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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- Livreiro
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 1661329299MHR
- Título
- Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
- Autor
- Stephen Leacock
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Good/Acceptable
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- John Lane the Bodley Head
- Data de publicação
- 1952
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Glossário
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
