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Arcadian adventures with the idle rich
por Stephen Leacock
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Acceptable/Acceptable
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este item
John Lane the Bodley Head, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1952. Reprint. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange paper covered boards and black lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Loss to jacket's spine ends and front panel. Sticker to rear panel.
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
- 1666772697BPE
- Título
- Arcadian adventures with the idle rich
- Autor
- Stephen Leacock
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- John Lane the Bodley Head
- Data de publicação
- 1952
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Glossário
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
