Lectures by Leacock Stephen (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1940. Reprinted. 311 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Minor wear and tanning. 1940 reprint. Clothbound in red with the title in black. Some spotting to the page edges. The text remains clean and bright. No dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd. reprint. the boards are scuffed and edge worn. foxing and markings. one inscription. rather fair copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp: 251. Bound in red/black dust jacket over red cloth boards. The first edition with the date '1937' on the copyright page. The contents of the book are a collection of lectures given by Leacock over his career. They accurately reflect his sense of humour; his slightly satirical style, his use of adsurdity and exaggerated logic, which gently mocks social conventions. His world-wide popularity may be due to his history. He was born in England, educated in the United States, but is the most 'Canadian' writer around. This is a very good copy in a good dust jacket. The jacket is in one piece, but only just. There are long, clean tears along the front flap, and one side of the spine. There is also chipping at both ends of the spine, with a piece missing at the base, and lesser amounts of edge wear.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. In original, unclipped ($2.00), jacket. Slight wear to jacket including creasing at some folds and to extremities. Red cloth over boards with debossed cell and lettering on front and gilded lettering on spine. Machine deckled long edge and top-stain. Bookplate on front pastedown. The interior i clean and clear. Pages:(10) 251 Dimensions:7½ x 5½ x 1½.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Delightful talks delivered by the Canadian humorist during his popular lecture tours of the English-speaking world. Octavo: 251 p. Original red cloth binding, with gilt and blind-stamped titles. An especially crisp, near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very light wear.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 320. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1940 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 320.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. folio, 33cm, being 100 typescript pages in various paginations, first and second copies, bound-in plain green linen binder, very good to fine, With a Leacock folder and a silk Leacock memorial bookmark, loosely inserted. (cgc) Not located in Spadoni,Bibliography of Stephen Leacock, 1998. Cf D27.2 for similar reference to the second speech listed above. - The third lecture concludes with the famous Leacock epigram: "A socialist is an economist who has gone wrong."The collection also includes 4 lectures by W.W. Goforth: The Problem of Canadian Immigration", "On the Minimum Wage", "On Foreign Trade of Canada" & "On Trade Unionism in Canada". Also includes 3 lectures byDr. J.C. Hemmeon: "On the Canadian Banking System-Its Strength and Weakness", "On the Sources of Government Revenue with Special Relation to Canada" & "On Sources of Public Revenue with Particular Reference to the Provincial Governments." A printed booklet has been bound-in: "The Problems of Canadian Transportation" by Laurence Chalmers Tombs" and tipped-in newspaper clipping reviews of the lectures.

First Edition. Humorous stories and lectures/ essays. First edition in jacket. Published New York but stamp to verso of title page indicates this is the 'Canadian Edition'. Inscription to fep otherwise VG in Good+ jacket which is a little frayed to the spine ends. Scarce.