Literary Lapses
by Leacock, Stephen
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
John Lane Company, 1913. Fifth edition; cover lightly rubbed/faintly soiled, corners rubbed/bumped, spine ends rubbed/bumped; edges age-toned/lightly soiled; pastedowns faintly unevenly age-toned, erasures on front pastedown/ffep, ffep very faintly soiled, pages 20-23 lightly soiled; binding slightly shaken but intact; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted.. Hard Cover. Good.
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. From the eBook edition.
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- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 618406
- Title
- Literary Lapses
- Author
- Leacock, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- John Lane Company
- Date Published
- 1913
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Munster & Company, LLC
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Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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