Wet Wit and Dry Humour

New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. viii,[ii],260,[2] p. 19 cm. Sound and square binding in tan, cloth-covered boards with blue titles and illustrations. Corner tips are lightly bumped. Coloured top edge of the text block is faded. Previous owner's name and date on the front free endpaper. Endpapers are toned. Inside pages are clean and unmarked with just a hint of toning to some of the margins. The dustjacket includes three paper-covered, metal corner-protectors that came with the book and have advertising on them. The paper of the jacket has a glaze over it which does not quite extend the full size of the rear flap. The jacket has heavy edgewear, including a piece missing from the bottom front edge that affects the author's name. Two tears, on the spine and bottom edges, have been neatly repaired with acid-free document tape on the reverse side, and there are additional edge chips, tears, and creases. It is price-clipped. A look at the world of prohibition by Canada's renowned humourist Stephen Leacock. Much of the material it includes was entirely new to this work. As an indicator of its tone, the dedication page reads "This book is compiled in friendly appreciation of Prohibition in the United States, the greatest thing that ever happened -- to Canada". A scarce copy, particularly with the dustjacket. .