(STEPHEN LEACOCK)

The Best of Leacock

Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart, 1969, . Hard bound, first edition, 464pp. Top corners moderately bumped and edges somewhat soiled/spotted. Two previous owner names top of front free endpaper else very good/-- (no dust jacket). 513 grams.

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Book number: 18685

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Stephen Leacock Best Book Excerpts Humor Cdn Lit

LEACOCK, STEPHEN [ALAN BOWKER, ED. AND INTRO.]

The Social Criticism of Stephen Leacock the Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays

Toronto, University of Toronto, 1973. Paperback. 8vo. Spine creased, covers rubbed, else very good. pp. xlviii, 145. .

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Book number: 002181

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Canadian history, Social history, Essays, Humour

MORITZ, ALBERT AND MORITZ, THERESA. (STEPHEN LEACOCK.)

Leacock: A Biography.

(Stoddart, Toronto, 1985), Ist edition.. 363 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "..the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched re-creation of (Stephen Butler Leacock's) life as a writer, family storyteller, occasional speaker, conversationalist, and teacher; it a lone will form the best background for appreciating the source of Leacock's humor and its significance in his own thought. New sources in newspaper accounts, private letters, diaries and memoirs are brought together here with his published h u m o r i n an effort to understand Leacock's creative process and the impact of his life not only as a writer but also as a teacher and thinker." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has moderate creasing/wear at top/bottom of sp in e, l ig h t ed ge wear, four very small closed tears. VG+/VG-.

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Book number: 9515

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Stephen Leacock, Canadian Authors, Humorists, Sunshine Sketches of Little Town, Teachers, Economics, Literature, Orillia, Biography, Storytellers, Mariposa.

LEACOCK, STEPHEN

All Right, Mr. Roosevelt (Canada and the United States)

Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1939. stapled wraps. pp. 40. Partly sunned, covers a bit scuffed, ink name, else very good. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs No. C. 1. .

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Book number: 003380

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Canadian history, Americana, American history, Military history

LEACOCK, STEPHEN (CANADIAN AUTHOR )

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

New Canadian Library N10. 1967, later printing. (Mass market paperback) About very good. Textblock clean but the cover is badly discolored. Canadian Author . (Humor).

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Book number: 389074

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Humor

LEACOCK, STEPHEN (CANADIAN AUTHOR )

Behind the Beyond; And Other Contributions to Human Knowledge

M&S New Canadian Library N 67. [circa 1969], 2nd printing. (Mass market paperback) Good. 125pp. Cover beat up, textblock discolored. Canadian Author . (Humor).

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Book number: 389073

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Humor

LEACOCK, STEPHEN AND LESLIE ROBERTS

CANADA'S WAR AT SEA in two volumes

Montreal, Quebec, Alvah M. Beatty 1944, 1st edition, hb. Ill.: colour, b&w photos & illusts. 4to, Two volumes bound as one book. Leacock wrote "Canada and the Sea" (vol. I) and Roberts "Canada and the War at Sea" (vol. II).
¶ The inside front board has two inscriptions, both in the hand of Captain David Milner - one dated 1947 and the other dated 1993. Boards show some edge wear and some soiling to spine. Contents unmarked (other than inscriptions). A good copy.

-- Greenfield Books

Book number: 041014

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Canadiana Canadian History Canadian Navy Ships Nautical

LEACOCK, STEPHEN AND ROBERTS, LESLIE

CANADA'S WAR AT SEA

Montreal, Alvah M. Beatty 1944, 1st edition, Hb. Ill.: Colour, b&w photos & illusts. Names, bkplt on ffep, pps sl rippled, sl scuffing to bds; good+. 4to, no dj, pp. 154. 99 pp's of ads. 2 volumes in one book: CANADA AND THE SEA by Stephen Leacock and CANADA AND THE WAR AT SEA by Leslie Roberts.

-- Greenfield Books

Book number: 017646

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Canadiana Canadian History Canadian Navy Ships Nautical

LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER 1869 DEC 30 - 1944 MAR 28

Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas

Christopher Skelton, Bridge Approach, Mill Road, Wellingborough, England, 1985. Reissued, 1st thus, Hardcover, Illustrated by: Phillida Gili. Very Good Condition/Good. Bound in red cloth with a circular paper onlay on the front cover, and manufactured with the top edge of each pair of pages not cut. The book itself shows no damage.The dust jacket which is a sheet of tissue paper printed on the spine, and the front panel, tipped to a cream backing sheet at the left-hand end, shows signs of foxing and discolouration around the spine.There is a forword by Bernard Braden. This volume is one of a limited edition of 250 copies of full balance in cloth, of a total edition print run of 675 copies. Size: 16mo (very small). 37, (3) pages, with illustrated and pages, and with the text printed on the right-hand page opposite a drawing.. Illustrator: Phillida Gili. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.

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Book number: 0239375

Catalogue: Literature & Literary

Keywords: Stephen Leacock, humour, Groucho Marx, illustrated limited-edition Literature & Literary;

LEACOCK, STEPHEN

Laugh with Leacock an Anthology of the Best Work of Stephen Leacock

New York City, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo, pp. x, 339. Covers a bit soiled, edgewear, light pencilling to 2 pgs; good. Lacking dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. .

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Book number: 006396

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Humorists, Essays, Plays, Nonsense, Comedy

LEACOCK, STEPHEN

Model Memoirs and Other Sketches from Simple to Serious

London, John Lane The Bodley Head. 1939, First UK Edition. Cloth, 12mo. 359 pp. Some fading to spine, else a very nice, near fine copy. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007440

LEACOCK, STEPHEN

My Discovery of England

Toronto, S. B. Gundy. 1922, First Canadian Edition. Cloth, 12mo. viii, 264 pp. Introduction by Owen Seaman. From the personal library of Vincent Massey, the first Canadian born Governor General of Canada (1952-1959), with his bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. Age-toning and offsetting to endpapers, top-edge is a bit soiled, spine is mildly darkened and head and foot of spine are bruised, still a very nice copy. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007441

LEACOCK, STEPHEN

My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and West in Canada

London, John Lane The Bodley Head. 1937, First UK Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 325 pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine a bit darkened else a nice tight copy. Less commonly found UK edition. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007250

BURWASH, NATHANAEL; LEACOCK, STEPHEN; BOURINOT, SIR JOHN GEORGE

The Makers of Canada: Egerton Ryerson; Robert Baldwin; Louis Lafontaine; Sir Francis Hincks; Lord Elgin (University Edition Volume VIII

Toronto, Morang & Co. 1910, Edition Not Stated. Quarter Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. (CAD) No markings, pages clean, tight copy, Near Fine with some pages still uncut.; no Dj. Ochre cloth with red leather spine with gold titles, top edge gilt, red end papers, 303pp inder for Egerton and then xii, 371pp, index for Baldwin/ Lafontaine/ Hincks then x, 276pp for Lord Elgin. Three tissue-protected portraits with B&W plates. This is Volume VIII of the Makers of Canada and deals with the struggle of Parliamentary government. The text is in English. A heavy book. (3.5 JM FO 55/5. Near Fine.

-- JWMah Books

Book number: 51978

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biographies Makers of Canada Canadian History Canadiana

CARRICK, J.J. (STEPHEN LEACOCK)

Carrick- Atures

No place, no date [Toronto? 1946?]. Softcover , 12mo. Pale green card covers printed in red. pp (96), stapled, text in double columns. Some sunning to covers, light rubber stamps of a private owner on front cover, VG. Photos and press quotes of notable Canadians, including Stephen Leacock on last page (Spadoni C41.13).

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Book number: 27556

Catalogue: Canadiana

CULLITON, JOHN THOMAS. (LEACOCK, STEPHEN)

Assisted Emigration and Land Settlement with Special Reference to Western Canada

Montreal, McGill University. 1927. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 79pp. McGill Economic Studies No. 9. Spadoni B17 states 250 copies printed. Peel(3) 5232. Introduction by Stephen Leacock.

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Book number: 104219

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic

CURRY, RALPH L. (BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN LEACOCK.)

Stephen Leacock; Humorist and Humanist

Garden City, Doubleday. 1959. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 383pp. Photograph endpapers, notes, index. Biography of Stephen Leacock. Locale: Ontario.

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Book number: 105089

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Humor, Writers

CURRY, RALPH L. (BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN LEACOCK.)

Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Humanist

Garden City, Doubleday. 1959, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 383pp. Notes, index, photograph endpapers. Biography of Stephen Leacock. Locale: Ontario. (Fiction-Canadian, Humor, Writers).

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Book number: 276532

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Fiction-Canadian, Humor, Writers

CURRY, RALPH L. (BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN LEACOCK.)

Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Humanist

Book Club. [1959]. (Hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. Biography of Stephen Leacock. Locale: Ontario. (Fiction-Canadian, Humor, Writers).

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Book number: 112938

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Fiction-Canadian, Humor, Writers

DAVIES, ROBERTSON [STEPHEN LEACOCK].

Feast of Stephen. An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock, with a Critical Introduction By Robertson Davies.

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1970, First printing. (ISBN: 0771025785) Hardcover , Octavo. Geen boards. Fine copy, no previous owner names. Price-clipped jacket has some minor rubbing to rear panel but is otherwise fine and bright. A somewhat uncommon book. Davies writes a 45 page introduction and there is a four page checklist of Leacock's works. The introduction was separately issued in a slightly different form in paperback.

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Book number: 26963

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Sold0771025785

FRANKLIN, (STEPHEN, COMPILER) [STEPHEN LEACOCK].

Leacock.

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1970. Oblong format, 13.5 x 9 inches, portfolio, illustrated paper covers. Complete with the 10 reproductions of documents, the phonograph record of 10 minutes of Leacock's voice, the four broadsheets of text, and the introductory sheet. Fine copy. Jackdaw C24, issued in the centennial of the birth of Stephen Leacock.

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Book number: 22180

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

HANNON, LESLIE F. (EDITOR) (CONTRIBUTOR ROBERT THOMAS ALLEN; PIERRE BERTON; FRED BODSWORTH; ERNEST BUCKLER; MORLEY CALLAGHAN; JUNE CALLWOOD; THOMAS B. COSTAIN; MAZO DE LA ROCHE; BRUCE HUTCHINSON; STEPHEN LEACOCK; ROGER LEMELIN; HUGH MACLENNAN; W.O. MITCHE

MacLean's Canada; Portrait of a Country

Canada, McClelland & Stewart. [1960]. (4to) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 248pp. Black and white and color photographs. Edgewear to dust jacket with two fairly large chips from top edges, previous owner's inscription. Contributors include Robert Thomas Allen, Pierre Berton, Fred Bodsworth, Ernest Buckler, Morley Callaghan, June Callwood, Thomas B. Costain, Mazo de la Roche, Bruce Hutchinson, Stephen Leacock, Roger Lemelin, Hugh MacLennan, W.O. Mitchell, Farley Mowat, Thomas H. Raddall, Gabrielle Roy.

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Book number: 104098

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Canada, Essays, Maclean's

"BEN TRAVERS, ARR., INTRO. AND STEPHEN LEACOCK"

The Leacock Book

John Lane The Bodley Head 1930 Paperback. no dj; ex lib. Fair.

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Book number: 334423

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Commentary

KIMBALL, ELIZABETH (BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN LEACOCK.)

The Man in the Panama Hat; Reminiscences of My Uncle, Stephen Leacock

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. [1970]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 174pp. Decorated endpapers. Rubbing, minor edgewear to dust jacket. Biography of Stephen Leacock.

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Book number: 012805

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Fiction, Canadian

(LAFCADIO HEARN, ROBERT SERVICE, SEAN O'GUIGIN, I.A. IRELAND, BRAM STOKER, W.W. JACOBS, BANJO PATERSON, ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, SAKI, E. NESBIT, WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON, STEPHEN LEACOCK, RUTH MANNING-SANDERS, VIVIEN ALCOCK, MARION CRAWFORD, GARY HINES, ET

Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids.

Key Porter, (Toronto, 1998). 270 pp, small 4to (10 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1550139940 Color and b&w illustrations. "This collection will take unsuspecting readers on a strange and surprising journey. They will visit a ship adrift on the Pacific Ocean and le arn of a strange moss that grows everywhere. They will meet a weary prospector at the North Pole, burdened by the promise to a now-dead companion. They will encounter witches in a lonely mountaintop cabin, and ghouls in a murky swamp. Wherev e r t h ey take place, many of the stories revolve around children. Kids can be found dodging cruel aunts or taking vanishing lessons from ghosts, playing with haunted electrical train sets or worrying about food rotting in the refrigerator. And ju st so t hat the terror isn't too nonstop, some of the stories are downright comical, promising laughs as well as shudders.." Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling. Fine/Very Good+.

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Book number: 22705

Catalogue: Childrens

Keywords: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter de la Mare, Karen Voss Peters, Laurie Channer, Walter R. Brooks, Jules Verne, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Geoffrey Palmer, Noel Lloyd, Joseph Jacobs, Ghosts, Fairy Tales, Horror, Haunti