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The Boy I Left Behind Me
by Leacock, Stephen
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1947. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 224pp. 12mo. Yellowish green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Light wear to ends of spine. Discolouration on endpapers. Previous owners name on front attached endpaper 1948. B/W frontis. Clean, tight text block with light foxing to outer edges. In dust jacket, clipped on bottom inside corner but with price stilll visible. This is the first variant of the dust jacket with the B/W photograph on the front. There is light chipping, especially at the ends of the spine, some rubbing to jacket and a 3/4" closd tear at top of front of jacket. This is a lovely copy. very good Spadoni A104b. A first UK edition by the famous Canadian humorist, essayist, teacher, political scientist and historian. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, awards and distinctions (the Lorne Pierce Medal, the Governor General's Award, a postage stamp issued in his honour, the Leacock medal for humour- established in his honour), Leacock was the English-speaking world's best-known humorist 1915-25. 1947
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131950
- Title
- The Boy I Left Behind Me
- Author
- Leacock, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Autobiography|Can Lit|Canadian Author|Canadian Literature|Humour|Leacock, Stephen|Stephen Leacock
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Aquila Books
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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