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PETER McARTHUR.

By: Deacon, William Arthur.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press:

Seller ID: 28840

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

180 pp, 6 3/4" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering/decoration on spine, blindstamped signature & border on front board. B&w portrait. One of the "Makers of Canadian Literature" series, edited by Lorne Albert Pierce. Contents: Biographical; Anthology; Appreciation; Bibliography; Index. Tiny light glue mark on free rear endpaper, a few very tiny dlue marks at top of inside front hinge, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners.
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CHRISTMAS WITH STEPHEN LEACOCK: REFLECTIONS ON THE YULETIDE SEASON.

By: Leacock, Stephen. Introduction by Prof. Ralph L. Curry.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage/Natural History: 1988

Seller ID: 2979

ISBN: 0920474470

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

111 pp, small 4to (9 7/8" H). "(A) collection of Yuletide stories, some of them being published for the very first time. Written during the interval between the two World Wars, through the Great Depression and on into the deeply troubled times that preceded the outbreak of World War II, Stephen Leacock's observant eye and brilliant use of satire reminds us even today of the need to cast aside our differences and truly celebrate the meaning of the Christmas season, with the intention of carrying this meaning into our daily lives.". Includes: Christmas Rapture; First Aid to the Chri...
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STEPHEN LEACOCK: A CHECK-LIST AND INDEX OF HIS WRITINGS.

By: Lomer, Gerhard R., compiler. (Stephen Leacock)

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Library of Canada.: 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28419

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

153 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographic frontispiece. Contents: Preface; Sources; Arrangement; Acknowledgements; Part I. Check-list; Part II. Index; Part III. Manuscripts. Interior - very light browning to index pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very soft corner crease on front cover, tiny repaired tear at bottom of spine, one or two small faint liquid stains on covers.
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ARCHYOLOGY II (THE FINAL DIG). THE LONG LOST TALES OF ARCHY AND MEHITABEL.

By: Marquis, Don. Edited with preface by Jeff Adams. Illustrated by Ed Frascino.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University Press of New England, Hanover,:

Seller ID: 21088

121 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0874518539 B&w cartoons. "In this second and final volume 'composed' by Archy, the literary cockroach, the wonderfully whimsical insect and his fractious feline friend Mehitabel, engage in misadventures large and small and comment with quirky accuracy on the common state of humanity. Previously unpublished in book form and literally recovered from a steamer trunk by editor Jeff Adams, these stories are the product of Don Ma r q u i s , a New York columnist and raconteur who was one of America's most popular humorists durin...
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STEPHEN LEACOCK. MAKERS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE SERIES.

By: McArthur, Peter.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1923

Seller ID: 28225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

176 pp, 16mo (6 5/8" H), dark blue cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine, gold signature on front board. Tipped in b&w frontispiece. Looks at the life and work of Canadian humorist and historian, Stephen Leacock. Contents: Biographical; Anthology; Appreciation; Bibliography; Index. Light edge wear, tiny bump to top corner of boards, 1946 Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper, small areas of browning in gutters of first few pages of biographical section, very light browning to edges of text block, minor rubbing on rear board.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN LEACOCK.

By: Spadoni, Carl. (Stephen Leacock.)

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, ECW Press: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29517

ISBN: 1550223658

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

714 pp, 10 1/4" H. Medium blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, silver portrait on front board. Contents: Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Location Symbols; Illustrations; Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Annuals); Reports of Speeches and Lectures; Lectures Given; Interviews; Authorized Adaptations, Separately Published; Translations; Recordings by Leacock, Braille, Talking Books, and Films; Encyclopedia Articles; Contributions in Serial Articles and Books by Others; Lost Leads; Index. Tiny bump...
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Image for THE INNOCENTS ABROAD, OR THE NEW PILGRIMS' PROGRESS; BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY'S PLEASURE EXCURSION TO EUROPE AND THE HOLY LAND; WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES, AS THEY APPEARED TO THE AUTHOR.

THE INNOCENTS ABROAD, OR THE NEW PILGRIMS' PROGRESS; BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY'S PLEASURE EXCURSION TO EUROPE AND THE HOLY LAND; WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES, AS THEY APPEARED TO THE AUTHOR.

By: Twain, Mark, (Samuel L. Clemens.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company: 1896

Edition: Subscription Edition.

Seller ID: 30474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

651 pp, 9" H. Black cloth with gilt decoration on front board, blind stamped emblem on rear board, gilt lettering/decoration on spine. This edition was available by subscription only. 234 b&w illustrations, from full page plates to smaller drawings throughout the text. Mark Twain describes his journey through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 with a group of American tourists, describing the sights, people and customs of the areas he visits. Light browning in margins of pages and on endpapers, full page illustration pages have a little more browning and the odd foxing mark, foxing on fro...
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MEET MR. MULLINER.

By: Wodehouse, P.G.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, London, (1927), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10548

312 pp, + 8 pages of ads, small 8vo, hard cover (green boards, black lettering/decoration on spine/front board) - no dust jacket. "Meet Mr. Mulliner and the spirits soar upwards. He relates some truly remarkable adventures. He is blessed, too, with a bevy of priceless relatives who keep the ball of fun rolling in no uncertain fashion. There is nephew Lancelot, cousin Clarence, the bulb-squeezer or photographer, nephew George, cursed with a terrible stammer, and brother Wilfred who was clean bowled over by Miss Angela Purdue. In this bright company no one can fail to be amused." I...
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HOT WATER.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse .)

Price: $275.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1932

Edition: First Canadian Edition.

Seller ID: 27939

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

312 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Orange cloth with black lettering on spine/front board. "Reviewing Mrs. J. Wellington Gedge's worldly goods, one would have thought her cup of happiness must be complete. Yet this was not so. She had a small husband and a large income, and both of these she used relentlessly in her efforts to attain her great ambition - to place her unfortunate husband on an ambassadorial throne. The success of her plans rested upon the shoulders of Senator Opal and the Vicomte de Blissac, but such is the way of Fate that the Senator's daughter Jane, Packy Franklyn, B...
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BIG MONEY.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse .)

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1931

Edition: First Canadian Edition.

Seller ID: 27941

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

316 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), orange cloth with black title/author blocks, orange lettering. Harry Beckhoff dust jacket and endpaper art. "The mangement of fiancees and the manipulation of high finances go roisterously hand in hand in this amorous and economic history of Biscuit, otherwise Lord Biskerton, son and heir of the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. Biscuit had red hair, a preliminary scenario for a mustache, and a noble determination to escape the disgrace of work. Berry Conway who has less iron in his soul had succumbed to economic pressure and become the secretary to T. Paterson...
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MOSTLY SALLY.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: A.L. Burt, New York, (c1923), reprint by arrangement with George H. Doran.:

Seller ID: 15799

317 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" h), hard cover (buff cloth with dark blue lettering on spine, decorative cartouche in dark blue on front board) - no dust jacket. Interior - previous owners name on free front endpaper, one dog-ear crease. Exterior - book slightly cocked, heavy browning to edges of textblock, darkening to spine, small stains/foxing marks on boards and edges of textblock, light to moderate edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, corners slightly bumped. Good reading copy .
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THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York, (c1910), reprint by permission of W.J. Watt & Company.:

Seller ID: 15800

314 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" h), hard cover (dark blue cloth with paste-down on front board) - no dust jacket. Tissue-covered color frontispiece, plus 4 b&w plates. A novel of high society romance and crime set in New York. Interior - previous owner's name on free front endpaper, 1/2" tear at top of front inside hinge, pages browning lightly, a few pages with minor soiling/foxing, book slightly cracked at three places, several small dog-ear creases, one plate with diagonal crease. Exterior - light to moderate rubbing/edge wear, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, edges of textblock brow...
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LOVE AMONG THE CHICKENS: A STORY OF THE HAPS AND MISHAPS ON AN ENGLISH CHICKEN FARM.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse). Illustrated by Armand Both.

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: Circle Publishing, New York, 1909.:

Seller ID: 15801

350 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" H), hard cover (buff cloth with black lettering on spine and front board, red & black illustration on front board, red rooster emblem on spine) - no dust jacket. Tissue-covered b&w frontispiece, plus 5 b&w plates. Love, laugher, tea, tennis, golf etc., on an English chicken farm. Interior - previous owners hand written name and book store stamp on free front endpaper, lending library name/address stamp and remains of old label on front pastedown, two pages with small corner crease - one has a large dog-ear crease, scattered brown foxing/stain marks throughout b...
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EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.)

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Longmans, Green: 1940

Edition: First Canadian Edition.

Seller ID: 27940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

284 pp, + (4 pp), small 8vo (7 3/8" H), orange cloth with black lettering on spine. "In the heart of London's clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Drones Club. Yet its somewhat austere exterior belies the atmosphere of cheerful optimism and bonhomie that prevails within. For here it is that young gallants of Mayfair forgather for the pre-luncheon bracer and to touch lightly on the topics of the day. But all is not idle chatter that passes at this hour of the morning snifter - lif...
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SUMMER MOONSHINE.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville.)

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: McCelland & Stewart, Toronto, (1938), first Canadian edition.:

Seller ID: 15793

312 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" h), hard cover (orange/red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. "An Englishman's home may be his castle, but to Sir Buckstone Abbott, Walsinford Hall was nothing but a blot on the landscape. With its glazed red bricks, its dome and minarets, it so jarred upon his sensitive soul that it was his avowed intention to unload the unsightly pile on the first prospective buyer. His chance came when the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek expressed the opinion that the Hall was 'cute' and began toying with the idea of purchasing it. A...
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VERY GOOD, JEEVES

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: McCelland & Stewart, Toronto, (1930), first Canadian edition.:

Seller ID: 15795

312 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" h), hard cover (red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. The further adventures of Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves. Interior - endpapers light browned, very small store stamp on free front endpaper, small light stain at top of pages 42/43 - migrates into adjacent pages. Exterior - moderate browning to edges of textblock, slight fading to spine color, light wrinkling on spine, book slightly cocked, minor discoloration on boards. VG-
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LAUGHING GAS.

By: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: McCelland & Stewart, Toronto, (1936), first Canadian edition.:

Seller ID: 15796

311 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" h), hard cover (orange cloth with black lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. "Dirty work in the Fourth Dimension was the cause of all the trouble. Somebody slipped up badly, the wires became crossed and an 'identity-switch' resulted. Briefly the facts were these. B.K. Burwash and I.J. Zizzbaum, fang-wrenching rivals of high repute, simultaneously performed their miracles of dental surgery on Joey Cooley, Hollywood's famous child star, and Reginald, third Earl of Havershot. And it was during the brief space of time that the gas administere...
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A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.

By: Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville. (P.G. Wodehouse)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: A.L. Burt, New York, (c1919), reprint by arrangement with George H. Doran.:

Seller ID: 15798

302 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" h), hard cover (buff cloth with black lettering on spine, decorative cartouche in orange and black on front board) - no dust jacket. P.G. Wodehouse's particular brand of humor, set as so often in the English countryside at the historic home of the Earls of Marshmoreton, Belpher Castle in Hampshire. Interior - previous owners name on front pastedown, free front endpaper missing, light browning to pages, light browning stains on copyright page and on a few other pages, book slightly cracked at two places, Exterior - heavy browning to edges of textblock, a few s...
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Keyword: Humorists