Search Results: Short Circuits by Stephen Leacock

Dodd, Mead, 1928. Hardcover. Good.

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company. Good condition-cover rubbed, frayed, inside hinges weak/No Dustjacket. 1928. 8vo., 371 pp. .

First American edition, published by Dodd, Mead, 1928. No dust jacket. Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, wrote many satirical novels, there is also an award name in his honor given annually to encourage Canadian humor writing. This is one of his collections of short humorous stories and anecdotes, each just a few pages long. Red cloth covered boards, with the title and author name in black on the front cover and spine. The boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased. All lettering on the boards is crisp and not rubbed or worn. Just a few dots of edge wear to the head and heel of the spine and to the very tips of the corners. Former owner's name in very fine point fountain pen ink on the first blank flyleaf, dated 'Christmas 1928'. 372 pages, rough fore edged text block. Edges of the text are just age appropriate tanned. The binding is tight and square. The flyleaf pages have squares of age tanning marks. No further writing besides the signature, no writing on the text pages. This is not… Read More

Dodd Mead, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In red cloth. Name in ink. .

New York: Dodd, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Very good Brown stripes on front and back end papers. Bound in red cloth. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Light wear at the corners and spine ends and a bit of light offsetting on the flyleaves from jacket flaps, near fine lacking the jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dodd Mead, 1928. Cloth. Good+/Good. Red cloth, black titles. Clean and unmarked, minimal shelfwear, front flyleaf MISSING. Jacket somewhat yellowed, 1" x 1" chip at top of spine affecting title. Great artwork of a couple's "electrifying" touch.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Decorative red cloth stamped in black. Ownership blind stamp on front fly, binding slightly cocked with a faint crease on the spine, near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped-on to front fly.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Decorative red cloth stamped in black, unsigned. Contemporary owner's name penned on front pastedown, cloth edges faded, gutter starting, else very good. In a good only dust jacket with some loss along the extremities affecting spine title. Scarce in jacket.

NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. 1st Printing; dj w/chippiing along the top edge, unclipped price, in mylar; red c w/black titles; 372 clean, unmarked pages; owner's insc in pencil. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928 very good edition of early Leacock item. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Bodley Head, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Printing of First British Edition. Just very good, with bumped extremities, rubbed and grubby cloth binding, and several spot stained pages. Inscribed by Leacock to his sister, and dated 1929. Rare thus..