Leacock, Stephen

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

Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. American. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

Publisher’s Grey Linen with stamped red titles, 8vo; 7.875 inches tall, 272 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Light shelf handling wear. The wrap-around pictorial map dust jacket with the price of $2.00 intact has modest edge wear with loss on the spine tips.

Written during a lecture tour of Western Canada, My Discovery of the West captures Stephen’s Leacock’s musings on the different regions of Canada and their differing social and political issues. First published in 1937, My Discovery of the West was awarded a Governor General’s Award. [gb]

Item #19283

Price: $29.95