Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1969.  Hard cover, 422 pages.  Green boards with gold lettering and design on spine; some corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Price-clipped dust jacket has edge and cover wear, some rubs; small losses and tears with some tears repaired on verso.  Prior owner’s name inked on front paste-down (hidden by front flap fold), bit of soil on outer page block; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Here is one of the funniest books of our times – the best of Stephen Leacock’s writings selected from more than a score of those laughter-provoking volumes with which the genial Canadian-American humorist has been delighting us these last three decades.  Included here for the first time in a single sumptuous volume are the cream of his hilarious nonsense novels, the uproarious burlesque dramas, the comic portrait of his remarkable uncle and of his fellow fishermen, …’ (from front flap)