Search Results: the life and letters of john by barrus clara

Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Cloth. Fair. Ex-library book, large dark green cloth, rubbed gilt design at top front, all gilt gone on spine, damaged at inner front hinge, badly worn at tips, 3/4" wide tear at spine top left edge, tiny tear too, torn along spine bottom edge also. Fair copy, edited by relative of Burroughs.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good Book shows rubbing to top and bottom edges, spots on front panel. Hardcover, no dustwrapper. 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.

Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 883 pages- two volume set-very clean and nice. top edges gilt.covers show a bit of handling and corners show slight wear. shipping will be extra please inquire. ; Two Volume Set; 6 1/4 x 9 5/8

Russell & Russell 1968., 1968. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardcover. Fine. Publisher: Russell & Russell 1968. Binding: hardcovers, Condition: As New/Dust Jacket Included, Description: DJ actually brown paper with printed title.DJ small tear and slight wear on edge.

Pages 397 + 486 pp.Small 4to. Two volumes bound in matching green cloth. 1st ed. Illustrated. In fine condition.

New York: Russell & Russell. Vol 1 & 2. Spine ends rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, paper clip mark on first few pages of volume I else very good+. In lightly worn, very plain dust jackets with handwritten title on spine of volume I, now in protective covers. . Very Good +. Hardcover. reprint. 1968.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Green cloth with gilt stamping. Covers are slightly scuffed. Spine ends and cover corners are rubbed and scuffed. Previous owner book plates and a gift inscription on the front free end page of Volume I. The contents are bright and complete. Near Very Good set. .

Houghton Mifflin, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . 2 volume set complete. Spine,cover and edges shows wear. Former owner's name on front page. Pages are clean and intact.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine, bright copies in the original green cloth. 1925. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 397, 486 pp., Photogravure frontispiece in each volume plus 25 additional plates in the text .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print and scarce. Arguably the best biography of Burroughs ever written, by one who knew him. Illustrated by Photographs. First edition. Binding is Cloth Bds.

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A biography of John Burroughs in two volumes. Neither is signed, but laid into volume one is a one-page autographed letter signed (ALS) from Clara Barrus, John Burrough's close companion and the steward of his legacy as first assistant and then literary executor. It's addressed to the author of an article, "Burroughs, Unofficial Ambassador," that appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, presumably in 1928 the year the letter was written. She writes "I think Burroughs himself would have enjoyed it." Googling doesn't turn up the article, but surely it could be found; the author is apparently anonymous, though Barrus leads with initials: "J.P.S.E." (another hand has then written "= O.S." . . . a mystery). On letterhead reading "Woodchuck Lodge, Roxbury-in-the-Catskills" the home of Burroughs, the missive finishes: " As the biographer of J.B., many things written about him drift to me, & many of them are inaccurate and, in other… Read More