Search Results: leaf and tendril the writings of by john burroughs

Kessinger Publishing, 2004-08-30. Paperback. Good.

Three nicely done volumes of classic nature writing by John Burroughs. Bindings are intact. Teal cloth boards are lightly soiled and show some edge wear. Gilet top edges. Front hinges gently cracked in volumes 1 and 15. Pencil notations on FFEPs and a few pages in each volume. Texts are lightly tanned. A few pages have been discolored by newspaper left between pages. Each volume includes 5 or 6 beautiful tissue guarded illustrations. Volume 1 contains a frontispiece portrait of Burroughs as a young man and Volume 15 of Burroughs in old age. No dust jackets. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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Nabu Press, 2012-04-09. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, 2004-08-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Riverside Press Fifteen hardcovers with dust jackets, dated 1904 -1909;---1. all books and DJs in the same Houghton Mifflin matched style, size and format: teal covers with top edge gilt and very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, plain beige DJs with black lettering to spine (laid in to Volume XV is an old plain brown envelope with "John Burroughs" written in ink on the front, containing two newspaper clippings from 1921 regarding Burroughs' death, and a tiny four-stanza poem by Burroughs also from a newspaper;---2. books range from 249 to 355 pages, plus tissue-guarded illustrations, some full colour;---3. all books in Very Good ++ condition, very gently used, tight in binding although some ever so slightly cocked, only tiny traces of shelf wear to cover corner tips and gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout (except pencil name/address on free front endpaper of Volume I), pages surprisingly fresh and white considering… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. An exceptional set. 1919 Hard Cover. Complete in twenty volumes, though additional volumes were released subsequently -- at the time of publication in 1919, this set comprised Burroughs entire body of work. Original turquoise cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Each volume includes black-and-white frontispiece and several photographic plates. John Burroughs was an influential naturalist in the 19th and early 20th century, particularly in his advocacy of environmental conservation, and is perhaps only overshadowed as a nature essayist by Henry David Thoreau. Each year, beginning in 1926, great works in natural history are awarded the John Burroughs Medal named in his honor. Includes: Wake Robin; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman; The Light of Day; Literary Values; Far and Near; Ways of Nature; Leaf… Read More