Search Results: ways of nature the writings of by john burroughs

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1905. Hardcover. Fair. Book shows heavy wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ boards scuffed and slightly soiled; moderate edge wear/ spine rubbed and soiled; faded/ corners and spine bumped and frayed/ usual library stamps and stickers; check-out envelope inside rear cover/ several pages and page tips creased

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin , 1905. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9100 shelf. Gold-stamped slate blue cloth, gilt top edge. Minor edgewear, slightly dulled spine. No names, clean text. Index, photogravures. Part of a uniform set.

New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1905. Hardcover, green cloth boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Essays on animal intelligence & communication, various bird species, a trip to Alaska, and more. 288 pages, index. Burroughs, 1827-1921, was an essayist, poet, and naturalist with a concrete, vivid, and easily readable style.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-08-19. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-08-19. Paperback. Good.

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New York, NY: Wm. H. Wise & Co, 1924. Wake-Robin Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Green patina black leatherette embossed with log cabin. Black and white frontis plate of John Burroughs, "A Bird in Sight." Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed.

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New York: Wm. H. Wise & Company. 1905. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Staining on spines and front/rear panels. .

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. Hardcover. Near fine. 6 x 9 in. Half black morocco with paper boards, raised spine bands and elaborate gilt spine decorations. Gilt upper text edge. Color plate and frontis photo of Burroughs. Very fine binding, unmarked. Condition is NEAR FINE ; leather supple, covers very clean, mild wear to edges. Binding tight and text spotless. Nature/Fine Bindings. RGR.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Literary Licensing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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