Search Results: writings far and near by john burroughs

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin-Riverside Press, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2, 298 pgs, b&w photos with tissue protectors. Early 20th century natural history.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904. Riverby Edition. Full cloth binding, lightly rubbed. Gilt upper page edges. Internally clean and unmarked. 287pp. Illustrations.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. 1904 Riverby edition. Dark turquoise boards, gilt titling to spine. Solid binding, rubbed edges. Name stamped inside front cover, text unmarked. ; Works; 7.50 X 5.0 X 0.75 inches; 288 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. A very nice copy. Bound in blueish cloth with gilt spine lettering. Volume 13 only..

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Light Tanning From Age, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, Tight, And Solid Copy.

Houghton Mifflin. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. 0548033684 . Some cover stains. Same as later reprint. ; 287 pages .

Houghton Mifflin, 1904. Hard cover. Very Good. 0 Very good. No dust jacket.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-07-25. Hardcover. Good.

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

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

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panels are dust-toned as with age. Spine bands are worn. Physical description: 287 pages. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: John Burroughs.

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

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Paperback / softback. New.

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