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The Writings of John Burroughs
de John Burroughs
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- Bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bueno
- Librería
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1904-13. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated . A beautiful fifteen volume set of the works of John Burroughs in uniform morocco bindings. Fifteen volumes of the works of John Burroughs bound in uniform half morocco with spine details in gilt. The Riverby edition with introduction to the Riverside edition. John Burroughs was an American naturalist active during the conservation movement in the United States. His work was reflective of a cultural movement and was extremely popular in its time. Comprising the following:Wake Robin, reprint of 1913. With frontispiece and five full page plates. Collated, complete.Winter Sunshine, reprint of 1904. With frontispiece and five full page plates. Collated, complete. Birds and Poets, reprint of 1904. With coloured frontispiece and five full page plates in black and white. Collated, complete. Locusts and Wild Honey, reprint of 1907. With a frontispiece and five full page plates. Collated, complete. Pepacton, reprint of 1909. With a frontispiece and six full page plates. Collated, complete.Fresh Fields, reprint of 1912. With a frontispiece and seven full page plates. Collated, complete. Signs and Seasons, reprint of 1914. With a frontispiece and six full page plates. Collated, complete. Indoor Studies, reprint of 1904. With a frontispiece and six full page plates. Collated, complete.Riverby, reprint of 1904. With a frontispiece and five full page plates. Collated, complete. Literary Values, reprint of 1904. With a frontispiece and one full page plate. Collated, complete.Far and Near, reprint of 1904. With a frontispiece and nine full page plates, of which one in colour. Collated, complete. Ways of Nature, first edition of 1905. With a frontispiece and five full page plates. Collated, complete. Leaf and Tendril, first edition of 1908. With a frontispiece and four full page plates. Collated, complete. Time and Change, first edition of 1912. With a frontispiece and fur full page plates. Collated, complete. The Summit of the Years, first edition of 1913. With a frontispiece and four full page plates. Collated, complete. in uniform half morocco bindings over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, gilt tooling to spine, gilt to top edge. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly rubbed to extremities of boards and spine. Few newspaper cuttings concerned with John Burroughs pasted to front and rear blank leaves vol. I. Minor faint staining mark to first few leaves vol. I, not affecting any of the text. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Near Fine
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- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 844A56
- Título
- The Writings of John Burroughs
- Autor
- John Burroughs
- Ilustrador
- Not Stated
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston and New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1904-13
- Tamaño
- 7.5" by 5"
- Palabras clave
- john burroughs natural sciences natural history sets natural sciences
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Marbled boards
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
