Works of John Burroughs - Set of 15 (WORKS OF JOHN BURROUGHS) by JOHN BURROUGHS - 1904-01-01

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Light blue bindings with gilt titles. All of the volumes have light shelfwear / rubbing to spine bottoms and most have some rubbing to spine tops. Three volumes have small light stains on spines and two volumes have very minor ripples on spine cloth. A clean, unmarked set in tight bindings. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall .

Boston and New York/ Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin/ The Riverside Press . Like New. Near Fine/Like New 15 volume hard cover set of The Writings of John Burroughs. Aqua cloth bindings with gilt titled spines and gilt top edges. All volumes with tissue covered Frontispiece. Riverby Edition. With portraits and many illustrations. Each volume with its own Index. Clean. Tight bindings. No markings. Over 2,000 pages of Burroughs writings. Various dates. Circa 1913.(MEDIA MAIL ONLY FOR THIS HEAVY SET)

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin. AS NEW book, VG+ DJ. Laid in Democratic National Committee note.. (1964). 1st ed 4th prt. Hardcover. AS NEW book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart). Johnson inscribed & SIGNED half title page with a blue felt tipped pen. 1st ed, 4th prntg. . DJ with $5 price, extrems with minor wear. Half tp: "To Howard J. Samuels, with best wishes, Lyndonbjohnson". A laid in news artical states Samuels served as undersecretary of Commerce and chief of the Small Business Administration under Johnson. In WWII he had been a colonel in Patton's Third Army. He was an American statesman, industrialist and civil rights activist. He had been an advisor to John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. Also laid in is a typed note, in FINE condition, from the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, John J. Bailey, stating "The President has personally autographed this copy for you." The book itself is flawless. Very tight, it stays closed when stood on its spine, so likely never… Read More

Boston: New York: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1907. Riverby edition. Hardcover. Fine. Boston: New York: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1907. Riverby edition. Fine. No dust jacket.. 15 volume set. 3 p. l., 235, [1] p. front. 19 cm. In Writings of John Burroughs v. IV.. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1905. Hardcover. Ill. : Illustrated. This antique hardcover 15-volume set is bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and decoration, gilt top of pages, rough cut pages. This is a complete set of the Riverby Edition of the collected works of John Burroughs. Illustrated with photos and plates. Frontis Picture is tissue guarded. The set is in Fine + condition overall; some very minor edgewear, corners bumped, previous owners name on inside blank page. Many books appear never to have been read, as the spine is very tight. Each book is approx. 5"x7.5". Books titles included are: Indoor Studies, Birds and Poets, Fresh Fields, The Summit of the Years, Time and Change, Pepacton, Signs and… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889-1891. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 5.5". None. A very scarce eight volume collection of the writings of this American naturalist and conservationist, in smart half calf bindings. A very scarce set of the writings of John Burroughs, an American naturalist, nature essayist and conservationist, identified by his biographer as 'a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world'.Burroughs' body of work was exceptionally popular in his lifetime, however has faded to relative obscurity since.Present here, published between 1889 and 1891, are eight volumes of Burroughs' works, including Wake-Robin, Locusts and Wild Honey, Fresh Fields, Winter Sunshine, Birds and Poets, Indoor Studies, Signs and Seasons and Prepacton.With a small number of vignette illustrations to both Wake-Robin and Winter Sunshine. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Significant rubbing to the leather, most concentrated to… Read More