YEAR IN THE FIELDS: Selections From the Writings of John Burroughs
by Burroughs, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. 220 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine and edges darkened. Light wear to top of spine. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Clifton Johnson. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 352
- Title
- YEAR IN THE FIELDS: Selections From the Writings of John Burroughs
- Author
- Burroughs, John
- Illustrator
- Clifton Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY BURROUGHS JOHN 1837 1921 AMERICAN NATURALIST WRITER ESSAYIST OUTDOORS AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Autobiography;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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"...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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