The Writings of John Burroughs (Volumes I through XV)
by Burroughs, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copies in very good dust jackets
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine copies in very good dust jackets. 1904-8. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, Bound in light blue cloth, top edge gilt, with relatively plain dust jackets (lettered spines and plain panels), Fifteen volumes of the Riverby Edition; eight additional volumes were published later. Some of the dust jackets have light chipping at extremities, a couple with small pieces missing. Etched portrait frontispiece by Bicknell in volume I and many photogravures & other illustrations (some by Louis Agassiz Fuertes) throughout .
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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS042029I
- Title
- The Writings of John Burroughs (Volumes I through XV)
- Author
- Burroughs, John
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copies in very good dust jackets
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1904-8
- Bookseller catalogs
- natural history;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...