In the Catskills
by John Burroughs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Riverside, Cambridge, 1923. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. JOHN BURROUGHS. In the Catskills, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1923. Octavo, later printing of a 1910 book, pp. xii, 251, gray cloth boards with gilt lettering and fillets on front, green landscape and gilt frame on front, halftone photos by Clifton Johnson. The author, a leading American naturalist of the 19th century, was born in the Catskills and lived there much of his life, writing under the influence of Walt Whitman; Thoreau not so much. Condition: Good with sunned spine, worn at edges, 1 photo plate coming loose. Foxing to preliminaries and photo plates, images fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Environment & Ecology; United States; 1920s; Photography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55160. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55160
- Title
- In the Catskills
- Author
- John Burroughs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Riverside
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Environment & Ecology; United States; 1920s; Photography. Unbranded John Burroughs In the Catskills
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Warwick, New York
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Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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