Complete Works in 23 volumes Riverby Edition
by John Burroughs
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About This Item
Title: The Writings of John Burroughs
Author: Burroughs, John
Place Published: Boston
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: [1904]
Description: 23 volumes. (Small 8vo) original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. The Riverby Edition. John Burroughs (1837–1921) was an American nature writer and acolyte of Walt Whitman. He brought a scientific rigor to the literature of the wild denouncing the sentimentality and anthropomorphism of such writers as Ernest Thompson Seton in the 1904 essay Real and Sham Natural History. A few years earlier he had been the official historian of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska
Condition: Light wear only; very good to near fine.
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- Bookseller
- Shawn Donnille (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00080
- Title
- Complete Works in 23 volumes Riverby Edition
- Author
- John Burroughs
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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