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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs - 2 volumes, complete (Signed by Barrus) by Barrus, Clara - 1925

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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs - 2 volumes, complete (Signed by Barrus)

by Barrus, Clara

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Out of print and scarce. Arguably the best biography of Burroughs ever written, by one who knew him. Illustrated by Photographs. First edition. Binding is Cloth Bds.
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin
  • Place of Publication Boston
  • Date Published 1925
  • Keywords MWBH LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS.
  • Size Octavo

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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs

by Barrus, Clara

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Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 883 pages- two volume set-very clean and nice. top edges gilt.covers show a bit of handling and corners show slight wear. shipping will be extra please inquire. ; Two Volume Set; 6 1/4 x 9 5/8
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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN BURROUGHS.

by Barrus, Clara

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Pages 397 + 486 pp.Small 4to. Two volumes bound in matching green cloth. 1st ed. Illustrated. In fine condition.
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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN BURROUGHS (2 VOLUMES)

by Barrus, Clara

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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Green cloth with gilt stamping. Covers are slightly scuffed. Spine ends and cover corners are rubbed and scuffed. Previous owner book plates and a gift inscription on the front free end page of Volume I. The contents are bright and complete. Near Very Good set. .
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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (Two Volumes)

by Barrus, Clara

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine, bright copies in the original green cloth. 1925. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 397, 486 pp., Photogravure frontispiece in each volume plus 25 additional plates in the text .
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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs - 2 volumes, complete (Signed by Barrus)

by Barrus, Clara

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print and scarce. Arguably the best biography of Burroughs ever written, by one who knew him. Illustrated by Photographs. First edition. Binding is Cloth Bds.
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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (with signed ALS from Barrus)
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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (with signed ALS from Barrus)

by Barrus, Clara (signed); John Burroughs

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NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A biography of John Burroughs in two volumes. Neither is signed, but laid into volume one is a one-page autographed letter signed (ALS) from Clara Barrus, John Burrough's close companion and the steward of his legacy as first assistant and then literary executor. It's addressed to the author of an article, "Burroughs, Unofficial Ambassador," that appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, presumably in 1928 the year the letter was written. She writes "I think Burroughs himself would have enjoyed it." Googling doesn't turn up the article, but surely it could be found; the author is apparently anonymous, though Barrus leads with initials: "J.P.S.E." (another hand has then written "= O.S." . . . a mystery). On letterhead reading "Woodchuck Lodge, Roxbury-in-the-Catskills" the home of Burroughs, the missive finishes: " As the biographer of J.B., many things written about him drift to me, & many of them are inaccurate and, in other… Read More
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