Search Results: Titles starting with C from Shawn Donnille

Title: The Call of the Wild Author: London, Jack Publisher: Macmillan Company Date Published: 1903 Description:
[5]-231, [1] + [2] ad. pp. Illustrated with 11 color plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard, plus 5 color illustrations in the text, by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorations by Charles E. Hooper. (8vo) original vertically ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, white, and terra-cotta, top edge gilt. First Edition Second Printing
Jack London's best and most enduring work. BAL 11876; Sisson & Martens, p.13. Gift inscription from year of publication on recto of frontispiece
Condition: Light rubbing at extremities, slight lean, blocking rubbed a bit; front hinge just starting from foot; very good.

The Collector- David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet. Published by Sasquatch Books 2009. 1st Edition with jacket and signed by author Signed by the author on the title page. This copy is clean and crisp and appears to be unread. A stunning copy with just the slightest lean. A FINE copy

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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