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Sale 322 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Aug 6, 2014 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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(BINDINGS) BURROUGHS, JOHN The Writings of John Burroughs. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin; The Riverside Press, 1904.19 vols. 8vo, crushed green morocco with gilt-arabesque design to corners of covers, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, elaborately gilt inner-dentelles and gilt-doublures stamped with floral design to four corners, silk endpapers, t.e.g. Autograph edition, number 720 of 750 copies signed by John Burroughs and Houghton Mifflin on a special etched autograph page with an illustration by W.H.W. Bicknell in vol. I, "Wake-Robin." With frontispiece and photogravures from photographs by Herbert Gleason, Clifton Johnson and others. Minor edgewear.

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