About this title: Renowned as a pioneer of the new school of nature writing and among the most widely read authors of his time, John Burroughs has had a profound influence on our appreciation of nature. "Signs and Seasons", originally published in 1886, provides an excellent introduction to the extensive work of one of America's great writers. Because the essays were collected and arranged by Burroughs himself, they offer a synoptic view of his complex and many-sided genius. "Signs and Seasons" covers a wide range of Burroughs's interests including plants and animals, the wilderness, pastoral landscapes, and ...
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060908409ISBN:0060908408
Description: Zwinger, Ann. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Good Copy. Clean and Unmarked. Binding is tight. Spine is square and has creasing, and wear, trade paperback. Glued binding. 300 p. Harper Nature Library. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060908409ISBN:0060908408
Description: Zwinger, Ann (illustrator) Good. As issued No Jacket. Classic book of nature writing. Dime sized(though oblong shaped) area of cover is scuffed off, remainder mark bottom edge, and some other light to moderate shopwear, otherwise clean(this was my copy that I bought new out of a publisher's remainder/hurt books table 20 years ago( and of course never read). read more
Description: Zwinger, Ann. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. very slightest of rubs else like new. 300 p. Harper Nature Library. Includes Illustrations. read more
Description: FINE-/pb. Nineteenth century author's classic essays on the seasons in the Northeast. Illustrations by Ann Zwinger for this new (1981) edition. Excellent condition. No marks, creases, or curls, straight, bright, lt. wear and page toning. 1981, Harper trade paperback, 1st printing (No.1), 290 pp. ISBN 0060908408 read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.
Description: -Octavo, olive green cloth backed with dark greenish brown cloth & titled in gilt on the spine with a decoration in black on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The binding is very lightly rubbed & bumped. [iv] & 289 pages. There is minor foxing to the top edges of the front pastedown & endpaper & a tiny stain to the first leaf of the text. There is offsetting to pages 180-81, probably from a newsclipping. Very good. read more
Description: First edition; 289, [4] (ads) pp., original cloth, covers rubbed & darkened, good only *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1893
Description: Houghton Mifflin. Boston, 1893. Sage, prophet, & naturalist Burroughs (1837-1921) friends with Whitman & Roosevelt, lived (1895) in an isolated cabin called 'Slabsides' that was nestled under maple trees. In this work, Burruoughs reminisceses about the Maine woods, birds, farm life, the seasons, animals signs. Very Good in olive green spine over green boards, title in green Small octavo. Ex-lib. 289pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dodo Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781409920649ISBN:140992064X
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1895
Description: Good+ [6], 271 pages, frontispiece, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: " John Burroughs, 1837-1921, American naturalist and author, b. Roxbury, N. Y.; son of a farmer. He was a journalist, a treasury clerk in Washington, and a bank examiner, before settling in 1874 on a farm near Esopus, N. Y. There he studied fruit culture and literature. His first book, Walt Whitman, Poet and Person (1867), was the first to ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781434497895ISBN:1434497895
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Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00162 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
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