Photos: John Burroughs

BURROUGHS, John (1837 - 1921) [Link to Catalogue]

Walt Whitman as Poet and Person

1867 - First edition. Burroughs' self-published first book of which he himself said there were only a few copies printed. Inscribed to JB's very close friend Myron Benton, with whom JB first read Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."

Wake-Robin

1871 - First edition. Published by Hurd & Houghton, Boston. Inscribed to Joel Benton, writer, lecturer and poet - cousin of Myron Benton

Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt

1906 - First edition. Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York. Inscribed by Roosevelt, with a funny, acerbic handwritten note by JB, written 20+ years before the book was published, tipped in

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Compilations

John James Audubon

1902 - Large paper edition limited to 350 copies. First? Published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston and New York as part of the Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans series. Dedication copy. Inscribed to dedicatee Clara Barrus, JB's friend, secretary, traveling companion, biographer, literary executor and presumed mistress. This is the only book JB ever dedicated to any person (he dedicated a book of poetry to a bird)

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COMPILATIONS OF BURROUGHS' WRITINGS [Link to Catalogue]

A Year in the Fields: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

1896 - First edition. Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Riverside Press, Boston and New York. Long handwritten profile about JB by book's illustrator and writer of Introduction. Interesting Provenance

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WORKS TO WHICH BURROUGHS CONTRIBUTED OR WHICH HE EDITED [Link to Catalogue]

Contributions

In Nature's Laboratory

A privately published, beautifully executed photo album and narrative account of a two-week car camping trip (from Aug 28 to Sept 9, 1916) which included Burroughs, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone, signed by each.

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Our Vacation Days of 1918

A privately published, beautifully executed photo album and narrative account of a two-week car camping trip including Burroughs (who wrote the narrative), Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, Firestone's son, and Robert DeLoach of Armour Co. Published sometime after Burroughs' death and dedicated to him. A small card reading "Harvey S. Firestone" laid in.

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Peckham, George and Elizabeth

PECKHAM, George W. and Elizabeth G. [Link to Catalogue]

On the Instincts and Habits of Solitary Wasps

1898 - First edition. Published by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (Bulletin No. 2, Scientific Series No. 1). Presented by authors to Burroughs, with his bookplate, annotations and an early 180-word draft of an important essay on the last two endpapers

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