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  “To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit": First edition of John Burroughs' Wake-Robin

  BURROUGHS, John.

  Wake-Robin.

  New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press, 1871.

  First edition of the author's first commercially published book in BAL's binding A; the most elaborate of the three variant first edition bindings, of which there is no known priority. BAL 2135. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition with the gilt decorations very bright. Housed in a custom folding chemise case.

  Price: $400.00     Item Number: 139475

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