INSCRIBED BY CLARA BARRUS WITH TIPPED-IN PHOTO OF BURROUGHS

BARRUS, Clara. John Burroughs Boy and Man. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1920. Octavo, original green cloth. $550.

First edition, inscribed by Barrus to naturalist T. Gilbert Pearson: "To Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, friend of the birds, & of `John o' Birds,' with the cordial regard of Clara Barrus, Woodchuck Lodge, Roxbury in the Catskills, July 19, 1921," and with a photograph of Burroughs mounted on front pastedown, which bears a separate note mounted underneath by Barrus which reads, "I have no snapshot of myself that is not too painful to me to think of giving it away- C.B."

Barrus was a young physician working at a mental hospital when she first met the aging Burroughs, and soon became his acolyte, lover, and constant companion. After his death she devoted herself to preserving his legacy. John Burroughs Boy and Man was the second work she published on Burroughs, after the 1914 Our Friend John Burroughs.

Inner hinges expertly reinforced, cloth with wear to spine ends, a few tiny white spots. A very good copy.