THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR
MUIR, John
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924. First Edition Complete in ten volumes, The Manuscript Edition of Muir's Collected Works containing a leaf of ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Muir in the first volume. BAL 14775. Copy #684 of 750 bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine labels. Nicely illustrated with numerous plates including photogravures after photographs by Herbert Gleason and others as well as maps. The finest set of Muir's writings published enhanced by the leaf of original manuscript, in this case a fine example containing about 55 words, including a few corrections: "the climbing to any dangerous extent; &/as the weather was profoundly calm, & the/distance to the base of the mountain/only a little more than a day, I was/running no great risk of being caught in a storm./Ritter is King of the Alps & had never/been climbed. I had explored the." Spines mildly and evenly sunned, slight chipping to some spine labels. Near Fine (Item ID: 015341)
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