The Writings of John Muir: the Manuscript Edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
Manuscript edition, copy #414 of 750. Includes a piece of John Muir's original handwritten manuscript mounted at the front of the first volume, the beginning lines of chapter four of The Mountains of California: "Early one bright morning in Autumn while the glacier meadows were still crisp with frost crystals I set out from the foot of Mount Lyell on my way down to the Yosemite Valley. I had spent the greater portion of the summer [.]" Complete in ten volumes, bound in publisher's green cloth with leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Illustrated with photo frontispieces. Very Good+ with sunned spines, labels rubbed and worn, a few small stains to cloth, contents unmarked and in some cases pages unopened. Offsetting from photos. A limited edition collection of the great conservationist's works with his holograph manuscript.
Price: $6,500.00