The Mountains of California
New York: The Century Co., 1907.
First edition, sixth printing. Signed by John Muir on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a previous owner (recipient's name in different ink and hand) with date November 12, 1909. xiii, [3], 381 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with pictorial stamping in black and green. Good with lean to spine, cloth soiled, darkened and rubbed. Light toning and occasional thumbing to contents, bookseller ticket to back pastedown. Kimes 189.
A rare signed early printing of one of Muir's most popular books, containing some of his finest writing from the 1870s and 1880s.
Price: $4,800