[Rarebooks] FS: Manuscript Edition of the Writings of JOHN MUIR

[Charles Agvent]

   MUIR, John. THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR. Boston & New York: Houghton 
Mifflin Company, 1916-1924. First Edition. Complete in ten volumes, The 
Manuscript Edition of Muir's Collected Works contains a leaf of ORIGINAL 
MANUSCRIPT by Muir in the first volume. BAL 14775. Copy #268 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 which here contains about 30 words, including a few 
corrections: "...spicy fragrance. In its prime/the whole tree is 
thatched with/them, so that they shed off/rain + snow like a roof, 
making/fine mansions for stormbound/birds + mountaineers." Spines mildly 
and evenly sunned. About Fine. cloth.	$2,500.00

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