[Rarebooks] FS: Writings of John Muir with fine manuscript excerpt on mountain climbing
Charles Agvent
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Fri Nov 13 17:34:30 EST 2009
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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 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. $2,500.00
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