[Rarebooks] FS: THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR, 10 volumes, with a leaf of ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by 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 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 and rather 
uncommon in this condition. (#015341)        $2,500.00

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