[Rarebooks] FS: Kimes, John Muir Bibliography

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

[MUIR, John]  KIMES, William F. (1907-1998) and KIMES, Maymie B. (1909-2002). 

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography. 

Palo Alto, CA: William P. Wreden, 1977. 

4to.  (xx), 211, [1 blank] pp.  Limitation page, list of subscribers, half-title, black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Muir, title page printed in black and brown with a Muir bronze bas-relief vignette, 24 illustrations, chronology, index; text clean, unmarked.  Quarter beige cloth, pictorial paper over boards, gilt spine, original plain white dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket soiled with small tears at the margins but now nicely preserved in archival mylar.  SIGNED by the Authors and Grant Dahlstrom on the limitation page.  Very Good. 

LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies, printed by Grant Dahlstrom on Mohawk Superfine Text in Linotype Janson and Linotype Trump Medieval.   Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.  This is the foremost reference work for researchers and collectors of John Muir.  Bill Kimes was an educator, author, book collector, and community college administrator.  He and his wife Mayme owned the largest private collection of John Muir memorabilia. 


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