[Rarebooks] FS: Original Manuscript Fragment of John Muir

[Charles Agvent]

MUIR, John. THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR: Volume I Only Containing a 
Manuscript Leaf. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 
First Edition. The first volume only of ten of The Manuscript Edition of 
Muir's Collected Works, this volume containing THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD 
AND YOUTH as well as A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF, and more 
importantly, a leaf of ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Muir. BAL 14775. Copy #655 
of 750 bound in the publisher's green cloth with a gilt-lettered leather 
spine label. Illustrated with plates. The leaf of original manuscript in 
this case contains 37 words, including a few corrections: "sprucy 
neatness of youth & wildness of old age form an interesting study. Its 
shy fashionable form begins to be broken up as soon as it becomes 
fruitful. Specialized branches are suddenly pushed out in the most..." A 
worn, ex-library (stamped "withdrawn") copy with the usual internal and 
external markings. Still about Very Good with the manuscript in close to 
Fine condition. (#020589) $750

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