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Lot 11
MUIR, JOHN The Writings of John Muir. Manuscript Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924. One of 750 sets, this set with two volume ones (i.e. with two leaves of manuscript, one in each volume), and two volume twos. Ten volumes (plus the additional volumes noted above), publisher's green buckram with brown leather spine labels. 9 x 6 inches (22.5 x 15 cm); illustrated with sepia-tone frontispieces, and plates, maps etc.. Volume I: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth/A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 428 pp., 1916. Volume II: My First Summer in the Sierra, 271 pp., 1916. Volume III: Travels In Alaska, 399 pp., 1916. Volume IV: The Mountains of California, Volume 1, 301 pp. 1916. Volume V: The Mountains of California, Volume II, 309 pp., 1916. Volume VI: Our National Parks, 400 pp., 1916. Volume VII: (edited by William Frederic Bade) The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette, 304 pp., 1918. Volume VIII: Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Canon, 391 pp., 1918. Volume IX: The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume I (by William Frederic Bade), 399 pp., 1923. Volume X: The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume II (by William Frederic Bade), 454 pp., 1924. Some fading and wear. Generally a sound set.
The two manuscripts in the first volumes are from The Mountains of California; one is from chapter 6, "The Glacier Lakes"; the other from chapter 16, "The Bee-Pastures."
C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman
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