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"you see stretching from the spurs of Ritter a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires": The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir; with an original autograph manuscript page from Muir's The Mountains of California
MUIR, JOHN.
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1916-24.
The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir, one of 750 numbered sets produced with an original autograph manuscript page bound into the first volume. Octavo, 10 volumes in the publisher’s deluxe three quarter crushed levant morocco over cloth boards with gilt titles and tulip stamping to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in, illustrated with 69 photogravures, including colored frontispiece, 34 halftone plates of the author’s sketches, 7 maps, and 2 plates of his drawings.
One of 750 numbered sets with an original manuscript page bound into the first volume, this is number 589. A portion of the original manuscript of The Mountains of California, the manuscript page describes, in part, Muir’s experience climbing Mt. Langley in 1871 (published in part as last paragraph on pp. 76 in Vol. IV): “…you see stretching from the spurs of Ritter a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires in the foreground rising to a height of about a thousand feet from a series of short glaciers that lean back against their bases.”
Edited by William Frederic Badè. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $10,000.00 Item Number: 143457
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“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant": First Edition of John Muir's Travels in Alaska
MUIR, JOHN.
Travels in Alaska.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1915.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few small chips. The nicest example we have seen of the rare dust jacket.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 139821
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"The prophet of the wilderness": Rare John Muir ephemera collection including numerous rare articles, periodicals and facsimile printings
MUIR, JOHN.
John Muir Ephemera Collection.
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Rare collection of ephemera related to American naturalist John Muir. The collection includes a variety of periodicals articles, exhibition guides, and proof sheets including: John Muir 1838-1914: Keepsake for the Roxburghe-Zamorano Biennial Joint Meeting of 1996; The Presence of Mr. Muir. Keepsake for the John Muir Observance at Yosemite National Park, April 21-30, 1972, signed by publishers Bill Lane and Lew Osborne; John Muir: His World Exhibition pamphlet [Vacaville, California: Vacaville Museum, 1987]; Yosemite Earthquake Storms [Muir, John. Wawona Press, 1993. First state No. 1 of 3]; Reference List to the Published Writings of John Muir [Bradley, Cornelius B. Sierra Madre: Wawona Press, 1993]; Program of Activities for the John Muir Observance at Yosemite National Park, April 21-30, 1972; Twenty Hill Hollow [Muir, John. Wawona Press, 1998. Facsimile reprint]; Yosemite Nature Notes. Volume 17, No. 4, April 1938: “John Muir Number, Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth – April 21”; A Great Defender of The Animal Creation: John Muir about 1910 Prophet of the Wilderness [Destler, Paul. Banning, Calif.: Educational Foundation of the Desert Protective Council, Inc., 1962]; and a set of Set of color proof sheets from Emily McCully’s Squirrel and John Muir. A fascinating archive documenting the broad scope of Muir’s influence and work.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 126971
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First edition of John Muir's The Boyhood of a Naturalist
MUIR, JOHN.
The Boyhood of a Naturalist: Being Selected Chapters From “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth”.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1913.
First edition of this brief biography in The Riverside Literature Series collection. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In good condition. Ex-library. Scarce.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 126476
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First Edition of John Muir's The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; in the rare original dust jacket
MUIR, JOHN.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1913.
First edition, first issue of Muir’s autobiography of his youth with the biting criticism of his neighbor’s treatment of his son on p. 217: “…none was bold enough or kind enough to break the blacksmith’s jaw” (Kimes 315) . Octavo, original illustrated green cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Muir, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 126377
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Rare collection of periodicals containing first and early appearances of articles by or about John Muir; including his landmark article "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park"
MUIR, JOHN.
John Muir Periodical Collection.
: Various Publishers 1872-1977.
Rare collection of periodicals containing first and early appearances of articles by or about John Muir. Octavo, 20 volumes, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes: The Overland Monthly. Volume 9, No. 6, Number 43 [John H. Carmany & Co., San Francisco, December 1872] which contains Muir’s “Living Glaciers of California”; The Overland Monthly. Volume 13, No. 2, Number 74 [John H. Carmany & Co., San Francisco, August 1874] which contains Muir’s “Studies in the Sierra, No. IV, Glacial Denudation”; Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Volume 57, No. 342 [Harper & Brothers, New York, November 1878] which contains Muir’s “The New Sequoia Forests of California”; The Californian Illustrated Magazine. Volume 2, No. 1 [The California Publishing Co., San Francisco, June 1892] which contains Jean Carr’s “John Muir”; The Century Magazine. Volume 40, No. 5, [The Century Co., New York, September 1890] which contains Muir’s landmark article “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park”; Muir’s “A Rival of the Yosemite, The Canon of the South Fork of King’s River, California” removed from an issue of The Century Magazine; The Craftsman. Volume 7, No 6 [Gustav Stickley, Syracuse, March 1905] which contains George Wharton James’ “John Muir: Geologist, Explorer, Naturalist”; French Strother’s “A Conversation with John Muir” removed from a 1906 issue of World’s Work; Sierra Club Bulletin. Volume 10, No. 1 [Publications of the Sierra Club Number 51, San Francisco, January 1916] which contains “John Muir Memorial Number”; Natural History, Volume 20, No. 2, March-April 1920 which contains William Frederic Bade’s “Yosemite and John Muir”; and several other volumes. In very good to near fine condition. Rare and desirable, particularly containing the rare first appearance of Muir’s landmark work “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park”.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 126180
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“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant": First Edition of John Muir's Travels in Alaska
MUIR, JOHN.
Travels in Alaska.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1915.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 125110
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First Edition of John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
MUIR, JOHN.
A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1916.
First edition of this work by Muir. Octavo, original green cloth, color pictorial cover label, lettered in white, top edge gilt. Edited with an introduction by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; map. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 124411
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“THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING AND I MUST GO": JOHN MUIR'S THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
MUIR, JOHN.
The Mountains of California.
New York: The Century Co 1922.
New and enlarged edition of Muir’s first book. Octavo, original pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 126367
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Large Paper Copy of John Muir's The Cruise of the Corwin; One of Five Hundred and Fifty Copies
MUIR, JOHN.
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 In Search of De Long and the Jeannette.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1917.
First edition, large paper copy, one of five hundred and fifty copies, this is number 272. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from sketches by Muir. In near fine condition. Kimes 348; BAL 14775
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 120838