My First Summer in the Sierra.

MUIR, John.

Item Number: 126323

San Francisco: A Yolla Bolly Press Book Published by Sierra Club Books, 1988.

First trade edition of the Sierra Club’s reproductions of the commemorative Yolla Bolly edition of Muir’s classic work. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with twelve wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Foreword and a note on the text by Frederick Turner. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

"Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality" (John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra). This commemorative edition of the classic, My First Summer in the Sierra, reproduces the acclaimed limited edition published by The Yolla Bolly Press on the 150th anniversary of John Muir's birth.