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Author: Muir, John
Title: The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1916-24
Description:

10 volumes. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards, each with photogravure frontispiece; maps, including a 2 folding maps. 23x15 cm. (9x6), green cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. No. 233 of 750 sets of the Manuscript Edition.

With a manuscript leaf by Muir mounted to front preliminary flyleaf of Volume I, which reads: "climbs storm-swept ridges & wanders out among the volcanoes of the great basin. Whether exposed to extremes of heat  or cold it is dwarfed like every" (stopping mid-sentence). Kimes 341. Formerly in the California Room of the Sunnyvale Public Library, with spine labels, pockets on rear endpapers, reference stickers on front endpapers, rubberstamps on title-pages. Deaccessioned from the library and sold to benefit the Friends of the Sunnyvale Public Library.

Fading to spines, rubbing and a few small chips to leather spine labels, some covers with scratching and fading; very good, ex-library copies with markings.