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Muir, John. Travels In Alaska - 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1915 Houghton large paper edition #135 of 450 ex convent library copy with bookplate to front paste down, pocket to rear paste down, call letters inked to base of spine. Leather spine label dried and quite worn. No marks to text plates intact. No jacket.B32 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited to 300 copies. A very good clean copy of this fragile book. There is a 1915 owner's inscription on the endpaper, minor foxing on the inner page margins of the first 18 pages, and light wear on the spine tips and fore-corners. There are no marks or stains in the text. A nice copy of John Muir's scarcest book.
Seller: AMARANTH BOOKS, Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Letters to a Friend Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr 1866-1879. Houghton Mifflin, 1915.
Price: US$455.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark green boards lightly bowed, edgestains to edge of front and rear board, front free endpaper, following two blank page edges. Text not affected. Owner bookplate, owner name, date front free endpaper. Binding tight, textblock unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In original slate-green laid paper boards with printed label on spine; pages of laid paper watermarked with a chained gate. Deckle page edges. First edition limited to 300 copies. (6) , 194pp. From Kimes Bibliography, "These letters reveal a warm and lasting friendship. They clearly show the influence of a wise and cultured woman on the development of a Wisconsin immigrant farm boy who became an accomplished writer and naturalist sought by men of prominence. Mrs. Carr, an ardent lover of nature and intensely interested in botany, was a sympathetic listener, ever ready with encouragement, assistance, and guidance. She had a strong faith in Muir's extraordinary capabilities and his ultimate achievements. Her profound influence on his life makes this book of letters one of the most important in the study of John Muir. Although this book was published posthumously, the contents had been carefully selected by John Muir." Book-plate of California mountaineer Vernon Howard inside front cover. California, Travel, Geology, Science; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1294.80 + shipping
Description: Complete in 10 volumes. The uniform edition of John Muir's Works, the great Scottish-American naturalist, published posthumously. Includes the following: Vol I: The Story of my Boyhood and Youth; Vol II: My First Summer in the Sierra; Vol III: Travels in Alaska; Vol IV: The Mountains of California, I; Vol V: The Mountains of California, II; Vol VI: Our National Parks; Vol VII: The Cruise of the Corwin; Vol VIII: Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon; Vol IX: The Life and Letters of John Muir, I (by William Frederic Bade); and Vol X: The Life and Letters of John Muir, II. Condition notes: Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., large frontis in each volume; a.e. modestly sunned; various owners' info (1 to 3 prior owners) inked or labeled to front eps in every volume. Cover: green silk, California poppy in gilt to front, gilt titles spine; lt shelfwear, extrems mildly worn. Exteriors really very nice with lovely bright gilt. Interior text unmarked, but eps have multiple owner identifications. Dates range fom 1915 to 1924.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.