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Muir, John. Steep Trails. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Later printing. Lacking dj. Nice gift note inked on front flyleaf. Full cloth binding. 390pp. Photographs. Edited by William Frederic Bade. The papers broght together in this volume span a period of 29 years. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall

Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. Steep Trails: California Utah Nevada Washington Oregon The Grand Canon. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Limited Edition 50/380. A readers copy in poor condition (see pictures). Newspaper clippings & old postage stamps pasted to pastedowns & endpapers. Heavy tanning on several pages throughout from newspaper clippings laid in. otherwise Text and images unmarked. Previous owners name on ffep.

Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Muir, John. Steep Trails. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Later Edition/Printing. In green pictorial cloth with green illustrations and titling. Light edgewear to spine ends. Owner's name, date, address and "yosemite - 43" to top of ffep. A small rectangular stain to bottom of ffep where something was laid in place for a while, also tape stains(not scars) to top and bottom of endpapers - assuming where protected jacket rested. Bug hole to top inside of front hinge and rear hinge is beginning to split at top, but still solid. Interior and exterior very clean otherwise. Jacket is very nice with just a few small chip/nicks to spine ends, corners, and top of front flap, and two 1/2 inch closed tears to top of rear panel and top of rear flap. Later edition/printing based on date of book advertised on rear flap and owner's date - 1925 at the earliest. Three period photos from previous owner laid in.

Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. Steep Trails. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near fine early (first?) edition in near fine RARE dust jacket. Dark teal cloth covered boards with black pine tree illustrations and black lettering on front panel and spine. Front panel has a small 3/16" round discoloration that matches a similar mark on the front jacket panel. Spine is lightly sunned; several very small crimps and rubs along edge at head and tail of board spine. Glue residue stains on paste down. Upper external page edges are age-soiled; all external page edges have faint foxing. Twelve b&w full page photo illustrations. Text is clean and text block is solid. Dust jacket is lightly soiled overall, a bit more so along folds and upper extremities. Spine is sunned. Small chips/rubs along edges at head and tail of jacket spine and fore-edge corner tips. Inside flaps are not clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.

Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.

Steep Trails. John Muir. Houghton Mifflin, 1918.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine Copy in Light Pale Green Boards. First Edition 1918/1918. Excellent Well Preserved Copy.

Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.

Muir, John. Steep Trails: California Utah Nevada Washington Oregon The Grand Canon. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1918.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Octavo. [1], xi, 391 pages., [1]. Hand colored photogravure frontispiece. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Large paper edition. Green paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Gilt stamped title on a dark green leather spine label. A couple of tiny edge chips to the front cover. Light edge wear to the paper extremities. Untrimmed text edges. Small edge chip to title label on spine. Pages 11 and 12 have clear tape repairs. This copy is number 34 of 350 copies printed by the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.

John Muir. STEEP TRAILS CALIFORNIA, UTAH, NEVADA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, THE GRAND CANYON. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1918.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 6 x 9 in. Limited large paper edition of 380 copies, this is no. 16. Green cloth and paper boards with spine label. Color frontis and B&W photo plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; minor shelf wear, covers very clen but a bit rubbed and toned. Spine label excellent. Binding tight and text bright and unmarked. Contemporary engraved PO's bookplate on front pastedown. Nature. RGR.

Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.

John Muir | William Frederic Bade [Editor]. [CALIFORNIA] STEEP TRAILS: CALIFORNIA, UTAH, NEVADA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, THE GRAND CANON. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Large 8vo.; in the publisher's paper-covered boards backed in green buckram faded to tan, with morocco label at the spine; there is a light stain to the upper board; xi, 391 pages including the Index; [1]; with a colored photogravure frontispiece, with 16 additional plates; the large paper Limited Edition of 350 copies of which this is #214.~~A posthumous collection of papers in chronolgical order which "span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir's life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation" [Publisher's description]. By the man known as the Father of the National Parks~and Founder of the Sierra Club. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Limited Edition #214 of 350 large paper copies.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. STEEP TRAILS. California Utah Nevada Washington Oregon and the Grand Canyon.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 389 pages. Index. Illustrated. One of 385 copies on large paper, being number 90. Most illustrations are from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Binding shows spotting on back cover; back cover has a horizontal crease near the middle causing a slight bend to the back cover; spine faded. Internally, very good with some pages uncut. Very good. (066)

Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.

Muir, John. Steep Trails. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1918.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, early issue with the words "Published September 1918" printed on the copyright page with NO indication of later printings. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with slight wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.