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Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1918 on the title page, so asumed to be the First Printing of this 'Sierra Edition' volume of the Writings of John Muir. Bound in bright green cloth with a gilt design of a California poppy on the front cover. Leather spine label with gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. A clean and bright copy! No jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Steep Trails. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918.
Price: US$75.00 + 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. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, 1918.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. vi, 390. Frontis. scenic drawing with tissue guard. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions on coated paper. Edited by William Frederic Badé. With index. Gray cloth, titles and illustration stamped in white on the cover and spine, color illustration mounted to the cover, gilt tops. Damp stain to bottom edge running throughout (please see photos), covers spotted, 1956 gift inscription in ink on front flyleaf, Auren G. Muir bookstamp to front pastedown and second flyleaf, rear hinge starting. A chronological arrangement of writings on the West and Northwest first published between 1874 and 1902. Includes Muir's reflections of the Puget Sound country and its towns, along with a rich account of his 1888 ascent of his Mount Rainier, with Philemon Beecher Van Trump (1838 - 1916) guiding. (In 1870 Van Trump, with Hazard Stevens, was the first in recorded history to summit Rainier.) KIMES 351.Now protected with a removable clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.