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Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: Very good with the "A" and "W" of title slightly faded on front board but still readable. Gently rubbed edges and bumped spine ends.

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "November 1916" to copyright page with NAP; however appears to be an early but not first printing, as the jacket and cloth do not exactly match those of the true first. Plain green cloth with white letters; trace edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends. Jacket in archival plastic protector is lightly soiled, with several small closed tears and chips; $3.00 publisher's price to front flap; flaps and rear panel are otherwise blank. Foxing to text block. Binding sound, interior lightly toned and foxed. Gift inscription to ffep. Four plates as issued. Small bookshop label to rear pastedown. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages

Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$139.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original green cloth lettered in white, pictorial onlay, TEG. Spine a bit flattened, light wear to points, white letters mildly rubbed, some foxing. Bookplate. Tissued frontis. All plates present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxvii, 220 pages

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

MUIR,JOHN (BY BADE,WILLIAM FREDERIC). THOUSAND MILE WALK TO THE GULF (1,000). Houghton Mifflin Co Pub 1916 ,_ovember tp, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VERY GOOD CONDITION,clean, solid, bright. bit rubed to white titles spine & cover, but all very readable. Nice spine ends, points very nice cover color art. Frontis protected by glasene sheet. last page of index not cut (untrimed). ; White spine & cover titles to Green Cloth hard covers.cover shows beautiful palm tree land across narrow blue river. Book is about walk East of mississipi, and Cuba, but also m entions "BY ACROOKED ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA & TWENTY HILL HOLLOW. .GILT TOP EDGE TO TEXT BLOCK.; 220pg pages; 13 nice illustrations in book.KENTUCKY OAKS; MAMMOTH CAVE; CLINCH RIVER; SPANISH MOSS; SAVANNAH; ST. JOHN'S RIVER; PALMETTO; LIME KEY; MORRO CASTLE; MERCED COUNTY; .

Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.

John Muir; William Frederic Bade (ed.). A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Green cloth cover with color illustrated vignetted on the top board, lettering in white. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and soiling, no dj. Name of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

john muir. a thousand-mile walk to the gulf. houghton mifflin, 1916.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: dj: avg minus slight damp stain b of spine. book: above avg. green boards, handsome copy

Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine first edition.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf -- 1916 LARGE PAPER NUMBERED FIRST EDITION. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$365.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1916 LARGE PAPER NUMBERED FIRST EDITION. Original grayish green paper covered boards, rebacked with matching green cloth spine with new leather title patch lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. The book has some light rubbing to edges, light diffuse soiling covers, old gift inscription penned to corner of front pastedown and old bookseller ticket pasted to corner of rear pastedown otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, no foxing. The book measures 238nn tall x 168mm, and has 219 + [1] pages, 12 b/w plates, 1 map, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.

Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1916.

Price: US$389.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Published 1916, this copy number 463 of 550 of the Large Paper Edition. Illustrated with black and white plates from photographs plus a color frontis. Light green hardcover with darker green cloth spine, dark green spine label lettered in gilt, 220 pages. Some soil to the light green covers, otherwise very good condition with light rubbing to the spine ends and label, good hinges, firm text block, tiny bit of residue to front free endpaper from a 1926 gift card being taped there (card still present), very clean pages, no names or other markings. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.

Muir, John; Bade, William Frederic (Introduction). A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin / Norman S. Berg, USA, 1916.

Price: US$447.20 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Houghton Mifflin / Norman S. Berg 1916 Reprint Fine/Good DJ Full Title: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Muir, John; Bade, William Frederic (Introduction). Illustrated in Black and white. This version does NOT have any of John Muir's notes. xxvi+220 pages with index. Unread. Unopened. Heavy orange cloth with gilded lettering, black text block on spine with gilded lettering. Bright chipped dust jacket with mended tears, dust jacket protected in clear dust jacket cover. HEAVY ITEM 1.75 Pounds, Size: 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches.

Seller: Keeper of the Page, Enumclaw, WA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF . Edited by William Frederic Badé .. Houghton Mifflin company, Boston and New York, 1916.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp, [xxx], [222], 12 plates, 1 map, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, pictorial paper onlay affixed to front cover. First edition. Autobiographically, this volume bridges the period between Muir's THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH and MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA. A manuscript journal, a portion of a letter, and a published article provide an account of Muir's botanical excursion from Kentucky to Florida in 1867, trip to Cuba, voyage to San Francisco via Panama, and first year in California. Muir's journal ends with his arrival in California in April 1868. The autobiographical narratives are connected by excerpting his brief account of his first visit to Yosemite Valley from a letter to Mrs. Carr, and providing a description of Twenty Hill Hollow (first printed in the OVERLAND MONTHLY for July 1872) where Muir spent much of his first year in California. BAL 14773. Neat previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, scattered foxing to text block, a fine copy. (#148159)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

John Muir. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1916.

Price: US$470.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: November 1916, Houghton Mifflin, introduction by William Frederic Bade. Contains illustrations, Minor wear to spine, corners, small scratch on front plate (see photos).

Seller: Albert & Rosie's Books, WEBSTER, MA, U.S.A.

John Muir. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin, 1916.

Price: US$495.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine Copy.1/550 Large Paper Copies.Limited Edition. First Edition (1916/1916)Excellent Fresh Copy.

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

Muir, John. A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 220p octavo. A very good copy in a good price clipped dust jacket, lightly chipped at the spine heads of the jacket. Nice corners, and hinges.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

John Muir. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Nice condition copy of "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf" by John Muir - RARE with original, un-clipped dust jacket (with the original $2.50 price on the front flap and spine). 1916 1st edition, 1st printing with pictorial front cover and the year "1916" printed on the title page; Houghton Mifflin Company; New York and Boston. Illustrated with black & white photographs and a map showing the route of Muir's walk to the gulf. Gilt top page edges. Please see the photos for the complete list of contents. From the dust jacket: "John Muir's tramp from Indiana to Florida in 1867, and his trip thence to Cuba and finally to California, was Muir's first adventure into the world of his life work as a student of nature, and he described it in his journal with all the fresh enthusiasm of such an adventure at twenty-nine, and with good measure of the literary art that distinguishes his later writing. It was primarily a botanizing trip, but the journal is devoted mostly to the general aspects of the country and to experiences with more or less hospitable humans and woods that were always hospitable. The book will be warmly welcomed, because it is intensely interesting in itself as well as for the light it throws on the development of a great naturalist." Condition: Small stain at the bottom of the front cover; sharp corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Clean interior with only some light foxing on the copyright page, and a name/date (1916) written in pen and bookplate on the front pastedown. There are a couple small, light stains at the bottom edge of the text block. Overall the book is in very good condition. Soiling and staining to the dust jacket with tears along the perimeter (most notably at the top and bottom of the spine); the initials "aH"(?) are written twice on the rear flap; the jacket is un-clipped with the original $2.50 price on the front flap and spine.

Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. Houghton Mifflin, 1916.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, published November 1916 stated on copyright page, and with 1916 on title page. Book very good. Dust jacket very good, some small pieces missing, tears and wear. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$1400.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this work by Muir. Octavo, original green cloth, color pictorial cover label, lettered in white, top edge gilt. Edited with an introduction by William Frederic Badà . Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; map. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Uncommon in this condition. In 1867, John Muir, age twenty-eight, was blinded in an industrial accident. He lay in bed for two weeks wondering if he would ever see again. When his sight miraculously returned, Muir resolved to devote all his time to the great passion of his life -- studying plants. He quit his job in an Indiana manufacturing plant, said good-bye to his family, and set out alone to walk to the Gulf of Mexico, sketching tropical plants along the way. He kept a journal of this thousand-mile walk and near the end of his life, now famous as a conservation warrior and literary celebrity, sent a typescript of it to his publisher. The result is a wonderful portrait of a young man in search of himself and a particularly vivid portrait of the post-war American South. Here is the young Muir talking with freed slaves and former Confederate soldiers, pondering the uses of electricity, exploring Mammoth Cave, sleeping in a Savannah cemetery, delirious with malarial fever in the home of strangers at Cedar Key, traveling to Havana, Cuba, and sailing to San Francisco Bay. Once in California, Muir promptly set out for Yosemite Valley -- 200 miles away. There Muir found his destiny -- and a mountain range to test his apparently inexhaustible capacity for walking.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

John Muir. A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, LIMITED LARGE-PAPER ISSUE. One of 550 copies of the first edition printed on large paper, making the book about an inch taller than the trade first edition. BOUND IN A STRIKING DELUXE FULL LEATHER BINDING. Full green leather elaborately decorated in gilt. This is a doublure binding where the inside covers are also full leather with the same decoration. Free endpapers are silk, top edge gilt. The fine binding is not signed but is reminiscent of the work of American binderies in the early 20th century. The spine is slightly faded to a light brown. Five raised bands on spine. Interior fine. A handsome book in very good condition. A beautiful example of the large-paper issue of one of the naturalist's classic works.

Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.

MUIR, John. Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. , 1916.

Price: US$1650.00 + shipping

Description: MUIR, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. Edited by William Frederic Bade. Boston & N.Y.: Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1916. 1st ed. Illus. frontis. map. xxvii, 220pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth, dust jacket(slightly chipped at spines, else in fine, bright condition). "In 1867, while employed in a wagon factory in Indianapolis, he [Muir] suffered an accidental injury to one of his eyes. This occurrence decided[sic] him to 'bid adieu to mechanical inventions' and devote the rest of his life 'to the study of the inventions of God.' Under the urge of this determination he started off at once on foot from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico. He kept a journal in which he entered day by day his observations on the flora, the forests, physiography of the country, and experiences with the inhabitants. He also confided to it his personal reflections on man's attitude toward nature, the animal world, and the processes of life and death. The journal is important for an understanding of Muir at this state of his career. It was edited by the writer [Bade] after Muir's death."--DAB.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$1850.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this work by Muir. Octavo, original green cloth, color pictorial cover label, lettered in white, top edge gilt. Edited with an introduction by William Frederic Badà . Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; map. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition. In 1867, John Muir, age twenty-eight, was blinded in an industrial accident. He lay in bed for two weeks wondering if he would ever see again. When his sight miraculously returned, Muir resolved to devote all his time to the great passion of his life -- studying plants. He quit his job in an Indiana manufacturing plant, said good-bye to his family, and set out alone to walk to the Gulf of Mexico, sketching tropical plants along the way. He kept a journal of this thousand-mile walk and near the end of his life, now famous as a conservation warrior and literary celebrity, sent a typescript of it to his publisher. The result is a wonderful portrait of a young man in search of himself and a particularly vivid portrait of the post-war American South. Here is the young Muir talking with freed slaves and former Confederate soldiers, pondering the uses of electricity, exploring Mammoth Cave, sleeping in a Savannah cemetery, delirious with malarial fever in the home of strangers at Cedar Key, traveling to Havana, Cuba, and sailing to San Francisco Bay. Once in California, Muir promptly set out for Yosemite Valley -- 200 miles away. There Muir found his destiny -- and a mountain range to test his apparently inexhaustible capacity for walking.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Muir, John & William Frederic Bade (for last two volumes Life And Letters). The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition. --- complete set WITH partial leaf of John Muir's handwriting taken from the manuscripts of his books -- The Story Of My Boyhood And Youth, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin, Steep Trails, The Life and Letters of John Muir. Houghton Mifflin Company 1916-1924, Boston, 1916.

Price: US$4250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a first edition complete 10 volume set of THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR by John Muir, edited by William Frederic Bade with additional biographical material in volumes 9 and 10 by Bade. Edition of 750 sets, this set being number 200 with that number being handwritten in each volume on the limitation page. The sets were published over a number of years starting in 1916 and concluding in 1924. Each volume measures 231mm tall x 155mm and has a b/w frontispiece with tissue guard. The set requires approximately 410mm (16.25 inches) of shelf space when the volumes are positioned upright. The following is copied from Kimes' bibliography of John Muir's books: v. 1. Nine photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front.; 8 halftone plates of author's sketches and map tipped in. v. 2. Eight photogravures with printed tissues, inc. front.; 16 halftone plates of author's sketches and map tipped in. v. 3. Eight photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and map tipped in. v. 4. Eight photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and map tipped in. v. 5. Six photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and map tipped in. v. 6. Seven photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and map tipped in. v. 7. Five photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front.; 10 halftone plates of author's sketches and map tipped in. v. 8. Six photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and map tipped in. v. 9. Seven photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and 1 plate of author's drawing tipped in. v. 10. Five photogravures with printed tissues, incl. front., and 1 plate of author's drawing tipped in. Price: $6.00 per v. In correspondence with the Houghton Mifflin Company, we learned that The Writings was a publication of the Private Library Department and that no records were available. The set was sold by subscription only. According to the publisher's announcement of the manuscript edition, the first six volumes were to be published in the fall of 1916, and the remaining four volumes would be published as soon as "the work of compilation and editing" could be accomplished. Since A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, included in volume one, was not published until November, 1916, the six volumes could have been available in December, but it may not have been until early in 1917. Volumes seven and eight were published in 1918; volume nine did not appear until late in 1923, and volume ten in 1924. Correspondence indicates that the war was a deterring factor in the company's publication schedule. Customers were inquiring for the last two volumes as early as 1919 and 1920. A hand-written note (Dr. Bade) on a publisher's announcement indicates that the manuscript edition, issued in a variety of formats, was completely sold. CONDITION: Each volume is bound in original green buckram, with leather title patch on spine lettered in gilt, with front and bottom edges of text block uncut, and with each volume hand-numbered (all volumes have the same number which indicates that this is not a mixed set). The spines have faded to tan (usual for this binding) and the leather title patches have some usual wear with loss to the patches of volume 1, volume 2, and volume 3. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid bindings, complete.PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.

Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.