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John Muir. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1915 date on title & copyright page. Published November 1915, stated. No indication of later printings. Pale green cloth with pictorial paste down and white titles. Boards with some soiling, some spots of lighter discoloration along rear board and lower spine. Pictorial paste down toned, though whole with just a touch of rubbing at upper corner. Spine a bit age darkened, ends bumped and edges gently rubbed. Titles remain legible. Binding sound; no cracks or breaks. Text block toned. Tiny bookseller sticker at lower gutter on rear paste down, else unmarked. A few light smudges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Muir, John. TRAVELS IN ALASKA. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1915.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Photos, 8.5 x 5.5", cloth with color illus. image affixed to front cover, 327pp with index + pp, covers rubbed, toned and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, front inner hinge cracked, pp toned, former owner's bookplate on half-title page; a usable but not a great copy of the FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
MUIR, John. TRAVELS IN ALASKA. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA, 1915.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Light grey cloth binding with white print on spine and front cover.Colored picture pasted on fron tcover. Gold headedge tint. Spine headstrip sreinforced.Ex l brary with white number on spine; bookplate on front paste-down ;embossed library name on title page and small ink number at top of Introduction page. Book has been wetted About a third of the pages show light water stains and moisture distortion. Spine shows light rubwear with color loss on both front and rear edges. Book is very sound and otherwise unmarked. 327 pages including index.
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published November 1915. Spots on spine, handling to book. Break in spine, half-title page. Expedited or International shipping may cost more.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York, 1915.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated with beautiful b&w photographic plates. Color illustration on front cover. -- A bit of rubbing, light discoloration and soiling on covers. Interior clean and tight with very little tanning. Overall Good Plus condition. 327 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First "Large-Paper" edition, hardcover, limited no. 59/450, is missing title plate for spine, has light bumps with very slight fraying to spine ends, light sunning to spine, faint stain to upper corner of some pages in text block, light rubbing with some areas of soiling to boards, and some slight shelfwear to edges and corners, otherwise a solid Good+ copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Muir, John. TRAVELS IN ALASKA. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$119.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: November, 1915. 329pp. Glossary. Photo plates. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Gilt top. Clean & unmarked vg+. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels In Alaska -- 1915 FIRST EDITION. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1915 FIRST PRINTING of the first edition with 1915 on title page and copyright page. Original grayish green cloth with color decoration front cover, white lettering front and spine, TEG. The book has some rubbing to corners, partial fading to spine lettering, some puckering to spine cloth (common for this book), old owner name penned to corner of rear pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The book measures 211mm tall x 140mm, and has 329 pages, 12 b/w plates, glossary of Chinook Jargon, index. Muir traveled to Alaska 5 times before the turn of the century. This is his account of 3 trips (1879, 1880, 1890) and discoveries: Wrangell Island, Stickeen Glaciers, Glacier Bay, Sum Dum Bay, sledging Muir Glacier, auroras. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
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.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin, Boston/New York, 1915.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with color halftone frontispiece with printed tissue guard and eleven additional photographic full-page plates of various Alaska images. Each of the three sections covers a different trip by the author (1879, 1880, and 1890). Overall, a handsome copy of a book rather challenging to find in good condition. Light shelf/edge wear, light even soiling to boards, slight rippling to spine cloth, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green cloth spine, color paper pictorial onlay at front board, white ink lettering, frontispiece. 8v. 327pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. Glossary.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm. 8vo (8.25" x 6"), original light green cloth, color half-tone image inset on front cover. t.e.g., Frontis., [2] [i-xii], [1-2], 3-326, [4] pp., numerous b&w plates. Early bookplate at front paste-down. CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, bumped corners, 1.5" damp-stain along side bottom of hinges, clean interior, sound binding. First edition.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: In protective mylar Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Spine and edges are slightly yellowed
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [x], 327 pp. (uncut) Frontispiece. Illustrations. Pictorial cloth binding, mounted label, no jacket, ownership signature, very good copy. (93882g). Preface by William Frederic Badè.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels In Alaska. Boston & N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin, 1915.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xl, 327 pgs. Index; Glossary; 1st. ed., 9th impression. Illustrated with colored halftone Frontis with protective tissue and eleven additional photographic full-page plates of Alaska scenes. Part I, 13 Chaps. are based on Muir's trip of 1879; Part II comprises three Chapters, based on Muir's trip of 1880, and the final section of three Chapters are based on Muir's trip of 1890. Tan cloth boards with 4 3/4" x 3 1/4", color paste-down on front cover; average shelf wear for its age; covers and spine cond. are good to very good; interior cond. is very good plus. Size: 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"
Seller: Boxer Books, Newberg, OR, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in very good dust jacket. This later edition has November 1915 on the copyright page but not on the title page. Tan cloth covered boards with b&w photo and brown lettering on front board; brown lettering and graphics on spine. With 12 b&w photo illustrations. Light soil on boards and spine. Horizontal crease at tail of board spine. Foxing on external pages edges. Age-toning to internal text pages, else book is internally clean. Text block is snug. Dust jacket is soiled overall. Spine, fore-edge folds and upper edges are sunned; folds are also scuffed but not rubbed through. All upper edges are fragile in general: Upper left corner of back panel has approx. loss of 1 1/4" by 7/8" with adjacent closed tears and creases (somewhat stabilized by older tape repair); also closed vertical tear of 7/8" on upper edge of back panel to the left of center. Additional losses on edges and corners at head and tail of jacket spine, with part of the title missing. Loss from rubs at fore-edge corners. Inside flap corners are not clipped, price is not displayed. 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.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1915, 1915.
Price: US$300.71 + shipping
Description: Royal octavo. The large paper edition, limited to 450 printings with 400 printed to sell, of which this is copy #207. Green cloth backed paper covered boards with a gilt stamped leather title label mounted to the spine. Edges not trimmed. Illustrated with black and white plates taken from photographs done by Herbert W. Gleason, the author and Asahel Curtis, as well as a hand-coloured photogravure frontispiece. Some light rubbing to the boards. Previous owner's gift inscription to the front fly-leaf. A tight and clean copy in very good condition. This scarce, limited edition book illustrates the author's journey through Alaska beginning in 1879. This being copy 207
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. Unopened textblock. Illustrated with 16 plates from photographs (most by Herbert W. Gleason). Color photogravure frontispiece from a painting by Thomas Hill. Each of the three sections covers a different trip by the author (1879, 1880, and 1890). [Kimes 334.] Noted flaws notwithstanding, a rather handsome copy of a book increasingly difficult to find in good shape. Light shelf/edge wear, light even soiling, three tips gently bumped, toning at spine, light wear to spine label, light sporadic tide mark at foredge focused at ffep and preliminaries, light even toning at textblock edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, green cloth spine, green paper boards, leather spine label, gilt lettering, color frontispiece. 8v. xl, 327pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Index. Glossary. Numbered limited edition, this being 403 of 450 copies.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
MUIR, JOHN. TRAVELS IN ALASKA. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, USA, 1915.
Price: US$355.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: USA : HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1915. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NO JACKET. USA : HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1915. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NO JACKET. USA : HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1915. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NO JACKET. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. 1915 NOV, BOSTON & NEW YORK, 1915. HARD BACK green. Book Condition: NEAR FINE no jacket. FIRST EDITION. plastic covering the cover, pages slightly yellowed with age. Original light green cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. 12 illustrations/photographs, including frontispiece. CONTENTS: Part I. The Trip of 1879: I. Puget Sound and British Columbia; II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska; III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers; IV. The Stickeen River; V. A Cruise in the Cassiar; VI. The Cassiar Trail; VII. Glenora Peak; VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers; IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward; X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay; XI. The Country of the Chilcats; XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell; XIII. Alaska Indians; Part II. The Trip of 1880: XIV. Sum Dum Bay; XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay; XVI. Glacier Bay; Part III. The Trip of 1890: XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay; XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier; XIX. Auroras; Index; Glossary of Words in the Chinook Language. DATE PUBLISHED: 1915 NOV EDITION: FIRST ED 326. SCARCE and very desirable, unmarked throughout, mylar cover, very minimal shelf wear, not ex-library.
Seller: MySEAbooks, Harlingen, TX, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin, 1915.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large-paper edition. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies. Darkening to cloth and label on spine. Light soiling to paper over boards.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, 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.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Houghton Mifflin and Co, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$988.00 + shipping
Description: Book has slightly bumped corners, minor wear thus nearly very good plus. All plates are present. Dj is poor.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO., BOSTON & NY, 1915.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: # 246 of 450 copies of this large paper edition, color frontispeice, as well as 16 black & white photos throughout. Book has general wear, spine pastedown is missing, front hinge cracked, front endpaper detached but present with two previous owners names and dates written in pen, slightly age toned pages, soiled covers, rubbed extremities. DATE PUBLISHED: 1915 EDITION: 327
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, 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.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel. Travels in Alaska, by John Muir, reflects Muir's exuberance for life and almost everything he encountered in his many travels. In addition to being an ecologist and traveler, John Muir was a botanist and geologist, a fact which readers will be reminded of through his contemplations of the southeast Africa flora and the activity of glaciers. Travels in Alaska is John Muir's journal of his 1879, 1880, and 1890 trips to southeast Alaska's glaciers, rivers, and temperate rain forests. For Muir, the wilderness was a medicine or spiritual tonic. Physical impediments and frailties faded into the background when he was alone in the wilderness. Much of "Travels in Alaska" is given to glaciers, including their descriptions, their influence on the landscape, their geological record, the discovery of new glaciers, and other characteristics of these moving rivers of ice. When describing glaciers, John Muir offers descriptive powers unequaled among authors on nature, Time and space almost have no medium in this publication, utterly lost when gazing upon a glacier.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
MUIR, John. Travels in Alaska. , 1915.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: MUIR, John. Travels in Alaska. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. 1st ed. xi,327pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. cloth, pictorial pastedown on front board, T.e.g., non-priceclipped d/j. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, very light rubbing to spine ends and corners, jacket chipped at spine ends, else very good or better. BAL 14771. Muir's final book published during his lifetime.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO, NY & BOSTON, 1915.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 1915 NOV COLOR PICTORIAL COVER. Dj torn, soiled, tanned, creased, closed tears, and tanned. General shelf wear, small bookplate on inner board, foxing on title page. Original light green cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. 12 illustrations/photographs, including frontispiece. CONTENTS: Part I. The Trip of 1879: I. Puget Sound and British Columbia; II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska; III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers; IV. The Stickeen River; V. A Cruise in the Cassiar; VI. The Cassiar Trail; VII. Glenora Peak; VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers; IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward; X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay; XI. The Country of the Chilcats; XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell; XIII. Alaska Indians; Part II. The Trip of 1880: XIV. Sum Dum Bay; XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay; XVI. Glacier Bay; Part III. The Trip of 1890: XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay; XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier; XIX. Auroras; Index; Glossary of Words in the Chinook Language. DATE PUBLISHED: 1915 EDITION: FIRST ED 327
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1915.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few small chips. The nicest example we have seen of the rare dust jacket. Travels in Alaska, by John Muir, reflects Muir's exuberance for life and almost everything he encountered in his many travels. In addition to being an ecologist and traveler, John Muir was a botanist and geologist, a fact which readers will be reminded of through his contemplations of the southeast Africa flora and the activity of glaciers. Travels in Alaska is John Muir's journal of his 1879, 1880, and 1890 trips to southeast Alaska's glaciers, rivers, and temperate rain forests. For Muir, the wilderness was a medicine or spiritual tonic. Physical impediments and frailties faded into the background when he was alone in the wilderness. Much of "Travels in Alaska" is given to glaciers, including their descriptions, their influence on the landscape, their geological record, the discovery of new glaciers, and other characteristics of these moving rivers of ice. When describing glaciers, John Muir offers descriptive powers unequaled among authors on nature, Time and space almost have no medium in this publication, utterly lost when gazing upon a glacier.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
MUIR, John. Travels in Alaska. , 1915.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: MUIR, John. Travels in Alaska. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. 1st ed. xi,327pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. cloth, pictorial pastedown on front board, T.e.g., non-priceclipped d/j. A very fine copy in dust jacket, housed in custom cloth slipcase. BAL 14771. Muir's final book published during his lifetime.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.