WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR, MANUSCRIPT EDITION

MUIR, John. THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR: MANUSCRIPT EDITION, 10 VOLUMES. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924. No. 460 of 750 copies. 8vo., green buckram with brown gilt leather spine labels. Spines sunned, some paper adhesion to front board of Volume I, faint dampstains to edges of boards, Volume X (interior fine). Some edges unopened at rear of volumes. Sepia-tone frontispieces, monochrome plates and maps. A handsome set.

Volume I: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth/A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 428 pp., 1916. (Tipped in following the half title of Volume I is a clip from a Muir manuscript, describing the Yellow Pine - "a worthy companion" - and other mountainous-region trees.)
Volume II: My First Summer in the Sierra, 271 pp., 1916.
Volume III: Travels In Alaska, 399 pp., 1916.
Volume IV: The Mountains of California, Volume I, 301 pp. + map, 1916.
Volume V: The Mountains of California, Volume II, 309 pp., 1916.
Volume VI: Our National Parks, 400 pp., 1916.
Volume VII: (edited by William Frederic Badè) The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette, 304 pp., 1918.
Volume VIII: Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Canon, 391 pp., 1918.
Volume IX: The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume I (by William Frederic Badè), 399 pp., 1923.
Volume X: The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume II (by William Frederic Badè), 454 pp., 1924.
The set: $1,850.00 #79579