The Writings of John Muir : Sierra edition [10 VOLUMES, COMPLETE]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917-1924. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 10 volumes. Each volume with its own index. Uniformly bound in original green cloth with gilt lettered spines and a gilt floral device on front covers. Top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with a photographic frontispiece with a printed tissue guard. A few volumes have very minor spotting to covers and a hint of rubbing at extremities of spines and tips, but overall a bright, collectible set in very good + or better condition.
John Muir (1838-1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America. A friend and confidante of President Theodore Roosevelt, Muir is credited with the creation of the National Park System and was the founder of the Sierra Club.
The slightly earlier, limited, "Manuscript Edition" was published in 1916.
Contents: 1 : The story of my boyhood and youth -- -- 1917. 2 : My first summer in the Sierra (with folding map of Yosemite National Park) -- -- 1917. 3 : Travels in Alaska -- -- 1917. 4-5 : The mountains of California -- -- 1917. 6 : Our national parks -- -- 1917. 7 : The cruise of the Corwin -- -- 1918. 8 : Steep trails : California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon -- -- 1918. 9-10 : The life and letters of John Muir / by William Frederic Bade -- -- 1923. very good + to near fine. Item #51022
Price: $950.00