Title: The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition. Author: Muir, John Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date: 1916-1924 Description: 10 vols. Various paginations. Illustreated with numerous photogravure & halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards. 9x6, original pale green buckram with gilt leather lettering pieces, page edges untrimmed. No. 723 of 750 copies of the Manuscript Edition. With a manuscript leaf by Muir mounted to a prelim. flyleaf of Vol. 1, describing, apparently, the cone from a Sierra-Nevada tree. The holograph text is written in two colors of ink with additional pencil emendations. The edited text reads: " . . . than before; their diameter being nearly doubled by the spreading of the scales, + their color changes to rich yellow brown. They remain on the tree all the following winter + summer until the ripening of a fresh crop, then they fall but continue to beautify the ground for many years after the fall . . . " Kimes 342. Lot Amendments Condition: An unopened, unread set in the publisher's original buckram. Spines sunned and with a couple minor stains to covers, top edges dust-soiled, spine labels dry and slightly faded, two with narrow chips to edges. Still a handsome set and internally fine. Item number: 169513
Title: The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition. Author: Muir, John Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date: 1916-1924 Description: 10 vols. Various paginations. Illustreated with numerous photogravure & halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards. 9x6, original pale green buckram with gilt leather lettering pieces, page edges untrimmed. No. 723 of 750 copies of the Manuscript Edition. With a manuscript leaf by Muir mounted to a prelim. flyleaf of Vol. 1, describing, apparently, the cone from a Sierra-Nevada tree. The holograph text is written in two colors of ink with additional pencil emendations. The edited text reads: " . . . than before; their diameter being nearly doubled by the spreading of the scales, + their color changes to rich yellow brown. They remain on the tree all the following winter + summer until the ripening of a fresh crop, then they fall but continue to beautify the ground for many years after the fall . . . " Kimes 342. Lot Amendments Condition: An unopened, unread set in the publisher's original buckram. Spines sunned and with a couple minor stains to covers, top edges dust-soiled, spine labels dry and slightly faded, two with narrow chips to edges. Still a handsome set and internally fine. Item number: 169513
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