[BINDINGS]. MUIR, John (1838-1914). The Writings of John Muir. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924.

10 volumes, 8vo. Numerous photogravure and halftone plates. 20th century half maroon morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut.

LIMITED EDITION, number 589 of 750 copies of the “Manuscript Edition." The collected works of Muir, who was a wilderness preservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club.

[Bound in to Volume I:] MUIR, John. Autograph manuscript, a page from the manuscript of The Mountains of California (1894). 1 page, 4to, (165 x 198 mm), in ink on paper with a few pencil corrections comprising 11 lines. Describes, in part, Muir's experience climbing Mt. Langley in 1871 (published in part as last paragraph on pp. 76 in Vol. IV): "...you see stretching from the spurs of Ritter a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires in the foreground rising to a height of about a thousand feet from a series of short glaciers that lean back against their bases."
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