John Muir Travels in Alaska Large Paper Edition
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Author: Muir, John
Title: Travels in Alaska - Large-paper edition
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1915
Description: ix, [4], 327, [1] pp. Illustrated with 16 plates from photographs mostly by Herbert W. Gleason; color photogravure frontispiece from a painting by Thomas Hill, with printed tissue-guard. (8vo) original green cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. No. 234 of 450 copies. First Edition, Large Paper Edition.Contains material edited from articles Muir had written on his Alaska trips in 1879 & 1880 for the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Muir began working on the text in earnest in 1912, but his efforts to save the Hetch-Hetchy valley interrupted his work and final touches to the manuscript had to be completed after his death in 1914, primarily through the efforts of Mrs. Marion Parsons. Lacks jacket. Kimes 334.
Author: Muir, John
Title: Travels in Alaska - Large-paper edition
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1915
Description: ix, [4], 327, [1] pp. Illustrated with 16 plates from photographs mostly by Herbert W. Gleason; color photogravure frontispiece from a painting by Thomas Hill, with printed tissue-guard. (8vo) original green cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. No. 234 of 450 copies. First Edition, Large Paper Edition.Contains material edited from articles Muir had written on his Alaska trips in 1879 & 1880 for the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Muir began working on the text in earnest in 1912, but his efforts to save the Hetch-Hetchy valley interrupted his work and final touches to the manuscript had to be completed after his death in 1914, primarily through the efforts of Mrs. Marion Parsons. Lacks jacket. Kimes 334.
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