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John Muir Travels in Alaska Large Paper Edition
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. First Edition, Large Paper Edition. No. 216 of 450 copies.

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. Kimes 334.

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Spine faded, label chipped, some wear to boards, bookplate on front free endpaper; good.
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