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My First Summer in the Sierra
by Muir, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. A presumed second printing, but with a scarce original jacket. "June 1911" is stated on the copyright page, but there is no date on title page, and the list of other Muir titles in the front matter includes The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, first published in 1913. Elegant inscription on the front free endpaper reads "Bertha C. Chase, from Charles and Virgie, Christmas 1918." Laid in is a card that reads "Compliments of Dr. & me, Mrs. Charles Libby Keene, Many many happy returns of the day."
Original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt and gray-green, lettered in gilt, top edge also gilt. Plates from photos by Herbert W. Gleason and illustrated with Muir's sketches from 1869. Very good or better with only light rubbing to corners and lower board edges, and a subtle, sporadic foxing to outer text block face. Interior clean and crisp. The scarce jacket is only fair: cracked through along front spine fold, so that it's in two seamless pieces; spine mottled with droplet stains to the point that it looks intentionally marbled. Chips at both ends of spine, tears at lower corners. Nonetheless scarce, with no other jackets on the market as of this writing. Both panels present well and are largely clean--all and all handsome. Price on jacket spine is "$2.50 net"; other titles advertised on back include books by Muir, Enos Mills, Dallas Lore Sharp, and John Burroughs.
Muir wrote this book from notes at age 72, but he breathed a truly youthful exuberance into this essayistic memoir of his first taste of the Sierras, a classic of American environmental writing and arguably his best book
.
Original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt and gray-green, lettered in gilt, top edge also gilt. Plates from photos by Herbert W. Gleason and illustrated with Muir's sketches from 1869. Very good or better with only light rubbing to corners and lower board edges, and a subtle, sporadic foxing to outer text block face. Interior clean and crisp. The scarce jacket is only fair: cracked through along front spine fold, so that it's in two seamless pieces; spine mottled with droplet stains to the point that it looks intentionally marbled. Chips at both ends of spine, tears at lower corners. Nonetheless scarce, with no other jackets on the market as of this writing. Both panels present well and are largely clean--all and all handsome. Price on jacket spine is "$2.50 net"; other titles advertised on back include books by Muir, Enos Mills, Dallas Lore Sharp, and John Burroughs.
Muir wrote this book from notes at age 72, but he breathed a truly youthful exuberance into this essayistic memoir of his first taste of the Sierras, a classic of American environmental writing and arguably his best book
.
Synopsis
John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Scotland. In 1849 he emigrated with his family to the United States, where he later enrolled in courses in chemistry, geology, and botany at the University of Wisconsin. Muir made extended journeys throughout America, observing both scientifically and enthusiastically the beauties of the wilderness. The Mountains of California , his first book, was published in 1894. He eventually settled in California, where he became an impassioned leader of the forest conservation movement. His writings include Our National Parks (1901), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Yosemite (1912), Travels in Alaska (1915), A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), and Steep Trails (1918).
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1091
- Title
- My First Summer in the Sierra
- Author
- Muir, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1911
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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