Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), gilt blue cloth. t.e.g. Frontis., [xi], 382, [blank], 1 pp., 11 b&w plates, map; early booksellers ticket affixed to lower right corner of front paste-down, early presentation inscription in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Good, lightly rubbed, two chips out of margin of one leaf (pages 227-28), number 164 stamped on ffep, brown stains from adhesive to portions of bookplate and offsetting from same to ffep. Early reprint of Muir's second book. Statement reading "Published October, 1909" on copyright page. BAL 14760. Contains Muir's only account of his interaction with Ralph Waldo Emerson to visit the "Mariposa big trees.

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Bookseller: James Arsenault & Company (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8730
Title: Our National Parks
Author: Muir, John
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge

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