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Steep Trails
by MUIR, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Allan Brooks, Herbert W. Gleason (photographs on which illustrations are based). 8vo. Pp. vi, 390. Frontis. scenic drawing with tissue guard. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions on coated paper. Edited by William Frederic Badé. With index. Gray cloth, titles and illustration stamped in white on the cover and spine, color illustration mounted to the cover, gilt tops. Damp stain to bottom edge running throughout (please see photos), covers spotted, 1956 gift inscription in ink on front flyleaf, Auren G. Muir bookstamp to front pastedown and second flyleaf, rear hinge starting. A chronological arrangement of writings on the West and Northwest first published between 1874 and 1902. Includes Muir's reflections of the Puget Sound country and its towns, along with a rich account of his 1888 ascent of his Mount Rainier, with Philemon Beecher Van Trump (1838 - 1916) guiding. (In 1870 Van Trump, with Hazard Stevens, was the first in recorded history to summit Rainier.) KIMES 351.
Now protected with a removable clear archival sleeve.
Synopsis
Moral improvers have calls to preach. I have a friend who has a call to plough, and woe to the daisy sod or azalea thicket that falls under the savage redemption of his keen steel shares. Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestrial bog, rock, and moorland, he would fain discover some method of reclamation applicable to the ocean and the sky, that in due calendar time they might be brought to bud and blossom as the rose.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7544
- Title
- Steep Trails
- Author
- MUIR, John
- Illustrator
- Allan Brooks, Herbert W. Gleason (photographs on which illustrations are based)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1918
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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