The Yosemite
by Muir, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/N/A
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Century Co., 1912. Book. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First printing custom-bound in dark blue 3/4 morocco, dark blue ribbed cloth, ruled in gilt, spine panel with 5 raised bands lettered/decorated in gilt, top text block edge in gilt, swirl-marbled endpapers. 1st ptg.: Apr. 1912 (matching dates, no additional ptgs. indicated). Leather rubbed along joints and at corners, with slight exposure to several, with a few surface rubs to covers. x,284 pp. Minimally ex-library with circulation pocket mounted inside back cover and "17201" stamped on copyright pg. beneath publication date, no other marks or stamps. Text block edges typically a bit tanned, with mild foxing generally limited to the pages adjacent to certain plates rather than to the plates themselves. All maps (facing pp. 12, 212, 220) present and fully intact, without tears or creases..
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Details
- Seller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- MK022
- Title
- The Yosemite
- Author
- Muir, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- American West/Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....