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[CALIFORNIA] STEEP TRAILS: CALIFORNIA, UTAH, NEVADA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, THE GRAND CANON
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
Octavo. Hard Cover. Limited Edition #214 of 350 large paper copies. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s paper-covered boards backed in green buckram faded to tan, with morocco label at the spine; there is a light stain to the upper board; xi, 391 pages including the Index; [1]; with a colored photogravure frontispiece, with 16 additional plates; the large paper Limited Edition of 350 copies of which this is #214.~~A posthumous collection of papers in chronolgical order which “span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir’s life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation” [Publisher’s description]. By the man known as the Father of the National Parks~and Founder of the Sierra Club.
Very Good binding / no dust jacket.
Item #293162
Price: $350.00