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RCSTEEP TRAILS (VINT3634). by John Muir, edited by Williamr Frederic Bade.
1918 first edition of Muir's adventures and explorations of western scenes, with introduction by William Frederic Bade dated May 1918, with the copyright dated September of that year. Muir died at the end of 1914 so this is a posthumus edition yet the writing is largely taken from contributions he made to books and magazines from the late 1800s. Ttopics range among Mount Shasta (including the essay recounting Muir's survival in a snowstorm by getting warmth at a hot spring), Salt Lake City (and bathing in the Great Salt Lake), southern California, Nevada's farms, forests, timber, and glacial history plus ghost towns even then, Washington State, Oregon, and the Grand Canyon. Muir includes one harrowing winter sojourn into Yosemite's Tenaya Canyon but overall Steep Trails indicates how much roaming Muir did beyond his Yosemite.There are 24 separate excursions and accounts, 12 black-and-white photos are included, 9 by Herbert W. Gleason. 391 pages +xii, index.Size is 5.5 in. x8.5 in.
The book's cover is a pale grayish and does not have a color photo. No dust jacket. Viewed from above the book's top, this copy's pages do not have giilt top edges. There is some minor bumping. There is a gift inscription on the first page facing the inside cover and an owner's signature; no other marks. Binding is tight; all pages and illustrations are present. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston and New York. Printed on last page is "The Riverside Press, Cambridge-Massachusetts, U. S. A. Using eBay's standard for book conditon, this copy of Steep Trails ranks as Good to Very Good.
ISBN: None. /Order #: VINT3634 cloth$155.00. RC See a similar copy: STEEP TRAILS (VINT3628).
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