STEEP TRAILS. by John Muir. 1918 1st edition Good/Very Good--CA/NV/UT/OR/AK/AZ.

Description: This listing is for 1 copy of STEEP TRAILS (VINT3628). by John Muir, edited by William 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 posthumous edition yet the writing is largely taken from contributions he made to books and magazines from the late 1800s. Topics 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. x 8.5 in. The book's cover is a pale greenish-gray with title and author but no photo. No dust jacket. Viewed from above the book's top, pages do not have gilt edges. There is some minor bumping. There is a gift inscription and an owner's signature with 1968 date on the first page facing the inside cover.; 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 condition, this copy of Steep Trails ranks as Good/Very Good. This copy has been in a private collection for some 50 years. ISBN: None. Seller's #: VINT3634 cloth. Ships via U.S. media mail to U.S. addresses only. If order is needed before stated handling time, email via eBay with your needs before ordering as we can usually comply--we will email our response; we just don't want to suggest more than what we might be able to do in case we're in a crunch or on a trip. Thanks for looking,--vistabooksman

Price: 165 USD

Location: Silverthorne, Colorado

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