Title: The Yosemite Author: Muir, John Place: New York Publisher: Century Date: 1912 Description: x, 284. 32 full page plates from photographs; 3 folding maps. 8¼x5½, original gilt pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition. At Robert Underwood Johnson's urging, John Muir wrote this guide book to Yosemite, assembling and rewriting material from his previous published works in order to tell visitors all about the National Park. He even seized the opportunity to include a lengthy chapter on the Hetch Hetchy Valley, mustering support for the ongoing campaign to preserve that "Tuolomne Yosemite." BAL 14767; Kimes 308. Lot Amendments Condition: A little rubbing to covers, expert repairs to spine ends; title-page darkened from tissue guards, with frontispiece slightly so; very good or better. Item number: 197907
Title: The Yosemite Author: Muir, John Place: New York Publisher: Century Date: 1912 Description: x, 284. 32 full page plates from photographs; 3 folding maps. 8¼x5½, original gilt pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition. At Robert Underwood Johnson's urging, John Muir wrote this guide book to Yosemite, assembling and rewriting material from his previous published works in order to tell visitors all about the National Park. He even seized the opportunity to include a lengthy chapter on the Hetch Hetchy Valley, mustering support for the ongoing campaign to preserve that "Tuolomne Yosemite." BAL 14767; Kimes 308. Lot Amendments Condition: A little rubbing to covers, expert repairs to spine ends; title-page darkened from tissue guards, with frontispiece slightly so; very good or better. Item number: 197907
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