A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
- SIGNED Hardcover
- Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First printing, one of 550 copies of the "Large-Paper Edition", octavo size, 248 pp., with TLS by Muir. This volume has a short typed note, signed by John Muir, tipped onto the verso of the half-title page. The note is dated June 10, 1912, and is addressed to a Mr. Elliot who had apparently written to Muir requesting an inscribed copy of a different title. The note is full of warmth and shows Muir's love of nature; it reads in part "[I am] anxious to be able some time to meet you face to face and exchange our views of wild nature so gloriously displayed in our great West."
John Muir (1838-1914) remains perhaps the most well-known and beloved writer for his work on environmental issues, and wrote extensively on the west, including Yosemite and the Sierras. He helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas, as well as being co-founder of the Sierra Club.
This limited, large-paper edition was published a month prior (October, 1916) to the first trade edition (November, 1916). In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in this book. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find" (n.b., from Wiki). The book is comprised of the journal that he kept on his walk, through his arrival in San Francisco, where the journal ends; an excerpt from a letter written by him to Mrs. Jeanne Carr that relates his first excursion in California to Yosemite; and "Twenty Hill Hollow", which chronicles his enthusiastic appreciation for the low hills that border the plains of the great Central Valley. Muir's early writing included in this volume is important in disclosing his nature-oriented philosophy of life and the direction in which it was taking him (from Kimes).
___DESCRIPTION: Celadon green laid paper board covers, dark green buckram shelfback, dark green leather label with gilt-stamped lettering, top edge rough-cut, other edges uncut, plain endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece a colored photogravure of "A Florida Sunset, From a water-color by Amelia M. Watson", publisher's device in green on the title page, limitation statement on the copyright page, this copy being number 31 of 550; pagination: [i]-xxviii, 1-220, includes an Index at the rear, 17 plates including a map tipped in. The note from Muir measures approximately 10" by 8", is tipped onto the verso of the half-title page,and consists of seven lines of text, not including his closing lines, his signature in blue ink.
___CONDITION: About very good overall, structually sound with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, and no cracked gutters; the interior near fine, clean and bright, free of prior owner markings, and collated complete, with some offsetting to pp. 194 and 195; the binding a bit better than good, the green paper with some light soil and a few marks, the shelfback well worn and with some soil, the spine label also worn but with no loss of lettering, the paper covering the corners beginning to split. The Muir note with some wear including creasing and one long closed tear to the bottom margin, not affecting the signature nor the text. Very good overall, a near fine interior in a good plus binding, this copy special with the signed note by Muir tipped in.
___CITATIONS: Kimes & Kimes no. 339, BAL 14773.
___PROVENANCE: This volume, with the Muir signed note, came to us from a woman who was a close friend of with Mimi Kimes (of Kimes and Kimes).
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note the following: (i) additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs, please inquire for details; and (ii) any taxes, duty, or tariffs charged by your country will, of necessity, be your responsibility.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
John Muir (1838-1914) remains perhaps the most well-known and beloved writer for his work on environmental issues, and wrote extensively on the west, including Yosemite and the Sierras. He helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas, as well as being co-founder of the Sierra Club.
This limited, large-paper edition was published a month prior (October, 1916) to the first trade edition (November, 1916). In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in this book. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find" (n.b., from Wiki). The book is comprised of the journal that he kept on his walk, through his arrival in San Francisco, where the journal ends; an excerpt from a letter written by him to Mrs. Jeanne Carr that relates his first excursion in California to Yosemite; and "Twenty Hill Hollow", which chronicles his enthusiastic appreciation for the low hills that border the plains of the great Central Valley. Muir's early writing included in this volume is important in disclosing his nature-oriented philosophy of life and the direction in which it was taking him (from Kimes).
___DESCRIPTION: Celadon green laid paper board covers, dark green buckram shelfback, dark green leather label with gilt-stamped lettering, top edge rough-cut, other edges uncut, plain endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece a colored photogravure of "A Florida Sunset, From a water-color by Amelia M. Watson", publisher's device in green on the title page, limitation statement on the copyright page, this copy being number 31 of 550; pagination: [i]-xxviii, 1-220, includes an Index at the rear, 17 plates including a map tipped in. The note from Muir measures approximately 10" by 8", is tipped onto the verso of the half-title page,and consists of seven lines of text, not including his closing lines, his signature in blue ink.
___CONDITION: About very good overall, structually sound with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, and no cracked gutters; the interior near fine, clean and bright, free of prior owner markings, and collated complete, with some offsetting to pp. 194 and 195; the binding a bit better than good, the green paper with some light soil and a few marks, the shelfback well worn and with some soil, the spine label also worn but with no loss of lettering, the paper covering the corners beginning to split. The Muir note with some wear including creasing and one long closed tear to the bottom margin, not affecting the signature nor the text. Very good overall, a near fine interior in a good plus binding, this copy special with the signed note by Muir tipped in.
___CITATIONS: Kimes & Kimes no. 339, BAL 14773.
___PROVENANCE: This volume, with the Muir signed note, came to us from a woman who was a close friend of with Mimi Kimes (of Kimes and Kimes).
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note the following: (i) additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs, please inquire for details; and (ii) any taxes, duty, or tariffs charged by your country will, of necessity, be your responsibility.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.