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MUIR, John.

My First Summer in the Sierra.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1911.

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“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us": First Edition of John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra
First edition, early printing of this seminal work of American nature writing, documenting the author's experiences through California’s Sierra Nevada in 1869. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial front panel stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated from drawings made by the author in 1869 and from gravure plates photographs by Herbert W. Gleason with printed tissue guards. In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper. A very nice example.
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