The Writings Of John Muir by Muir, John - 1924

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Manuscript Edition. Orig. green cloth, gilt lettered brown leather spine labels. Very good. 10 vols. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 385 of 750, mostly unopened. Edited by William Frederic Bade. Illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards, the first 8 volumes each with an additional hand-colored gravure frontispiece; folding map in Volume II. With holograph fragment in ink from "Summer Days at Mount Shasta," tipped in Vol. I........."a milkyway of wings & blossoms, girdling this colossal monument of geological forces as if the vivifying sunbeams beating against its rocky base had broken into a foam of flowers & bees." BAL14774. "Probably issued in a variety of bindings." President Theodore Roosevelt accompanied Muir on a visit to Yosemite. Muir expressed his concern about mismanagement of the valley and rampant exploitation of the valley's resources. He was able to convince Roosevelt that the best way to protect the valley was through federal control and management. Extensive Index Vol. 10. Spines faded, some chipping to leather spine labels.