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My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra

My First Summer in the Sierra

MUIR, John.

My First Summer in the Sierra.

FIRST TRADE PRINTING. San Francisco: A Yolla Bolly Press Book published by Sierra Club Books, 1988.

4to (large format). xii, 162 pp. Twelve wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Light gray paper-covered boards with a linen spine, in the original printed dust jacket. A fine copy.

The Sierra Club Books trade edition of Muir's classic, reproducing the Yolla Bolly Press limited edition of 1988, issued for the 150th anniversary of Muir's birth. First published in 1911 and drawn from the journals of his 1869 season driving a flock of sheep into the Yosemite high country, My First Summer in the Sierra is among the most loved of his books — the volume that drew generations of readers to the Sierra. This edition pairs the text with twelve wood engravings by Michael McCurdy and a foreword and note on the text by Frederick Turner.

SKU TO-2026-053 

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