$2,500
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916-1924. 10 vols. 8vo, bound at the Riverside Press in green crushed morocco with gilt wildflower medallion to upper boards surrounded by a triple fillet border, spines in six compartments with gilt wildflower designs to four, gilt-decorated green and brown crushed morocco doublures, silk endpapers. Manuscript edition, limited to 750 copies, this being number 552 with original portion of the manuscript of "The Mountains of California" (1892) tipped in to front of volume one. With folding map and numerous photogravure plates throughout. Spines uniformly darkened; minor dampstaining affecting lower right corners of most leaves; otherwise very fine.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07