STICKEEN. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. 19x11.5 cm (small octavo), pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-73 [74] [75: blank] [76: printer's imprint] [77-78: blank], publisher's tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing. "In his recital of any adventure, Mr. Muir always gives much more than the adventure itself; if he starts to tell a bear-story, you get that after a while, but you get by the way a vivid description of gentian meadows and glacier lakes; or, if, as his readers know, he tells the story of Stickeen, his sturdy dog comrade over Alaskan glaciers, we get the story of the glaciers themselves, as well as of Stickeen, and we get, too, all unconsciously, much of the story of Stickeen's master" (Clara Barrus, "With John o' the Birds and John o' the Mountains," CENTURY MAGAZINE, August 1910 [volume 80, number 4]). BAL 14759. Some tanning to endpapers (interaction with jacket flaps), a fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with chips and short tears, mostly along top and bottom edges, and several faint internal tape ghosts. The jacket advertises Muir's OUR NATIONAL PARKS on the rear panel; no printed price appears on it. An uncommon book in the jacket. (#173242).
Price: $1,250.00
"Published March 1909" on copyright page.