The Cruise of the Corwin by Muir, John - 1917

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Edition. 8vo. 279 pp. Index. Photographic plates (several by Edward Curtis) and drawings most from sketches by John Muir). Edited by William Frederic Bade. Gray cloth with color plate affixed to front cover; white lettering; top edge gilt; in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Gift inscription; light wear to extremites; else an about near fine copy in good only dustjacket (price clipped; darkening to spine and covers; flap corners clipped; partial separation along rear joint; wear to extremities; short closedd tears and creasing). In the spring of 1881, John Muir joined the expedition to Alaska and the far north in search of the steamer Jeannette and 2 whalers that had been missing since 1879; this book is composed of letters written to the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, supplemented with unpublished additions from his journal. (Kimes 348).