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<p>[QUOTE="DonZ, post: 365166, member: 7623"]Thanks for the welcome and all of the responses so far; the info has been very helpful. And Figtree3 you are correct; the individual volumes contained in the John Muir "Writings" collection had all been published previously as stand-alone books, and this 10-volume collection was limited to 750 copies for the first edition. I believe there were at least a couple of subsequent editions, including a "Sierra Club" edition.</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">I ended up acquiring a numbered first edition "manuscript" set (263/750) which seems to fit the "library edition" description as far as bindings go, and thus was a lot less expensive than ones which were produced with higher-end bindings and such. The set happened to contain a leaf from Muir's manuscript describing a species of pine tree which particularly resonated with me, so I lucked out relatively speaking, price-wise. Good to know about the publishers' practice of offering different bindings; I was wondering if that was common. </span></font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonZ, post: 365166, member: 7623"]Thanks for the welcome and all of the responses so far; the info has been very helpful. And Figtree3 you are correct; the individual volumes contained in the John Muir "Writings" collection had all been published previously as stand-alone books, and this 10-volume collection was limited to 750 copies for the first edition. I believe there were at least a couple of subsequent editions, including a "Sierra Club" edition. [LEFT][SIZE=16px][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)] I ended up acquiring a numbered first edition "manuscript" set (263/750) which seems to fit the "library edition" description as far as bindings go, and thus was a lot less expensive than ones which were produced with higher-end bindings and such. The set happened to contain a leaf from Muir's manuscript describing a species of pine tree which particularly resonated with me, so I lucked out relatively speaking, price-wise. Good to know about the publishers' practice of offering different bindings; I was wondering if that was common. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT][/QUOTE]
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