2 John Muir first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Mountains of California (1894) to My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that John Muir title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Mountains of California — 1894 · The Century Co.First edition, octavo, 381 pages, with a frontispiece, 50 relief halftone text illustrations, and 2 maps. First-issue copies carry the numeral '1' printed below the first line of text on page 1; later printings of the same year lack or alter this point. Bound in publisher's light brown cloth, gilt-stamped title, with gilt-and-green ink stamped decoration on the spine and front cover, top edge gilt. The book…. Later Century Co. reprints and subsequent reprint-house and paperback editions are reset and lack the gilt-and-green pictorial cloth stamping of the 1894 first.
My First Summer in the Sierra — 1911 · Houghton MifflinFirst trade edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1911 (published June 1911), with illustrations from the author's pencil sketches and from photographs (plates by Herbert W. Gleason and others) and a folding map; issued under the Riverside Press imprint. The first printing carries the 1911 imprint and no statement of later printings on the copyright page. True first US (Houghton Mifflin, 1911). The text first appeared in part in The Atlantic Monthly in 1911 before the full book. Constable issued the UK edition. Numerous later Houghton Mifflin and Sierra Club reprints exist; confirm the 1911 imprint and the absence of additional-printing notations. Modern illustrated reissues are 'first thus.'.

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