MUIR, John. [A.R. Sargent].
Stickeen.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.
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John Muir's Stickeen; Inscribed by Him to Close Friend and Botanist Charles Sprague Sargent's Daughter-In-Law and In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
First edition, early printing of Muir’s beloved story of the little dog Stickeen and his perilous crossing of an Alaskan glacier. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. A.R. Sargent, with sincere regard, John Muir, June 7, 1911.” The recipient, Maria Cecelia de Acosta Sargent, was the wife of Andrew Robeson Sargent and daughter-in-law of the eminent botanist Charles Sprague Sargent, the founder and first director of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and a close friend and traveling companion of Muir. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A charming association copy.
Stickeen, first published in 1909, is John Muir’s most beloved short work, the true story of a small, aloof dog who followed Muir onto a glacier in Alaska in 1880 and, trapped with him on a narrow bridge of ice above a deep crevasse, shared an ordeal that Muir said taught him more of the inner life of animals than anything else in his experience. Muir told and retold the story for nearly three decades before setting it down in this small book, which has never been out of print and remains a classic of nature writing. John Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist known as the Father of the National Parks, was the founder and first president of the Sierra Club, and among his close friends was the recipient’s father-in-law, Charles Sprague Sargent, with whom he traveled and corresponded on the forests of America and the world.
Stickeen.
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