My Camera in the National Parks by Ansel Adams 30 Photographs with interpretive text and information material on the Parks and Monuments and photographic date 1st Edition Signed by Ansel Adams
by Adams, Ansel
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- G-VG in edgeworn and rubbed wraps/no dustwrapper
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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Boston: Virginia Adams and Hougton Mifflin Company, 1950. Signed 1st Edition. stiff card. G-VG in edgeworn and rubbed wraps/no dustwrapper. 37 x 31cm. b&w photo illustrations Flat-signed by Ansel Adams to front endpaper; 30 full-page b&w photo illustrations of US National Parks, the formal publication resulting from Adams's first Guggenheim Fellowship (1946), and including such classic images as 'Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone', 'Mount McKinley Sunrise', and 'The Teton Range and Snake River'; each plate with titling on facing page; includes artist's statement, a note on the meaning of the National Parks, photographic notes and data, and a plate-by-plate commentary detailing technical data, such as type of camera, lenses, filters, photographic paper (Kodak Panatomic-X sheet film, Super Panchro-Press etc), plus a paragraph on the specifics relating to each location; finally Informative Notes on the National Parks and Monuments, and a list of suggested reading; original heavy card wraps, comb-binding; heavy foxing to front and rear endpapers, lighter to title page and text block, knock to lower corner, with subsequent mild creases to corners of pages, o.w. G-VG throughout; all plates clean with no marks or foxing; wraps heavily rubbed and foxed, and with wear along lower front; lacks the dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY ITEM MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION.
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22907
- Title
- My Camera in the National Parks by Ansel Adams 30 Photographs with interpretive text and information material on the Parks and Monuments and photographic date 1st Edition Signed by Ansel Adams
- Author
- Adams, Ansel
- Format/Binding
- Stiff card
- Book Condition
- Used - G-VG in edgeworn and rubbed wraps
- Jacket Condition
- no dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Virginia Adams and Hougton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1950
- Pages
- 97pp
- Size
- 37 x 31cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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