Search Results: sierra nevada the john muir trail by ansel adams

Ansel Adams, 2006-10-25. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.7087 11.7323 9.7638.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006. hardcover. fine/no jacket. 9 7/8 x 11 3/4" 109 pages. priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire. "Composed of fifty photographs--many never published in book form again (except in original 500 copy limited edition in 1938) the book is an exquisite portrait of the mountain world of the California High Sierra.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Ansel Adams, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 10x0x11. Appears to be a first edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Large book. Publication of 109 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York and Boston: Little Brown Company, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint edition, very clean, tight and bright.

Small book plate on inside front cover.
The first major monograph of Adams' work, this book includes 50 tipped-in illustrations from photographs by Ansel Adams in the finest half-tone process of the time. Sierra Club member Walter Starr commissioned Adams to produce the book as a memorial to his son who was killed while solo climbing in the High Sierra. The elaborate publication was used as a sophisticated lobbying tool while Congress was voting on the establishment of the Kings Canyon National Park.
Limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 423 signed by Adams on the colophon leaf.

Archetype Press, Berkeley, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Worn and some stains (not affecting photos) but still a collectible copy of this monumental Adams work. Ansel Adams, at the age of 36, was commissioned to prepare a book of his photographs taken along the world famous John Muir Trail as a tribute to Walter A. Starr, Jr., a young American mountaineer. A landmark book in photography, the 1938 limited edition of Ansel Adams Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, was recognized as the highest quality photography book at the time. Representing the finest selection of Adams photographs of the High Sierra. White cloth with black printing. Folio limited to 500 copies. 50 tipped in illustrations of Adams' photos. Not much text, Signed by Adams on the limitation page. A stunning volume of some of Adams' best work. Housed in a gorgeous and sturdy custom-made clamshell case with leather label.