Ɵ ADAMS, Ansel: Books By and About: Seven Works: two SIGNED volumes, 1958-1996.

Ɵ ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Books By and About: Seven Works: Two volumes SIGNED by Ansel Adams. 1958-1996. comprises: Ansel Adams Images 1923 - 1974. SIGNED. Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1974). first trade, special edition prepared for Time-Life Books subscribers, with the signature of the photographer, oblong folio. (360 x 440mm), publisher's olive green cloth, silver lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by Ansel Adams, foreward by Wallace Stegner, 115 extended range b/w. photolithographic reproductions, 127pp. within glassine wrapper and contained in original brown card slipcase: ADAMS, Ansell. (1902 - 1984). and NEWHALL, Nancy. (1908 - 1974). This is the American Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960. first edition, folio, (350 x 270mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, numerous b/w. photographic illustrations after Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Edward Weston et al., 89pp: JOESTING, Edward. (1925 - 1986). The Islands of Hawaii. SIGNED. Bishop National Bank of Hawaii. (1958). first edition, oblong folio., (280 x 360mm), cream card wrappers, original rice paper dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED by Ansel Adams to title page, 105 b/w. photographs after Ansel Adams, text by Edward Joesting: ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Yosemite and the Range of Light. New York Graphic Society, Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1979. oblong folio.,(310 x 390mm) publisher's grey, maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, introduction by Paul Brooks, 28pp. plus numerous photographic illustrations: BOHN, Dave. Glacier Bay. The Land and the Silence. Sierra Club, San Francisco (1967). Exhibit Format Series, first edition, 4to., (350 x 270mm), fawn cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, blue map illustrated e.ps., b/w. and colour photo. illustrated and text by Dave Bohn, edited by David Brower, 165pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper: SHIRAKAWA, Yoshikazu (b.1935). Himalayas. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1971. first US. Deluxe edition, elephant folio., (420 x 310mm), original white faux morocco, red and black lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Ishibumi Mizuno, black e/ps., full and double-page colour photographs by Yoshikazu Shirakawa. 6 large folding panoramas, 2 folding maps at end, foreword by Arnold Toynbee, introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, and a testimony by Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, king of Nepal, with an accompanying 34pp. pamphlet, 'Notes to the Photographer', all contained within a black cloth folding slipcase, stamped in red and white, paper title label, and bone tie: ALINDER, Mary Street. (b. 1946). Ansel Adams. A Biography. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996. first edition, black cloth over grey paper boards, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, b/w. photo. illustrated throughout, 489pp. (7)

Condition Report:
1. Ansel Adams Images 1923 - 1974 - a clean copy, the signature page detached and loosely inserted, slipcase worn, stained and a little scuffed.

2. This is the American Earth - clean copy.

3. The Island of Hawaii - foxing to card wrappers, part of front dustwrapper, and e/ps., clean internally.

4. Yosemite and the Range of Light - some marks and toning to leaf edges, o/w. a clean copy.

5. The Land and the Silence - a few marks to dustwrapper, o/w. a clean copy.

6. Himalayas - a clean copy. slipcase stained and a little scuffed, signature page detached and loosely inserted.

7. Ansel Adams. A Biography - a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer