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Author: Adams, Ansel
Title: Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: Archetype Press
Date: 1938
Item # : 197967
Sale Number   402
Lot Number   2
Sale Name    
Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sale Date   04/30/2009
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 5,000
High Estimate   $ 8,000
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Description:
Illustrated with 50 tipped-in plates from photographs by Adams of the John Muir Trail; with tissue-guards. (Folio) 16¼x12¼, white buckram, lettered in black. Copy No. 279 of 500 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Ansel Adams in the colophon. Beautifully produced with photographic reproductions by the Lakeside Press.
Condition:
Moderate soiling to cloth, which seems inevitable, ¼" diameter brown spot on front cover below title; slight marginal yellowing to the paper, slight corner crease to plates 7 & 27, else very good.
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