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Author: Adams, Ansel
Title: My Camera in the National Parks
Place: Boston
Publisher: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin
Date: 1950
Item # : 208028
Sale Number   410
Lot Number   3
Sale Name    
Art, Illustrated & Photography Books - Fine Printing - Fine Books in All Fields
Sale Date   08/20/2009
Price realized   $ 144
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Description:
Unpaginated. 30 photographs in black and white, printed on versos only, with interpretive text and informational material at front and rear. 14½x12. Printed cardboard covers, plastic comb binding, dust jacket. First Edition.
Signed by Ansel Adams on front flyleaf. A superb collection of beautiful glossy prints of protected American wilderness areas, including Glacier Bay National Monument, Yellowstone, Zion National Park, Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and other spots, including of course Adams' beloved Yosemite.
Condition:
Dust jacket moderately chipped at edges with some loss to spine, dampstain on lower edge of front panel, many closed tears; small and faint dampstain on bottom edge of front cover and first few leaves; photograph plates are fine; else very good.
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