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Sale 400: Americana - Hawaiiana - Africana - Travel & Exploration - Natural History (#400) 03/26/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #2Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail

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Sale 400: Americana - Hawaiiana - Africana - Travel & Exploration - Natural History (#400) 03/26/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Description

Title:

Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail

Author:

Adams, Ansel

Place Published:

Berkeley

Publisher:

Archetype Press

Date Published:

1938

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.

Item#:

197967

Headline:

Ansel Adams' John Muir Trail 1/500
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