Austin mary text (2 Ergebnisse)

Abridged version, with photographs by Ansel Adams (preceeds 1974 illustrated edition). Octavo (26cm); yellow cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in orange on spine and front cover; illustrated map endpapers; 132pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) illustrations. All plates present and complete. Lacking dustjacket. John L. Morrison's pictorial bookplate to front endpaper. Spine-tanned (with fading to titling), rubbing with small loss of cloth to spine ends and board edges, and soil to covers and lower edge of textblock; Very Good. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1903, this collection explores the American Southwest through short stories and essays, including "East of Death Valley", "Lone Pike Peak and Rocks of the Alabama Hills", and "Sheep, Owens Valley". Appendix includes a note on the land and photographs, regional place names, and sources of excerpts used with photographs. [84853].…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Decorated green cloth with a nice pictorial image to the front cover and gilt detailing. Complete with 32 tipped-in colored plates, including the frontispiece, and a folding map of California to rear. Top edge gilt. Some wear to cloth on front hinge and head of spine (see image). Small card shadow to Chapter VI title page. Minor foxing to rear affecting the edges of the map (see image), but otherwise an attractive clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 7.25 x 9.5 in (18.5 x 24 cm). Sutton Palmer; Henry Hunt Clark (illustrator).…