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Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ansel Adams (photography) (illustrator). First Thus. 4to. Pp. xv, 133. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions. Introduction by Carl Van Doren, appendices including key to place names. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Yellow cloth, titles stamped in pale orange on the cover and spine, endpaper maps. Edges minimally soiled, former owner name in ink on front pastedown. In the two color photo illustrated dust jacket with price $6.00 intact on the front flap: edges moderately rubbed and crimped, closed tears to the front head edge and back flap, spine ends lightly chipped. Withal, the book presents well. Mary Hunter Austin's 1903 classic collection of essays on the Sierra-Mojave landscape and inhabitants, augmented with photos it inspired Adams to compose, with his notes. A handsome production.Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Small 4to, 132 (4)pp; yellow cloth stamped in orange. This edition contains 48 photos by Adams, along with notes on the photos and an afterword by Adams, in part paying tribute to Austin (1868-1934) who had previously written text for Adams's first book, Taos Pueblo (1930). The Land of Little Rain was originally published in 1903 and is a classic of Californiana, a Zamorano 80 title. Gift inscription to front endpaper; top edge lightly dusted; close to fine in an unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to spine, a closed tear and a surface scratch to the rear panel, a few small chips and some fraying at spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Facsimile Edition. 1/950. Elephant folio. Blind-stamped half leather over sienna cloth resting in matching cloth slipcase. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated title-page plus facsimile of original title-page from 1930 edition, along with the original colophon for copy no.1 (signed by Adams and Austin). Some fading at edges and mild waterstain to slipcase, else a fine, clean copy. Copy no. 775, signed by Adams at the colophon. Fabulous collaboration between Ansel Adams (1902-1984) and Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934), the result being this book about Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, the religious center for Taos Indians. Taos Pueblo's most prominent architectural feature is the multi-storied residential complex built approximately 1000 years ago of straw, earth and water (adobe). Its residents believe it to be the oldest continuously inhabited community in North America and are known to be one of the most secretive and conservative pueblos. Mary Austin was a prolific American novelist, poet, critic, playwright, as well as an early feminist. Her text in this work perfectly compliment the stunning photographs by Adams. Illustrated with 12 reproductions of photographs in duo tone of the inhabitants and the architecture of Taos Pueblo. The photos were taken in 1930 and it's immediate success laid the foundation for Adams to become one of the most well known and finest photographers of the 20th century. Signed in black ink by Ansel Adams on limitation leaf. Text printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, photograph reproduced by George Waters, woodcut motifs by Valentia Angelo. Afterword by Weston J. Naef.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. ***A BEAUTIFUL NEAR MINT, NEAR FINE, LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE COPY OF ANSEL ADAMS MONUMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT: TAOS PUEBLO*** Flat-signed in ink by Ansel Adams on the limitations page and numbered #413 out of only 950 copies. It is an excellent facsimile of the rare Grabhorn original edition of only 108 that was published in 1930. An original copy costs anywhere between $60,000 - $120,000 on rare book sites and at prestigious auction houses. OVERALL CONDITION: NEAR FINE Published by New York Graphics Society (an imprint of Little, Brown and Company) in 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1/4 tan leather over orange linen and housed in its original orange linen slipcase. Five raised spine bands. Orange marbled endpapers. Photographed by Ansel Easton Adams and described by Mary Austin. Twelve b/w photographs by Adams, woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo. Bound by Vincent Mullins. The photographs were printed in beautiful duotone from photogravures by George Waters at Pacific Litho. Tall folio, 12¾" x 17¾. ABOUT TAOS PUEBLO When Ansel Adams traveled to New Mexico for his fourth time in April 1929, the majesty of the desert had already started to ingrain itself deep in his soul. During this particular trip, Ansel began to develop a lasting and very rewarding collaboration with feminist writer and bohemian Mary Austin. The artistic duet between Ansel and Mary in this particular case spawned the creation of Taos Pueblo, an exceptional project at the intersection of their two careers as photographer and writer. Ansel and Mary decided upon the subject of the Pueblo of Taos for their creative collaboration. Their dream came to fruition with the help of friend Tony Lujan, a Taos Indian, whose wife Mabel, heiress and patron of the arts, hosted Ansel and Mary at her home in Los Gallos, Taos. Tony Lujan approached the Governor of Taos, who in turn held a Council Meeting, and the following day granted Ansel permission to photograph the Pueblo A seminal work in Ansel s career, and a landmark photography book, Taos Pueblo is considered by many to be the greatest pictorial representation of the American West. With the publication of Taos Pueblo, Ansel launched his career as arguably the greatest landscape photographer of our time. CONDITION: NF The book is in NEAR FINE (many would say FINE) condition, some light rubbing to spine tips and a few scuffs to the leather spine else FINE. Interior looks brand new and is FINE to VERY FINE - clean, bright pages with no writing, bookplates, stamps or wear. The slip case is lightly rubbed and would be considered NEAR FINE. I have bought and sold books and art on eBay for over a decade and have a 100% satisfaction rating. I am now selling on ABE Books. I m a collector first and know what it's like to receive items not matching the seller s descriptions or that were poorly packaged and damaged in transit. That is why I offer a 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee, and go to great lengths to accurately describe my rare, signed and collectible books and post pictures of the "actual book." I carefully package and ship your newly acquired treasure(s) and ship within 1 business day of receiving your order.

Folio, original cloth covered boards with calf spine. One of 950 copies, signed by Adams, printed by Lawton Kennedy, the photographs printed in duotone by George Waters at Pacific Litho. This edition, an excellent facsimile of the rare 1930 first edition, contains a new afterword by Weston Naef. Fine condition with slipcase, as issued. With a laid-in autograph of Ansel Adams on an insert from a roll of Tri-X film.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. With 12 fine-screen duotone photographic plates by Adams. New afterword by Weston J. Naef. Folio, measuring approximately 12¾" x 17¾". Niger leather-backed clothcovered boards in clothcovered slipcase. Fine in near fine slipcase with a small, very faint stain in one corner. Copy 200 of 950 copies Signed by Adams on the limitation page. Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, title page with a design by Valenti Angelo, and bound by Vincent Mullens. A nicely produced facsimile of the rare 1930 edition, which was published in only 108 copies.

First edition, first printing in this format. No. 944 of 950 copies signed by Adams. This is a facsimile edition of Adams's book first published in 1930, which was limited to 108 copies. Folio. Original brick cloth with brown leather spine bound by Vincent Mullins. Housed in a brick cloth slipcase. With 12 black and white photographic reproductions by Adams. All in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. Folio. Signed limited edition; Number 219 of 950 copies signed by Ansel Adams on the limitation page. Quarter bound tan leather over orange linen cloth, in publisher's orange linen slipcase. Near Fine, with several faint scratches to cloth and leather spine, else Fine. A facsimile edition of the rare 1930 edition, of which only 108 copies were originally privately printed for Ansel Adams. Extra postage will be required for international shipment, please contact us first for rates.

Limited SIGNED facsimile edition, 756 of 950 copies, signed by Adams. 12 b/w photographs by Adams, woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo. Folio. Facsimile edition of Adams's first book, published by the Grabhorn Press in 1930 and now extremely difficult to attain in its first printing. "Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on the West" (Reese). Cf. Roth 101, pg 58-59 & Reese, The Best of the West, no. 242 (for first edition). Provenance: photographer Richard Corman (gift inscription on flyleaf) Quarter leather and cloth, light scuffing to spine, else fine in sunned slipcase 12 b/w photographs by Adams, woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo. Folio Limited SIGNED facsimile edition, 756 of 950 copies, signed by Adams.

First edition, first printing in this format. No. 895 of 950 copies signed by Adams. This is a facsimile edition of Adams' book first published in 1930, which was limited to 108 copies. Folio. Original brick cloth with brown leather spine bound by Vincent Mullins. Housed in a brick cloth slipcase. With 12 black and white photographic reproductions by Adams. All in fine condition.

Folio. (17 x 12 1/2 inches). [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text. 12 original mounted photographs, printed on Dassonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6 1/2 inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Publisher's tan morocco backed orange cloth, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom morocco backed slipcase. From an edition of 108 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. The most famous of modern photographic works on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams' photographs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular of photographers of the American West. "It was at Taos and Santa Fe that Ansel Adams first saw the Southwest. The time was the spring of 1927. His visit resulted in a Grabhorn Press book now of legendary rarity. It includes Ansel Adams' photographs and Mary Austin's essay on Taos Pueblo. Genius has never been more happily wed. Nowhere else did she write prose of such precise and poetical authority . Their Taos Pueblo is a true and beautiful book by two consummate artists" (Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest, 1970, p. xxv). Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. This example is signed by both Austin and Adams and is in beautiful condition. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful photographs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest. Heller & Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography 137; Roth, The Book of 101 Books 58.