Blanche Stallings (6 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. From Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1945. First Edition. December, 1945 [Vol 30, No. 6]. Original printed wrappers, 9" x 6", 100 pp. Photographs. Very good plus to about near fine; spine is complete but has been wrinkled under pressure; light crease at upper right front cover. See scans. Twenty-four illustrations - those being black and white photos of the typical high quality standards of the club; 16 of those are by Ansel Adams. Daniel H. Condit contributed four, Walter Herz and Weldon F. Heald two each. Articles (see scan of contents page) cover the inspiring topics the club has always focused on, and were contributed by Adams, Heald, Condit, David R. Brower, Charlotte E. Mauk, Blanche Stallings, Randall Henderson, and Harriet T. Parsons. Regular departments as well, of course. SC1.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. From Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1945. First Edition. December, 1945 [Vol 30, No. 6]. Original printed wrappers, 9" x 6", 100 pp. Photographs. Very, very Near Fine, immaculate but for a corner chip affecting two pages of photo plates, with little or no affect on the photos themselves. Twenty-four illustrations - those being black and white photos of the typical high quality standards of the club; 16 of those are by Ansel Adams, and one of the scanned images shows two of those. Daniel H. Condit contributed four, Walter Herz and Weldon F. Heald two each. Articles (see scan of contents page) cover the inspiring topics the club has always focused on, and were contributed by Adams, Heald, Condit, David R. Brower, Charlotte E. Mauk, Blanche Stallings, Randall Henderson, and Harriet T. Parsons. Regular departments as well, of course. SC2.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1941. The February, 1941 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXVI, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 193 pp. (158 pp. numbered, 34 plates, one onionskin). Quite Near Fine, with in fact no salient flaws to point to; this example is, in all likelihood, in the same condition in which it was originally received in 1941. See all scans. This issue feature a 16-plate section of majestic photos of the King's Canyon National Park by Cedric Wright (as well as two other Wright plates elsewhere); a fold-out reproduced map of the San Joaquin Valley, originally created by Lieutenant Jose Maria Estudillo in 1819; and onionskin foldout map of the Mt. Whitney Region, executed by the Sierra Club itself, new for this issue; an 1875 article on the King's River Valley by John Muir, originally published in The Daily Evening Bulletin; two 1875 photos by W.E. James which may be the first photographs ever taken in the King's Canyon National Park; sketch-illustrated pieces on climbing and camping; and a lot more. See scan of contents page. Photographers: Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James. Writers of the above-mentioned pieces and others on Mountain Wind, King's River Sierra, Mount Avon, End of the Rope, High and Dry, Little Gem Company, Snowpatch, the legislative history of Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park, Botany, Mountain Photography, and Mountaineering Notes include: Francis P. Farquhar; John Muir; Ansel Adams; Joseph N. LeConte; Norman Livermore; Charlotte E. Mauk; Weldon F. Heald; Blanche Stallings; Fritz Lippmann; John Thomas Howell; May Pridham; Cedric Wright; Bestor Robinson; Leland Curtis; John D. and Ruth Mendenhall; Arthur B. Johnson; Braeme Gigas; Howard Koster. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LSC2.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Ansel Adams; Cedric Wright; Henry E. Timby; John Dyer, David R.Brower, Richard M. Leonard, Francis P. Farquhar, Allen Estes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine. Yes, Fine. So many decades old; this condition is rare. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1940. The February, 1940 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXV, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 172 pp. (138 pp.+ 2 + 32 plates). Fine; no flaws. Contents immaculate. See all images. This issue features a piece on Albert Marshall, as well as four of his mountain wilderness drawings; a piece by Matterhorn specialist David Starr Jordan and three portrait photos of him; 2 Ansel Adams photos; Numerous photos by Cedric Wright and Henry E. Timby; photos as well by John Dyer, David R.Brower, Richard M. Leonard, Francis P. Farquhar, & Allen Estes; a ranking of Yosemite climbs by difficulty class; also the 1st Ascent of Shiprock; the 1st High Horse Trip; John Muir Trail; Matterhorn; Early Popocatepetl Ascents; Roping Down; Tripping High; Robert Martin Price; Climber's Guide; Sierras of the South; a lot more. See scan of contents page. Writers of the above-mentioned pieces and others include: Francis P. Farquhar (Editor); Bestor Robinson; David R. Brower; Anita Day Hubbard; Charlotte E. Mauk; Theodore S. Solomons; Richard M. Leonard; Blanche Stallings; Weldon F. Heald; David Starr Jordan; Henry R. Wagner; Cedric Wright; and William E. Colby. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LNG3.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 140 pp. Original Printed Wraps, Good with marginal tears, creasing, & faint staining to cover. Illustrated, B&W Photographs, fold-out map. Featured Photograph of a sylvan glade in Alaska by Ansel Adams. First Edition.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 110 pp. Original Printed Wraps, Good with loss along edge of page 63-64, faint stains to covers, else VG+. Illustrated, B&W Photographs, maps. Moonrise, Half Dome, Yosemite, (Featured Photograph by Ansel Adams). First Edition.