ANSEL ADAMS. LETTERS AND IMAGES 1916-1984

Aliinder, Mary Street and Andrea Gray Stillman (editors)

Published by Little, Brown, and Company [New York Graphic Society], New York, 1958

About this Item

Square 4tol. (28 cm.) xii[2]1-402p. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Profusely illustrated throughout with black and white captioned photos by Ansel Adams and others, including several of Adams at various stages in his life. Chronology, Acknowledgments, and Index. Endpapers are facsimiles of letters written by Adams. Black cloth with silver letters on the spine and with Ansel Adams' signature blind stamped on the front cover. Lower right corner of front cover just barely rubbed through otherwise just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, silver bright, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket spine slightly faded as usual, else fine and not price-clipped. "I close this book of letters feeling as if I have just had a refreshing visit with a man whoxe character and attainments I great admired and whose company I loved. For the space of this reading, I have been back in the swarming vitality of his life. He has come out of the darkroom and joined those of us still hanging around in his living room The atmosphere is jovial, the air is full of talk, our somewhat low-keyed waiting has been reanimated. We wait, wrapped in the geniality and warmth he creates, laughing because he is laughing, but watching sidelong, a little breathlessly, hoping to catch that flash briefer than the win of a firefly--attending while he teaches us again, as he has taught us so many times before, how to see." [from the Foreword by Wallace Stegner, who was a friend of Adams for more than forty years.] Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman worked as Ansel Adams' assistants in the 1970s and 1980s. Alinder also edited ANSEL ADAMS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1985). A "must have" for any collector of Ansel Adams. Seller Inventory # 009235

Bibliographic Details

Title: ANSEL ADAMS. LETTERS AND IMAGES 1916-1984

Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company [New York Graphic Society], New York

Publication Date: 1958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition