About this title: A beautiful collection of Adams' work, hand-picked by himself--a last statement portfolio to represent his life's work intended to be exhibited throughout the country as The Museum Set. 76 duotones.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Hardcover Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8 3/4 x 10 1/4 Inches. Nice tight, square copy, bound in black cloth; text is clean, bright, and unmarked, with no creased or torn pages; exterior clean; binding shows mild rubbing at corners and spine ends; short gift inscription on half-title. A definitive collection of Ansel Adams' work, with commentary by James Alinder and John Szarkowski. Originally published in slightly different form as the paperback catalogue for the National Gallery of Art exhibition. read more
Edition: 2nd printing
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Very Good in Good Dust Jacket; In Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket edges rubbed with small chips. Interior pages are excellent with numerous b/w photo illustrations by Adams. 0821216295. Sm4to.; 110 Pages. pages. read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Large Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light shelfwear to dustjacket, including some surface scratching. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. Nice, sturdy copy. These classic photographs were selected by the late Ansel Adams himself to be permanently representative of his work. Included are familiar scenic compositions like Moonrise, Hernandez and Half Dome, Yosemite, but there are also portraiture and closeups of patterns in nature. Alinder, director of Friends of Photography, chronicles Adams's life ... read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Black Cloth
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Small quarto. 112 pages. Illustrated with 75 plates. A fine copy in a slightly worn, else near-fine dust jacket with a mylar cover. read more
Description: Fine. 0821216295 SLight fanning to dust jacket edge. Price clipped inside dust jacket. Your satisfaction is of course guaranteed. We ship the same or next day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 0821216295. Publisher is New York Graphic Society/Little Brown & Company. Dustjacket is tattered at edges and rubbed. Boards edgeworn. Boards slightly warped.; 0.71 x 10 x 8.58 Inches; 111 pages. read more
Edition: 6th Pr
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Adams, Ansel. Very Good in Very Good jacket. HB w/DJ, 111pp, 0.6 x 8.75 x 10.25 inches, 1.6 lb; [VG/VG; remainder mark on bottom edge; DJ lightly scuffed]. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown And Co.; New York Graphic Society, Boston, Massachussets
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Illustrated by Ansel Adams. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0821216295. 4to-25.5 x 21.5 cm.; 111 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine. A short biography of Adams followed by 75 of his photographs. Plate list follows, then a chronology. The images are printed on a Centura Gloss paper which accounts for the excellent reproduction. A rather nice book of this type, but-that it is filled with Adams' photographs-it becomes a real treasure. DJ is clipped and in Brodart. read more
Edition: Marked First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Illustrated by Adams, Ansel. Very Good in Good dust jacket; 125737 1985 Hardbound in black cloth with silver gilt. Dust jacket edge and corner worn, no previous owner marks. A thorough biography of Ansel Adams, followed by prints of many of his most famous photos. 0821216295. Photographs; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 111 pp. pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York Graphic Sociaety Book, Little Brown and Co., New York and Boston
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: 111p., frontis, introduction, chronology, illustrated with 75 b&w plates from photos, very good first hardcover edition in sunned dj. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York Graphic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + jacket. Hardcover. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. First Hardcover Edition. NF/VG+. Quarto; black cloth; silver gilt titles; 111 pp.; illustrated with 76 duotones; light edgewear to the price-clipped jacket. A clean, tight, near fine copy in a very good or better jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, New York, NY
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 111 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ title on spine. Very bright and clean. DJ lightly rubbed. Illust. w/ 76 duotone photos. Contents very nice. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; A Bullfinch Press Book, Boston, Toronto, London
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: Very Good in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, silver gilt, 111 pp., chiefly illus., bib. notes; 27 cm. Based on a catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 1985-Jan. 12, 1986. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. With an essay by James Alinder and an Introduction by John Szarkowski, Director of the Photography Department at MoMA. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: New York Graphic Society, Little Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780821216293ISBN:0821216295
Description: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 111 pp., hardcover in dj in mylar. Including 76 illus. Owner's name inside. Near fine/near fine. read more
"As the titled indicates, this book is a collection of Ansel Adams' classic photographs. Since I had heard of this great American photographer but had no idea who he was or what his work was about, I decided to check out this book from the library. For me, I appreciated learning about Adams' family history, as well as how his passion for photography evolved from a hobby towards a lifelong vocation. After paging through this book several times, it is my opinion that Adams' photographic work really is masterful and artful. I hope to find other titles by or about Adams from which to learn from."
"Walsall Art Gallery in the West Midlands, UK, is currently displaying most of the pictures in this book. They are much better in real than in the book but having seen them the book is a great way of reminding us how good the originals are. This would have been 5 stars if it were not for a photograph where the printers (Italian) had messed up and blodged a bit on one photograph. I shall write to the publishers and tell them. We got the book with discount so don't feel so bad.
Ansel Adams is well known for his black and white photographs of the natural landscape of United States, many of which were taken in Yosemite National Park. He was a shaker in the early environmental movement and was instrumental in the conservation of much of wild America. The USA was the first in the world in setting up protected areas of countryside. Ansel didn't like the 'pictorialism' of early American photography and promoted 'realism'. This meant a move away from soft impressionistic type photography towards a harder, more focused, everything sharp, highly contrasty type of photography that reflected the new technology rather than looking back to the softness of painters at the end of the 19th century and in the early part of the 20th century. He used a technique of 'visualisation' where he planned how the photograph was going to look prior to taking the photograph. This would include all of the darkroom techniques that he employed in the developing and printing of his pictures."
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