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Sale 374: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#374) 02/21/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 02/21/2008 1:00 PM PST

Lot #3 Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$5,000

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Description

Title:

Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail

Author:

Adams, Ansel

Place Published:

Berkeley

Publisher:

Archetype Press

Date Published:

1938

Description:

Illustrated with 50 tipped-in plates from photographs by Adams of the John Muir Trail; with tissue-guards. (Folio) 16¼x12¼, white buckram, lettered in black. Copy No. 366 of 500 copies. First Edition.

Signed by Ansel Adams in the colophon. Beautifully produced with photographic reproductions by the Lakeside Press.

Condition:

Moderate soiling to cloth, which seems inevitable; slight marginal yellowing to the paper, plates 44 & 47 with corners creased, ink signature of Harry Bennett to front free endpaper, else very good.

Item#:

189260

Headline:

Ansel Adams' John Muir Trail 1/500
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