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Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First printing, oblong elephant folio size, 137 pp., signed by Ansel Adams on the half-title page, with the original publisher's shipping box. A celebration of the stunning scenery of Yosemite National Park, this volume contains photographs by renowned photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984); the breathtaking landscapes exemplify Adams' proficiency in photography and capture the subject for which his work is best known. Nature writer Paul Brooks (1909-1998) provides an introduction to Adams' photographs; a prolific writer and editor, Brooks worked with authors such as James Agee, Rachel Carson, and Winston Churchill, even suggesting the title "Silent Spring" for Carson's seminal work. This volume signed by Adams directly on the half-title page, not on a bookplate. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter red cloth with slate grey cloth boards, gilt lettering on the spine, frontispiece a black-and-white photograph by Ansel Adams… Read More

San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company [The Tomoye Press], 1909. Hardcover. Very good +. Jenkins, Will. Sixteenmo size, 71 pp. This collection of poems by Agness Greene Foster was printed by the Tomoye Press, an imprint associated with Paul Elder & Company, a notable bookstore in San Francisco run by Paul Elder, who, in addition, published his own books. The Tomoye Press was Elder's collaboration with the eminent typographer and printer John Henry Nash (1871-1947), whose standards of quality were second to none. This volume is a careful execution of Foster's seasonal poetry, featuring Nash's excellent typesetting and decorations by Will Jenkins. ___DESCRIPTION: Full mauve paper with pink lettering and decorations on the front board, fore- and bottom edges uncut, purple endpapers, frontispiece a reproduction of an illustration titled "My Lady's Garden" by J. Young Hunter, with lettered tissue guard, title page with decoration by Will Jenkins in black; sixteenmo size (6.25" by 5.25"), pagination: [i-ii]… Read More