This Is the American Earth
This Is the American Earth by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, published by The Sierra Club in 1960. This is the large-format hardcover first edition, fourth printing, complete with its pictorial dust jacket. The volume measures approximately 34.5 x 26 cm, and bibliographic listings place its weight at approximately 1.33 kg.
A landmark American photobook and the inaugural volume in the Sierra Club’s Exhibit Format series, it combines Nancy Newhall’s conservation-minded narrative with more than 80 black-and-white photographs. Ansel Adams’s celebrated landscape images appear alongside work by photographers including Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Eliot Porter, Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wynn Bullock, Minor White and others. The sequence contrasts wilderness, settlement and industrial development to make a powerful visual argument for the protection of America’s natural heritage.
The book and dust jacket are in Very Good overall condition. Minor page toning is present. The jacket shows visible surface rubbing or light soiling, edge and corner wear, and small creases or losses around the lower corners. The representative interior spreads shown retain strong black-and-white reproduction and appear generally clean, without obvious markings or tears on those photographed pages.
Please review all photographs carefully, as they form part of the description and show the actual copy offered.
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This Is the American Earth by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, published by The Sierra Club in 1960. This is the large-format hardcover first edition, fourth printing, complete with its pictorial dust jacket. The volume measures approximately 34.5 x 26 cm, and bibliographic listings place its weight at approximately 1.33 kg.
A landmark American photobook and the inaugural volume in the Sierra Club’s Exhibit Format series, it combines Nancy Newhall’s conservation-minded narrative with more than 80 black-and-white photographs. Ansel Adams’s celebrated landscape images appear alongside work by photographers including Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Eliot Porter, Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wynn Bullock, Minor White and others. The sequence contrasts wilderness, settlement and industrial development to make a powerful visual argument for the protection of America’s natural heritage.
The book and dust jacket are in Very Good overall condition. Minor page toning is present. The jacket shows visible surface rubbing or light soiling, edge and corner wear, and small creases or losses around the lower corners. The representative interior spreads shown retain strong black-and-white reproduction and appear generally clean, without obvious markings or tears on those photographed pages.
Please review all photographs carefully, as they form part of the description and show the actual copy offered.
