This Book is a First Edition of Ansel Adams' SEiRRA NEVADA: THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL by the Archetype Press, Berkeley 1938, 13 x 17 inches, 202 pages, cloth, some very light soiling and discoloration to cloth (cover has been protected by plastic cover) , little or no fading to spine and 2. Very minor discoloration to all the page edges, common with a publication of this age. This was the first major monograph of Adams' work. The book includes tipped-in illustrations from photographs by Ansel Adams printed in the finest half-tone process of the time. Sierra Club member Walter Starr commissioned Adams to produce the book as a memorial to his son who was killed while climbing in the High Sierra. This elaborate publication was used as a sophisticated lobbying tool while Congress was voting on the establishment of Kings Canyon National Park. First Edition, Limited edition: 500 numbered and Signed copies by Adams. This copy is #84th edition.

It was formerly owned by my Uncle from New Zealand. He gave it to me 2009 when I went there to study.