Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World, Photographs and Recollections

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Very good minus/very good. 157pp. Oblong quarto [23.5 cm x 27 cm] Light green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Orange endpapers. The rear board has light moisture stains in the fore-edge corners. The pages in the second half of the book are very slightly rippled, a bit more so towards the rear (with light tide marks in the margins). In a dust jacket with light surface wear and fading to the edges of the rear panel. "Glen Canyon was 'peace and beauty and shade in the desert,' remembers photographer and naturalist Tad Nichols, who made the first of more than thirty journeys down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon in 1950. He fell in love with the canyon's majesty, returning again and again to capture its allure on film." Beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.