Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley
- Spiral Bound
- San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc, 1940
San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc, 1940. First printing. Spiral Bound. Very Good. 127pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Blue and white printed wraps with a white plastic spiral binding. With light edgewear to the wraps, and small, light stains to the preliminary and terminal pages. The majority of the pages are clean and bright. A guide book illustrated from photographs by Ansel Adams.
"The latest effort to condense the valley into handy, pocket size is that by Virginia and Ansel Adams, two individuals who have probably walked over as much of it as anyone. They have produced a 130-page book of unique physical appearance, lavishly documented with forty-five of Ansel Adams' best lens-scapes. The volume boasts... an abundance of maps and lists, which add to its usableness. It begins with a discussion of the valley's geologic history, canvasses the roads and trails in more or less logical order, and concludes with a series of reference lists on birds, reptiles, trees, and flowers, a historical chronology, and a curt bibliography compiled by Francis P. Farquhar." - William B. Rice (Pacific Historical Review Volume 10, Issue 2, June 1941, p. 266; University of California Press).
"The latest effort to condense the valley into handy, pocket size is that by Virginia and Ansel Adams, two individuals who have probably walked over as much of it as anyone. They have produced a 130-page book of unique physical appearance, lavishly documented with forty-five of Ansel Adams' best lens-scapes. The volume boasts... an abundance of maps and lists, which add to its usableness. It begins with a discussion of the valley's geologic history, canvasses the roads and trails in more or less logical order, and concludes with a series of reference lists on birds, reptiles, trees, and flowers, a historical chronology, and a curt bibliography compiled by Francis P. Farquhar." - William B. Rice (Pacific Historical Review Volume 10, Issue 2, June 1941, p. 266; University of California Press).