The Land of Little Rain

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1950. Abridged version, with photographs by Ansel Adams (preceeds 1974 illustrated edition). Octavo (26cm); yellow cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in orange on spine and front cover; illustrated map endpapers; 132pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) illustrations. All plates present and complete. Lacking dustjacket. John L. Morrison's pictorial bookplate to front endpaper. Spine-tanned (with fading to titling), rubbing with small loss of cloth to spine ends and board edges, and soil to covers and lower edge of textblock; Very Good.

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1903, this collection explores the American Southwest through short stories and essays, including "East of Death Valley", "Lone Pike Peak and Rocks of the Alabama Hills", and "Sheep, Owens Valley". Appendix includes a note on the land and photographs, regional place names, and sources of excerpts used with photographs. [84853].