The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park: A Photographic Story of Yosemite's Spectacular Scenery

Los Angeles: Yosemite Park and Curry Company / Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1936. Good -. Los Angeles: Yosemite Park and Curry Company / Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1936. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm); [46]pp. B&W photos throughout with color frontis and full-spread map at center. Side-stapled brown paper wraps. Covers edgeworn with creasing to corners; patch of white discoloration at bottom front edge; waterspot to front with dampstain over tail of spine, which carries through pages with some rippling and distress to paper occasionally losing text. Prior owner's name in pencil on flyleaf, else interior unmarked. Binding (truncated) is sound.

Collection of Yosemite photos, apparently published without Adams knowledge (until he saw a copy in a Yosemite gift shop) after some confusion by the Yosemite Park & Curry Company as to who owned the negatives of his work for the YP&CC. [Mary Street Alinder; Ansel Adams: A Biography]. (Inventory #: 32446)