Ansel Adams

(New York: Parasol Press, 1976, a total edition of 115), a portfolio of 11 gelatin silver prints and one Polaroid print, the gelatin silver prints mounted, signed and with sequential numbers and edition 'H/115' in pencil on the mount or on the mat, portfolio and collection stamps on the reverse of the mount or mat, the Polaroid print signed in pencil in the margin, 1932-76, each printed in 1976; together with the title, dedication to David Hunter McAlpin, foreward by Adams, plate list, and colophon.  Folio, beige cloth clamshell box (Portfolios, pp. 111-121)

These photographs and the portfolio case are in generally excellent condition. This portfolio was issued in an edition of 100, plus 15 lettered copies, of which this is lettered copy 'H.' On the reverse of each mount is a collection stamp that reads: 'Photograph by Ansel Adams / Anne Adams Helms Collection.' Plates are as follows: White Branches, Mono Lake, California Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona Boards and Thistles, San Francisco, California Tree, Stump and Mist, Northern Cascades, Washington Gerry Sharpe, Ouray, Colorado Aspens, Northern New Mexico Interior of Tumacacori Mission, Arizona Cemetery Statue and Oil Derricks, Long Beach, California Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California El Capitan, Sunrise, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California Sunrise, Mount Tom, Sierra Nevada, California Water and Rock, Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, ca. 1976 (original Polaroid)
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The plates are as follows:

White Branches, Mono Lake, California

Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona

Boards and Thistles, San Francisco, California

Tree, Stump and Mist, Northern Cascades, Washington

Gerry Sharpe, Ouray, Colorado

Aspens, Northern New Mexico

Interior of Tumacacori Mission, Arizona

Cemetery Statue and Oil Derricks, Long Beach, California

Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California

El Capitan, Sunrise, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California

Sunrise, Mount Tom, Sierra Nevada, California

Water and Rock, Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, ca. 1976 (original Polaroid)