Eliot Porter

(New York: Daniel Wolf Press, 1979, an edition of 250), a portfolio of 10 dye-transfer prints, each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, in individual wrappers, 1956-77, printed circa 1979; together with printed title, plate list, and colophon, signed and numbered '213' in ink.  Folio, taupe linen clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather label

The dye-transfer prints are in generally excellent condition, with vivid saturated color. There are a few fingerprints on the mounts and on the wrappers. The plates are listed below: Columbine leaves, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. July 27, 1974 Stones and cracked mud. Black Place, New Mexico. June 9, 1977 Foxtail grass. Lake City, Colorado. August, 1957 - There is a tiny loss of emulsion along the right print edge. Rock-eroded stream bed. Coyote Gulch, Utah. August 14, 1971 River edge at sunset. Below Piute Rapids, San Juan River, Colorado. May 24, 1962 Frostbitten apples. Tesuque, New Mexico. November 21, 1906 Trunks of maple and birch with oak leaves. Passaconaway Road, New Hampshire. October 7, 1956 Redbud trees in bottomland. Near Red River Gorge, Kentucky. April 17, 1968 Shadbush. Near Hillsborough, New Hampshire. April 28, 1957 Colorful trees. Newfound Gap Road, Great Smokey Mountains, National Park, Tennessee. October, 1967
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The plates are as follows:

Columbine leaves, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. July 27, 1974

Stones and cracked mud. Black Place, New Mexico. June 9, 1977

Foxtail grass. Lake City, Colorado. August, 1957

Rock-eroded stream bed. Coyote Gulch, Utah. August 14, 1971

River edge at sunset. Below Piute Rapids, San Juan River, Colorado. May 24, 1962

Frostbitten apples. Tesuque, New Mexico. November 21, 1906

Trunks of maple and birch with oak leaves. Passaconaway Road, New Hampshire. October 7, 1956

Redbud trees in bottomland. Near Red River Gorge, Kentucky. April 17, 1968

Shadbush. Near Hillsborough, New Hampshire. April 28, 1957

Colorful trees. Newfound Gap Road, Great Smokey Mountains, National Park, Tennessee. October, 1967