Ansel Adams

Portfolio with 15 silver prints. Each print flush-mounted to card and signed in ball point pen below the image. With a printed paper label with information about the edition and numbered 239 in red ball point pen on the reverse of each card. Each card in a paper sleeve numbered I to XV and with poems by Russel Harrison Varian and John Osborne Varian printed on the cover. With two colophons numbered 239 in red ball point pen and with a text insert on Russel Varian. Number 239 from an edition 260. Edited by Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963.
In the original grey linen folio folding case with cloth ties.

Private Dutch collection

The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1998, s.p.

This portfolio is in excellent general condition. The prints are in excellent condition, the colophons, text inserts and paper sleeves crisp and clean, the case is in excellent condition.
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