One of the most important books by Robert Adams in a beautiful copy of the limited first edition. Excellent overall condition. Some unobstrusive spots on the cover and a decent flaw at the back hinge. "In the fall of 1968, Robert Adams (...) found himself inexplicably drawn to photograph a nondescript area south of Colorado Springs whose most notable feature was a truck stop off the interstate. Unflinching in their description yet embodying a mysteriously radiant peace, the pictures Adams made of the otherwise graceless site confirmed for him a vital new way of relating to the world. He would parlay this revelation into The New West, the book that would establish both his photographs and his subject—the contemporary landscape of the American frontier (...)."