ENJOY THE NEWEST EDITION of the SUPER POPULAR SINGLE-SELLER AUCTIONS by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany). Offering some of the BEST PHOTOBOOKS WORLDWIDE - from my private collection and from recent acquisitations. RARE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this very early book by American photography legend Ansel Adams from 1962 (!) - with ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Showing the best pictures by the artist from the "Parklands of America". From the foreword of the book by David Brower, Executive Director of Sierra Club: "It is Ansel Adams's gift to help us see. It is part of his genius also, because he is impatient with specibus things, to help us comprehend. Such a combination is always useful and we welcome the opportunity to put it in print, drawing heavily on Adams's earlier book, My Camera in the National Parks. We here include several areas which are not now national parks of monuments and which, though they deserve that status, may never achieve it. They are nevertheless parklands, fully warranting the special treatment the nation wishes to see accorded the great parks. But people do not always know what treatment is needed, perhaps because such widely divergent meanings masquerade under the word park. Vast areas are paved to park automobiles; there are industrial parks, amusement parks, atomic parks, and parkways with three lanes of cars per lane of trees. Park and recreation are frequently used together but the important difference is not always remembered—all parks are good for recreation but all recreation is not good for parks.... We know that America's scenic resources which we explore and enjoy today were seldom saved through accident. Men fought for them and will need to as long as any remain.... I think that those of us who use and enjoy the primeval places, then go home and join one or more of the conservation organizations—even though we do not particularly like to join things—do so because we know we owe a debt to the past, to those who paid with their own sacrifices for our wilderness. Perhaps we can repay it by considering that each pleasant day in mountains is charged against us and that our account is credited for each day on which we extend our vision and act for posterity —for the unnumbered who will have to be less prodigal than we and who are entitled to explore and enjoy mountains as pleasant as ours. One of the great conservationists, Aldo Leopold, helped us reach this conclusion: "Our children are our signature to the roster of history," he said in Round River. "I hope to leave them good health, an education, and possibly even a competence. But what are they going to do with these things if there is no more deer in the hills, and no more quail in the coverts? No more snipe whistling in the meadow, no more piping of widgeons and chattering of teal as darkness covers the marshes; no more whistling of swift wings when the morning star pales in the east? Ane when the dawn wind stirs through the ancient cottonwoods, and the gray light steals down from the hills over the old river sliding softly past its wide brown sandbars-what if there be no more goose music?" Ansel Adams, another great conservationist, has not photographed the particular music Leopold wrote about, but if you look carefully enough through these pages really to see the places Adams saw, you will know that those places must be kept alive. They will be if you care enough. And as long as they live the music will live too." 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% protection, 100% insurance and combined shipping worldwide. Copyright 1962 by the Sierra Club Derived in large part from My Camera in the National Parks, by Ansel Adams, published by Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park, and Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950, copyright by Ansel Adams. The earlier version was designed by Jo Sinel, was spiral bound, of slightly larger trim size, and contained twelve fewer plates; travel and photographic data have been omitted here and the text has been rewritten. The Sierra Club, founded in 1892 by John Muir, has devoted itself to the study and protection of national scenic resources, particularly those of mountain regions. All Sierra Club publications are part of the nonprofit publishing effort the club carries on as a public trust. Participation is invited in the program to enjoy and preserve wilderness, wildlife, forests, and streams. Address: Mills Tower, San Francisco 4. Sierra Club, San Francisco. 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 265 x 350 mm. 104 pages. 117 photos. Photos: Ansel Adams. Binding is by Sendor Bindery, New York City. Design by David Brower. All engravings are by Walter J. Mann Company and presswork is by H. S. Crocker Company, Inc., San Francisco. Paper is Mead Black & White letterpress enamel. Binding is by Sendor Bindery, New York City. Foreword: David Brower. Preface: Ansel Adams. Text in English. Condition: Book inside clean with no foxing, private dedication on first blank page, no other previous owner marks; the pages have a musty smell, otherwise normal trace of use with no remarkable defects. Book outside fresh and flawless (protected by the jacket). Dustjacket with stronger trace of use (see pictures), but still impressive; front flap price-clipped, rear flap complete. Overall very good condition. Great book by Ansel Adams from 1962 (!) - with original dustjacket. A must-have for every collector, fan and admirer of the artist or fan of great photography in general. "Ansel (Easton) Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing. Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. Adams was a key advisor in the founding and establishment of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona." (Wikipedia)