First edition of Images 1923 - 1974 by Ansel Adams (1974)

First impression 

Large format hardback (44cm x 36cm) in near fine condition 

Signed by Ansel Adams to a dedicated page right before the title one 

Some age-appropriate toning and wear to extremities of dust jacket

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean

Binding firm, particularly notable given the large format and scale of the volume

Please note the book comes with a slipcase in fair condition. Slipcase is quite damaged

About

 Images 1923-1974 is his "first very-large-format book In full control, Ansel produced his ideal book, comprising his personal choice of pictures, state-of-the-art reproduction, graceful words and elegant design. He selected the 115 photographs that he believed best represented the range of his vision, choosing (as he always did when it was up to him) a wide spectrum of portraits, details, abstracts and occasional quirky subjects, as well as a smattering of his grand landscapes Images was both a great aesthetic and a commercial success, elected as one of the 50 Books of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and awarded first prize at the World Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany" (Alinder, 266, 307, 388). To Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Wallace Stegner, who authored the introduction, Adams’ "mind and vision, his reverence, his delicacy and strength, will have the power to move and enhance and enlarge us as long as walls exist for photographs" (Miraculous Instants, 51-2). Adams "elevated the act of photography to a religious experience" (Stepan, 96).