david bower foreword (2 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1970. Text/NEW, showing margin discoloration and w/one check mark to Contents page. Softcover/VG; sound but tired w/edge & surface wear.Vintage 1970, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Anthology of essays presented at Sierra Club Wilderness Conferences. Published half-century past in 1969. Review of both successes in environmental preservation & that which remains of concern. 366 pgs, 34 essays in 3 parts: Part I, The Problem of Wilderness Preservation; II, The Values that Wilderness Preservation Seeks to Preserve; and III, The Program & Outlook for Wilderness Preservation. The article check marked to Contents page is William E. Siri's essay "Wilderness & Man in 2065".

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Ansel Adams, et al (Photography) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/light surface wear, and faint creasingsto lower front & back lower corner tips. Vintage 1968 Edition, w/ an Introduction from David Bower dated Aug 23rd, 1959. Photographic essays documenting America's scenic landscape --- ISBN: 1199540730, included for easy identification, was subsequently assigned. Collection of some 85 b/w photos --- 44 from Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) along w/works of Eliot Porter, Philip Hyde, Edward Weston and Margaret Bourke-White, among others. Photos are accompanied by text, equally poetic, from photographic critic & conservationist editor Nancy Newhall (1908 - 1974), is meaningfully bound together by her poetic text. 111 pgs, in 6 sectors: 1, Brief Tenant; 2, New World; 3, The Machine & a New Ethic; 4, The Mathematics of Survival; 5, Dynamics; and, 6, The Crucial Resource. Fine copy.