Olson sigurd e essay (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition, 4th Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/very small book dealer sticker label to back cover verso. White linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG w/rubs to corner tips & price clipped. Vintage 1975, America's Bicentennial Year, First Edition, 4th Printing. A photographic tribute to the grandeur of unspoilt lands -- from deserts to tundra, canyons to lakes, preserved in our National Parks System. Stunning full-page b/w & color plates from the keen sight & lens of Japanese photographer Yoshikazu Shirakawa (1935 - 2022), hailed for his 1971 book "Himalayas", issued w/prefaces by Arnold Toynbee and Sir Edmund Hillary. 227 pgs, arranged in 4 parts: Part 1, Dawn; 2, Noontide; 3, Eventide; and 4, Earth's Diurnal Course, followed by appendices on Nat'l Parks (Sigurd F. Olson), The Photographer (Shigene Kanarmaur, Shirakawa's teacher), Afterword (notes from Shirakawa himself), concluding with a superb fold-out map of the National Parks & National Monuments here memorialized to rear. Yoahikazu Shirakawa (Author-Photographer) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE w/trace edge wear, and, discoloration to upper front & spine of dustjacket. Stated First Edition. Fold-out map (also BRAND NEW) w/Nat'l Parks and location of photography. Japanese photographer Yoshikazu Shirakawa (1935 -), hailed for his book Himalayas (1971), captures the vastness and grandeur of the American continent on film --- a photo portrait time in celebration of America's Bicentennial year, and above all, a tribute to Nature. Presented in 4 parts: 1, Dawn; 2, Noontide; 3, Eventide; and 4, Earth's Diurnal Course. Followed by appendices on Nat'l Parks (Sigurd F. Olson), The Photographer (Shigene Kanarmaur, Shirakawa teacher), Afterword (notes from Shirakawa), and Notes on Photography and fold-out map. Yoahikazu Shirakawa (Author-Photographer) (illustratore). …