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Hard back binding in publisher's original Farrows cream cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 4to. 13'' x 9¼''. Contains 1 pp, 3 pp introduction followed by 28 splendid full-page single-sided duo-tone landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where renown Swiss photographer Albert Steiner lived and worked for 46 years. Special presentation copy presented by St. Moritz on the occasion of the International Alpine Trial 1932 with additional presentation leaf in German, French, English and Italian dated July 1932 to this effect. Small repair to the centre of the lower spine edge, very minor spotting to the end papers, plates in fresh clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SWITZERLAND (Culture).

Hardcover. Condizione: g to vg. First edition. Folio (13 x 9 1/2"). [8]pp (Text), 28 leaves (Photographs). Original tan cloth, with embossed lettering on gilt to front cover and spine. Splendid collection of 28 landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where renown Swiss photographer Albert Steiner* lived and worked for 46 years. The photographs are reproduced in striking duo-tone photogravures, thus highlighting the reliefs and contrasts of this beautiful Alpine valley region of Switzerland. Tiny abrasion and moderate bumping to spine (not affecting pages throughout). Pages slightly and evenly age-toned. Text in German. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition. * Albert Steiner (1877-1965) is one of Switzerland's outstanding 20th century photographers. "His landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where he lived and worked for 46 years, are unique on an international as well as a national level. They have had a major influence on an awareness of Switzerland as an unspoiled alpine country of surpassing beauty. Inspired by painters such as Giovanni Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler, Steiner took pictures that reveal a profound respect for and love of nature, as well as a tireless search for timeless beauty and metaphysical truth. His meticulously structured, light-saturated compositions are expressive witnesses of his experience of human insignificance in the face of the greatness and sublimity of the mountain world." (For more information, see: Albert Steiner. Das fotografische Werk. Edited by Peter Pfrunder and Beat Stutzer, with contributions by Anne Hammond, René Perret, Peter Pfrunder, Beat Stutzer and Hans Peter Treichler. Benteli Verlag, Bern.).