Ansel Adams
The Print Contacting Printing and Enlarging
Basic Photo 3
SIGNED by Ansel Adams
Fourth Printing
New York: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1950. Basic Photo 3. Fourth printing. 1957. Hardcover. With the dust jacket. SIGNED by Ansel Adams on the first free endpaper. Octavo, gray cloth titled in dark blue. 123 pages. B&W illustrations. 44 b&w photos and illustrations. 6 x 9.25 inches. The Print covers the entire printmaking process, from designing and furnishing a darkroom and experimenting with your first print, to mastering advanced techniques such as developer modifications, toning, and bleaching, and burning and dodging. It is an indispensable tool for mastering the complex art of photographic printmaking. Good in a good dust jacket.
The boards show light wear. Moderate wear to the edges and to the head and heel of the spine. Right angle crease to the lower right hand corner front board. Internally, moderate foxing to pastedowns, endpapers, and title page. Prior owner name on front pastedown. Binding tight. Hinges sound. Text and illustrations clean. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ moderate wear and several tears to edges and to the top and bottom of the spine as a few creases. Corners and edges scuffed and rubbed. Scratches and scuff marks visible in the light. Scattered light foxing to the underside of the dust jacket visible if the jacket is taken off of the book. Scattered light foxing to the DJ flaps. Not price clipped.
SIGNED Ansel Adams.