Ansel Adams, Author, Mary Street Alinder, Author, Adams Publishing Rights Trust Ansel, Author Ansel Adams $65 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8212-1596-8
An accomplished musician, ardent conservationist, master photographer and teacher, Ansel Adams (19021984) made a major cultural contribution to the American nation, which awarded him the Medal of Freedom. This life story describes his boyhood...
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Ansel Adams, Author, Ansel Adams, Photographer, John Armor, With Crown Publishers $27.5 (167p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1727-7
Hersey calls it ``the bitterest shame of the Second World War for the sweet land of liberty'': the mass incarceration, on racial grounds and false evidence of military necessity, of an entire class of American citizens. Adams, then already an...
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Ansel Adams, Author, Harold Adams, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-250-1
Adams's sixth mystery is expertly plotted, set with its predecessors in the small town of Corden, S.D., during the 1930s. Rugged ex-convict and amateur investigator Carl Wilcox finds widower Arthur Foote hanging from a barbed-wire noose. Living at...
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Ansel Adams, Author, Harold Adams, Author Mysterious Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-252-5
Wry wit, intriguing characters and skillfully spare writing add up to another winner for Adams, in his eighth Depression-era mystery. Carl Wilcox, reformed drunk and leading misfit of Corden, S.D., and his teenage nephew, Hank, are left in charge of
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Ansel Adams, Author, Harold Adams, Author Mysterious Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-251-8
While driving along a South Dakota country road, Carl Wilcox (Barbed Wire Noose) comes upon an auto accident with three dead and two survivors, one of them a little girl. He takes the child, Alma, to the nearest town, and finds that one of the...
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James Alinder, Author, Ansel Adams, Author, Ansel Adams, Photographer Ansel Adams $45 (111p) ISBN 978-0-8212-1629-3
These classic photographs were selected by the late Ansel Adams himself to be permanently representative of his work. Included are familiar scenic compositions like Moonrise, Hernandez and Half Dome, Yosemite, but there are also portraiture and...
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John Szarkowski, Author, Ansel Adams, Author Ansel Adams $150 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8212-2515-8
Grandly proportioned, linen-bound and graceful as the images it conveys, Ansel Adams at 100 commemorates the birth of the famous native San Franciscan photographer with 114 of Adams's rich, beloved images spanning his oeuvre, and some delightful...
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