adams, ansel.  Ansel Adams, Images 1923-1974

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974.  Oblong folio, black cloth, photo-pictorial dust jacket, slipcase.  Book fine; light toning to spine of dust jacket, generally a bright copy.  Provenance: From the collection of Lawrence L. Champagne, a student at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California where he studied under Adams, Weston, White, and Huene, among others, from 1945 through 1947.

First trade edition, signed and inscribed by Ansel Adams, "To my former student ....".  A beautiful copy of this extraordinary volume by one of the 20th century's greatest photographers.  $1100.