Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Austin, Mary and Adams, Ansel. The Land of Little Rain. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 133 numbered pages. Illustrated with black and white photos by Ansel Adams. Some fading to spine. Some fading and soiling to front cover with some tiny dots at the bottom. Some light soiling to back cover. Owner's name inside. Ansel Adams' name has been neatly cut out of the title page. Interior including the photos are otherwise in very good condition. (C2)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Mary Austin. The Land of Little Rain. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Photographs by Ansel Adams. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Owner book plate and minor offsetting to front free end paper else near fine in VG+ DJ.
Seller: Courtside Books, Medford, NJ, U.S.A.
Austin, Mary. THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1950.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photos by Ansel Adams, 10 x 8", cloth, 133pp, v.g. in edge frayed dw. "Readers.will find in this selection.the records of a woman who.went into the venerable desert, put her heart to the ground, heard men walking and gods breathing. She gave them pictures of the Southwest. She interpreted and celebrated the Amerindians." FIRST EDITION THUS.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
AUSTIN, Mary [Hunter]; Ansel Adams. The Land of Little Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Pp. xv, 133. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions. Introduction by Carl Van Doren, appendices including key to place names. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Yellow cloth, titles stamped in pale orange on the cover and spine, endpaper maps. Edges minimally soiled, former owner name in ink on front pastedown. In the two color photo illustrated dust jacket with price $6.00 intact on the front flap: edges moderately rubbed and crimped, closed tears to the front head edge and back flap, spine ends lightly chipped. Withal, the book presents well. Mary Hunter Austin's 1903 classic collection of essays on the Sierra-Mojave landscape and inhabitants, augmented with photos it inspired Adams to compose, with his notes. A handsome production.Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Small 4to, 132 (4)pp; yellow cloth stamped in orange. This edition contains 48 photos by Adams, along with notes on the photos and an afterword by Adams, in part paying tribute to Austin (1868-1934) who had previously written text for Adams's first book, Taos Pueblo (1930). The Land of Little Rain was originally published in 1903 and is a classic of Californiana, a Zamorano 80 title. Gift inscription to front endpaper; top edge lightly dusted; close to fine in an unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to spine, a closed tear and a surface scratch to the rear panel, a few small chips and some fraying at spine ends
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.