black cloth, x, 177 pages : illustrations, very minor pulls to fore-edge of d,j at rear Forty of Ansel Adams's black and white photographs are accompanied by his commentary upon taking them.CONTENTS: Monolith, the face of Half Dome -- Alfred Stieglitz, an American place -- Frozen lake and cliffs -- Base of upper Yosemite Fall -- The Golden Gate before the bridge -- Surf sequence -- Boards and thistles -- Rose and driftwood -- Carolyn Anspacher -- Moonrise -- El Capitan, winter sunrise -- Lodgepole pines -- Early morning, Merced River, autumn -- Sand dunes, sunrise -- Aspens -- Mount Williamson -- Martha Porter -- Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake -- Tenaya Creek, dogwood, rain -- Buddhist grave markers and rainbow -- Rock and surf -- Saint Francis Church, Ranchos de Taos -- Farm family -- Silverton -- Clearing winter storn -- Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac -- Still life -- Jacques Henri Lartigue -- Nevada Fall -- The black sun -- White house ruin -- Moon and Half Dome -- Church and road -- Merced River, cliffs, autumn -- Edward Weston -- Sand dune -- Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox -- Old water tower -- Winter sunrise -- Graffiti, abandoned military installtion -- Glossary.