Seneca Ray Stoddard: Versatile Camera-Artist by Stoddard, Seneca Ray; Maitland C. De Sormo - 1972

Adirondack Yesteryears, 1972. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition. Near Fine with two bumped tips, light wear to crown and heel, light soil to bottom of the text block and a trace of foxing to the back cover in a Good price-clipped dust jacket with moderate soiling, a couple of closed tears and chips, tape stain to the verso at one point and a 2 inch strip of tape to the verso and outside at another point. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The biography of a truly remarkable and many-talented man. Seneca Ray Stoddard was widely acclaimed during his career as a photographer in the same league as Matthew Brady and William H. Jackson. He also earned nearly equal fame as a guidebook-writer and mapmaker and was known to a lesser degree as an outstanding artist, author, inventor, editor and publisher, wide-ranging traveler and lecturer. Includes examples of his photographs from the Adirondacks (hunters, campers, scenics) as well as Native Americans from the Pacific coast, the plains and the southwest and scenes from Maine. Photographs by Seneca Ray Stoddard; text by Maitland C. De Sormo. SIGNED BY DE SORMO AND inscribed: "To Max Wylie with the / warmest good wishes of / Mait De Sormo / Saranac Lake, NY 8/21/74". 190 pages; b&w photographic plates, maps and text illustrations through out; 7.5 x 10.5 inches.