Western Horizon

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. 144 pages, colour illustrations, col. maps; 25 x 35 cm. ASSOCIATION/PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by Edmund Morris and dedicated to the photographer, Macduff Everton/half-title page. Near-fine copy, with light edgewear to boards and dust jacket, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "'Macduff Everton updates travel photography in the same way that Ansel Adams updated 19th-century photography of the West. He captures strange and eloquent moments in which time, and the world, seem to stand still.' - Andy Grundberg, New York Times. Only a handful of photographers have succeeded in capturing the majestic landscapes of the American West. Now, Macduff Everton takes his place among them, with magnificent panoramic photographs that deserve to be viewed alongside those of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter. Everton's lush, romantic pictures - each a cinematic tour-de-force of light and color - present breathtaking views of the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mount St. Helens, the Missouri Breaks, Big Sur, the Painted Desert, and other fabled vistas of the American West. With lyrical commentaries and sketches by artist and writer Mary Heebner, and an introduction on the Western landscape's importance to American history and lore by best-selling author Edmund Morris, this glorious book is Everton's masterwork. / MACDUFF EVERTON is one of the world's most distinguished and prolific travel photographers. His work is widely exhibited and collected by museums around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Mary Heebner. MARY HEEBNER is a writer and artist whose mixed-media collages, works on paper, and limited edition artist's books have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad. EDMUND MORRIS is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, best-selling author, and an astute historian and commentator on the United States, his adopted country." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.