MORRIS, James. Coast to Coast. London: Faber. [1956].
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clupped); pp. 271, plates after photographs; light wear to wrappers, a little offsetting from and spotting to endpapers; otherwise a very good copy.
First edition of the author's first book, a reconnaissance tour through all 48 states of the USA, observing the country during the prosperous years of the Cold War and the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. In the acknowledgements James Morris thanks Ansel Adams for 'help and advice about the pictures' (p. 9).
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