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POUCHER**, W[alter]. A: : WALES

LONDON.CONSTABLE,1981.

ISBN 0094643105.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.Owner's neat black ink name to top ffe and price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,crisp,glossy laminated,wrap-around scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears - though some miniscule bumping and rubbing with reciprocal loss to lower edge's bottom upper board's corner and to the foot of spine/backstrip also.Minimal sunning/ fading to spine/backstrip - as usual/ normal.Top+fore-edges generally clean, contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright, clean,unblemished,publisher's original green cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw.dj,1st edn,11-203pp [paginated+2 scenic,colour,double-pages to rear unpaginated] includes half-title,double- page colour scenic photographic illustrated title page/frntis [Yr Aran from Llyn Gwynant],photographs list, author preface,47 full-page double-page, colour scenic photographs many single-page,full-page colour,scenic photographs, and remainder 3/4,double-page colour scenic photographs and text. Walter Poucher has been climbing and photographing mountains for nearly half a century, and is Britain's most famous and prolific mountain photographer, with some thirty books and many thousands of pictures in book form to his credit.He has photographed most of the peaks in Britain and Ireland,and has worked extensively in the Dolomites, The Alps and the Rockies, both American and Canadian.Wales has been a haunt of his for the past forty years, and this book - only his second in colour (then 1981) - is a companion volume to the best-selling Scotland which was published in 1980. The green valleys and sandy beaches of Wales have drawn holiday-makers for decades, but its wild and remote mountain fastness are still largely the preserve of the rock climber.Poucher's superb photographs evoke for the earth-bound the icy mountain air,the silent loneliness of a high ridge-track,the dizzy swoop of rock slabs falling sheer to the valley,the immensity of a mountain panorama stretching past the encircling hills to glimmering seas beyond. 'Wales' contains 100 of Poucher's loveliest photographs of that most photogenic land - its valleys,lakes and tumbling streams,as well as the grandeur of its peaks.Pictures and captions are arranged in sequence so that a visitor travelling by car can follow them from south to north.The author also indicates those routes which can be easily walked, and those which need rock-climbing skills. One of the first titles in this series (then 1981] of large-format books/titles published by Constable,by this author, each containing 100 colour photographs with accompanying text.See also rja1302 [LAKELAND PANORAMA.],and rja25207 [THE WEST COUNTRY.] for either other titles in this series or other author/subject related titles/books. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.