BOOK Time Exposure: The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson

New York, (1940): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 341pp., Jackson was an explorer, writer, photographer and painter who recorded the American frontier life for the government and whose pictures of the Yellowstone area were important factor in establishment of the national park there. Jackson was the first to record the frontier life and scenery of the Western United States for geological surveys and for stereopticon machines. He wrote this autobiography when he was 98 years old. He died in New York at 99. A very good hardcover copy bound in light blue cloth lettered in white and black, spine lettering in black and white, some fading and darkening of the spine, nice early news clippings tipped in to front and rear pastedowns. (Time exposure. Some foxing binding repaired includes illustrations.)