Hyde, Philip. Drylands: The Deserts of North America by Philip Hyde.

Park Lane, 1987, 1990. Text and photographs in color by Philip Hyde. Reprint.  Originally published at $75. Hardcover, fine with fine protected dust jacket, like new.  Chapters on The Painted Desert, The Great Basin Desert, The Mojave Desert, The Sonoran Desert, and The Chihuahuan Desert, with other related texts. 179 pages. Approximately 13 x 15 inches. Photocopy of obituary of Philip Hyde from the New York Times laid in. Known as a “conservation photographer,” Hyde died at age 84 in 2006.  He was the primary photographer for the Sierra Club and helped prevent two dams being built in the Grand Canyon.  He published 15 books and contributed to 70 others. Hyde studied photography at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute, under Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and others who taught there. Most of the landscape photographs in this book were taken in Nevada, California, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico with Hyde’s favorite field camera, a Deardorff 4x5, on Ektachrome film.