Title: Let us now Praise Famous Men Author: Agee, James Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date: 1941 Description: Illustrated with 31 reproductions of photographs by Walker Evans 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver, pictorial jacket. First Edition, first printing. Important and subtle Depression-era collaboration. "In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans went to Alabama to portray in words and photographs the daily life of three typical tenant families...they have put their experiences into a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and the effect of this life on two sensitive observers..." from jacket. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket spine sunned, a 1¾x2¼" chip to bottom front panel corner (affecting last names of Agee & Evans), other small chips and tears; shelf wear, faint stains to cloth; generally very good, jacket fair to good. Scarce in jacket. Item number: 186835
Title: Let us now Praise Famous Men Author: Agee, James Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date: 1941 Description: Illustrated with 31 reproductions of photographs by Walker Evans 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver, pictorial jacket. First Edition, first printing. Important and subtle Depression-era collaboration. "In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans went to Alabama to portray in words and photographs the daily life of three typical tenant families...they have put their experiences into a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and the effect of this life on two sensitive observers..." from jacket. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket spine sunned, a 1¾x2¼" chip to bottom front panel corner (affecting last names of Agee & Evans), other small chips and tears; shelf wear, faint stains to cloth; generally very good, jacket fair to good. Scarce in jacket. Item number: 186835
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