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Auction archive: Lot number 332

EVANS, Walker (1903–1975), photographer. –– AGEE, James (19...

Reserve
US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 332

EVANS, Walker (1903–1975), photographer. –– AGEE, James (19...

Reserve
US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

EVANS, Walker (1903–1975), photographer. –– AGEE, James (1909–1955). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. 8vo. 31 illustrations after black and white photographs after Walker Evans Original publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in silver foil (tiny puncture to upper joint); original unclipped dust jacket (spine panel sunned, light edge wear). FIRST EDITION, an important work of southern American literature. Agee collaborated to craft a fictionalized account of three families by incorporating Evans’ powerful images that focused on impoverished sharecropping families in desolate areas around Alabama. REVIEW COPY with publisher’s slip laid in.

Auction archive: Lot number 332
Auction:
Datum:
26 Feb 2022
Auction house:
Potter & Potter Auctions
3759 N. Ravenswood Ave.
Suite 121
Chicago, IL 60613
United States
info@potterauctions.com
+1 (0)773 472 1442
+1 (0)773 260 1462
Beschreibung:

EVANS, Walker (1903–1975), photographer. –– AGEE, James (1909–1955). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. 8vo. 31 illustrations after black and white photographs after Walker Evans Original publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in silver foil (tiny puncture to upper joint); original unclipped dust jacket (spine panel sunned, light edge wear). FIRST EDITION, an important work of southern American literature. Agee collaborated to craft a fictionalized account of three families by incorporating Evans’ powerful images that focused on impoverished sharecropping families in desolate areas around Alabama. REVIEW COPY with publisher’s slip laid in.

Auction archive: Lot number 332
Auction:
Datum:
26 Feb 2022
Auction house:
Potter & Potter Auctions
3759 N. Ravenswood Ave.
Suite 121
Chicago, IL 60613
United States
info@potterauctions.com
+1 (0)773 472 1442
+1 (0)773 260 1462
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