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EVANS, Walker. Many Are Called . Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press, 1966. 4° (217 x 177 mm). Errata slip. 89 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (jacket lightly rubbed at the edges). Provenance : Walker Evans (presentation inscription to:) -- Diana Edkins. [ With :] -- Autograph letter signed, 1 page, 4to, black ink on wove paper (letterhead trimmed). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EVANS to curator and editor Diana Edkins: 'Diana Edkins with pleasure Walker Evans Jan. 3, 1971'. With, laid-in, an autograph letter signed ('Walker' and 'W') to a close associate, possibly Lovell Thompson, concerning the exhibition of this series: 'I am also of course gathering the subway pictures for you. I consider bringing them to you by hand, since they are to be in the museum exhibition later and are thus quite valuable originals. Either here in New York or in Boston -- my hands into yours. Soon. They are all in the museum, ready, now'. Thompson, whose name is recorded in another hand on the letter, was a long-time editor at Houghton Mifflin, and worked with Evans on a number of his books; to Evans he was 'Loveable Thompson' (Rathbone, Walker Evans , p.267). An excellent copy of Evans's remarkable series of anonymous portraits. 101 Books , pp.180-81; Auer, p.456; The Open Book , pp.218-19; The Photobook , vol. I, p.253; Regards à travers le livre 136. (2)