EVANS, Walker, photographer (1903–1975). –– AGEE, James (1909–1955). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. 8vo. 31 black and white photograph reproductions after Walker Evans Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; original unclipped dust jacket (front panel detached, spine panel sunned with minor chipping near head, some light rubbing or chipping along front fore edge). FIRST EDITION of this important work of southern American literature. Agee and Evans 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.
EVANS, Walker, photographer (1903–1975). –– AGEE, James (1909–1955). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. 8vo. 31 black and white photograph reproductions after Walker Evans Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; original unclipped dust jacket (front panel detached, spine panel sunned with minor chipping near head, some light rubbing or chipping along front fore edge). FIRST EDITION of this important work of southern American literature. Agee and Evans 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.
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