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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Black cloth over boards w/ tan & black printed title plate to spine. 198 pp. 87 bw plates. This is the 1938 edition printed for Trustees and Members of the Musuem. Front endpaper has ex-libris signature of Rene d'Harnoncourt, long-time influential director of The Museum Of Modern Art. Front endpaper also has large pencil squibble with back endpaper having previous bookstore pencil notations. Includes an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Good (scuffs, scratches & rubbed edge-wear to boards. front board has scattered, glued paper fragments w/ staining; paper remnant to back board. lower board edge has chip/worn to board; frying to some edges. corners rubbed. spine ends rubbed & frayed. textblock edges tanned & foxed. spine plate tanned.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
. Walker Evans American Photographs. Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1938.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Square black cloth hardcover in white 3.95 dust jacket, gold lettering on spine, 196 pages, 87 plates. No additional printings indicated. This gem of a book contains photographs that will move your soul. DJ is ripped in places but the cover is in good shape. The pages are clean, the binding is a tad loose. Previous owner's name written on inside cover.
Seller: Kent Memorial Library, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker and Lincoln Kirstein. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, [New York], 1938.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spin; white DJ with b&w photo and black lettering; 198 pp.; richly illustrated. This is the First Reprint of the 1938 edition. Good (Boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges are lightly smudged/scuffed and moderately foxed at the top; interior is clean; binding is solid.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: no edition or printing stated only copyright date 1938 - however the jacket front flap states this is a reissue, which was 1962 though not stated, very light/faint dusting/soiling to edges of text block - spine not quite square, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows edge wear, soiling, and darkening to spine and folds to flaps - 11/4" tear to top left edge of front panel at fold to spine - 3/8" tear to top right edge of rear panel - 1/8" tear to top and 1/8" tear to bottom of fold rear panel to spine - original price intact, $7.50, 87 black & white plates reproduced full page, essay by Lincoln Kirstein
Seller: H.S. Bailey, Fort Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint (1938.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 196 pages and 87 plates. The book is in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in fair condition with some shelf wear and rubbing to edge, toning and slight staining to DJ closed tear to top left cover 1/2", $7.50 price on front flap of DJ. Lacking errata slip. "Photos of Americana and the human situations for which Walker is so well known. published for the first exhibition of Evans' photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. One of America's most renowned Photographers." Tan spine/ Black text. #032621 Size: 8vo
Seller: JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO., SANTA MONICA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$203.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962 second edition, blind stamp on first page, minor underlining Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
EVANS, WALKER. American Photographs. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938, 1938.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ".holds a well-deserved place at the top of the pantheon, and should be studied assiduously by any photographer attempting the tricky business of compiling a coherent photobook." (Parr, Photobook I p. 114) First edition. 8vo; 198 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Bookplate; rebacked; rubbing to spine label; a good copy in original black cloth with errata slip tipped-in. Lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An edition of 5000 copies stated. Square quarto, 198pp, errata slip tipped-in at copyright page, publishers black cloth, paper label at top of spine (extremities worn through, label toned, white speckles along top of rear panel, a couple smudges within rear endpapers, else a very good copy).
Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in black boards with paper title label on spine in protective plastic overwrap; 198 pages, good condition, light foxing to top outer page edges and extreme top edge of about half the pages; partially removed bookplate on inside front cover; no other marks. Missing the errata slip. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: photos, 198p, Original black cloth. dj. 23 cm. Fragile jacket which has a jagged vertical split on front panel, as well as general browning and several chips. Small spot on front cover. Modest foxing on first and last few leaves; contents otherwise sound and clean. Includes an essay by Lincoln Kirstein at pages 189-198.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Square black cloth hardcover in white 3.95 dust jacket, gold lettering on spine, 196 pages, 87 plates. No additional printings indicated, but list of books on back of dust jacket indicates a later printing. Book as new. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn, a little soiled from rubbing against other books, spine and edges of flaps tanned from sunlight. A very nice copy. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.
Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. Original black cloth. From the library of photographer and filmmaker Sedat Pakay, whose work can be found in New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Museum, without any indication to that effect. Three rear leaves stuck together and stained and seven other rear leaves with staining, otherwise covers and internals nice, Fair, in Good Dust Jacket with chips at the head and foot of the spine and small tears at the outer corners. A flawed but affordable copy of a monumental work in the history of photography from the library of a notable photographer who knew Evans.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Black cloth, paper spine label (slightly darkened). Lacks errata slip. A very good copy. 87 relief halftone reproductions of photographs, without captions, as the work was designed to be "read" visually in sequence. One of 5000 copies printed by The Spiral Press. Ref. Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, 116.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1st Edition Copy. Wear on cover and spine. Please get in touch for more images.
Seller: MPF RARE BOOKS, Bristol, BRIST, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black cloth, paper spine label; dust jacket; square 8vo; pp. 200, with 87 b/w photo-illustrated plates, bound-in errata slip. Spine tips and corners just a little frayed; a little faint soiling on paper spine label; otherwise a nice, tight, internally clean copy of the book. Dust jacket chipped and torn at head of spine and along edges of front panel (affecting a portion of the lettering).
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, black cloth, 198pp, with original dust jacket. First edition, first printing, with limitation page at end of book, errata slip bound in. Book with owner inscription (State College, 1938) to front endpaper, glue residue from removed bookplate to front pastedown, also with wear to lower portion of front cover, minor toning to pages. Dust jacket toned, with a bit of chipping to corners and spine ends, more significant chipping to lower portion of front panel.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in dust jacket (in mylar protector, jacket removed from protector for purposes of photographs). 8vo (8.75 x 8"), black cloth, paper title label at spine. 189 pp., [4], 87 b&w plates. CONDITION: Very good in good dj with some losses, breaks and tears to jacket, as pictured. First edition. "One of five thousand copies, of which 1315 copies were reserved for members of the Museum." A classic of American photographic literature, this catalogue records the first solo photography show ever mounted by a museum.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 198 pages. Light soiling to jacket chipped at extremities; cloth rubbed at heel of spine. Top edge a touch dusty; interior clean and free of inscriptions. Errata slip tipped in; limitation page present at rear. One of 5000 copies printed. A presentable example of the first edition; jacket now housed in a removable archival sleeve.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Illustrated with 87 single-sided black & white plates. Slim square 8vo, textured black cloth with paper spine label; (toned). [New York]: Museum of Modern Art, (1938). First Edition. With September, 1938 on the copyright page, and the limitation leaf at the end. Ownership signature of Tiffany window designer Gene Moore. An excellent, copy, internally flawless. The spine is slightly frayed at the top edge, and the corners are rubbed. Although 5000 copies were printed, this first edition is a landmark book, and fairly uncommon.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker; Kirstein, Lincoln. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($2.50 price intact). Published by The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. Quarto. Black cloth boards with paper spine label. Book is very good; clean with no ownership markings. Binding tight and pages crisp. Some wear to corners and a few light spots to endpapers/page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edge wear. Several tears along edges/corners. Three-inch tear front top left corner is largest. Scarce first printing (only 5,000 copies) of this landmark book of modern American photography. 200 pages, 87 plates. Book has been placed in a custom acetate protector. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Walker Evans; Lincoln Kirstein. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [One of the most influential photo books of the 20th century] First edition, First printing, one of 5,000 copies printed. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Printed spine label. Includes facsimile dust jacket, in mylar. Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 195 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm. Includes errata slip.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Jacket is worn and chipped along edges, with some tears between jacket flaps and jacket covers. Large chipped section from top edge of jacket spine, covering part of author's name but not the rest of the text. Spine is tanned, but text is legible. Cover corners are lightly worn. Spine is worn along edges and cracked, but binding is secure. Pages are lightly tanned long edges, but photographs are bright and unmarked. Errata is present.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original black cloth with printed paper label on spine is beautiful, dust jacket has some light soiling and is darkened at the spine and the extremities. Considered one of the high spots of twentieth century American photographic literature. This book was published in connection with the first exhibition dedicated to the work of one individual photographer to be held at the Museum of Modern Art. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
EVANS, Walker.. Walker Evans. American Photographs.. New York Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition; 4to (22.2 x 19 cm); scattered light foxing affecting two illustrations, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, head of spine slightly frayed, with original dust-jacket, some wear and soiling to jacket, lacking errata slip and original belly band, otherwise a very good copy; 195pp. First edition of Walker Evans American Photographs in the original dust-jacket. This ground-breaking monograph was published for the first exhibition of Evans' photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It still remains one of the most important photographic books of the 20th century. This edition includes an essay by Lincoln Kirstein, an American writer and cultural figure active in New York City in the 1930s, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. (9 x 8 in, 22.5 x 20.3 cm) 196 pp. First edition. Original black cloth with printed paper label on spine and tipped in errata slip (fine and fresh with minor cloth wear at bottom of rear board and hint of spotting to label); original printed dust jacket (two vertical creases to upper, a similar faint crease to lower; spine darkened with two losses, a 10x15mm crown chip and an archivally repaired split; tiny chips at top edge; closed tears and associated creasing at folds and edges; 20mm dog-legged tear at upper fore-corner archivally mended; overall delicate and a bit loose fitting); original printed yellow bellyband quoting MacLeish and Seldes (numerous creases and wrinkles to upper panel, crease on lower panel, mildly soiled, loss at heel extends to upper panel, front flap perished). Containing 87 photographs, this first edition of Walker Evans's masterpiece "holds a well-deserved place at the top of the pantheon." Parr / Badger, "The Photobook" Vol. I, pp. 114-15). Additional reference: ["The Book of 101 Books", pp. 98-9; "The Open Book", pp. 128-9]. Despite numerous jacket faults, this copy presents quite nicely, is near complete, and scarce thus. Inquiries welcomed.
Seller: William Gregory, Books & Photographs, Kenosha, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Published in September 1938. Errata slip present. Lacks belly band. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Faint offsetting at upper portion of front panel, extending to spine. A few short edge nicks and hint of chipping to jacket. Top edge lightly foxed. ) 87 images. 5000 copies printed. A photographic high spot that has become increasingly difficult to locate in jacket. ; 8" x 9"; 198 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3327.50 + shipping
Description: First edition; 4to (222 x 199 mm, 8¾ x 7¾ in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone by The Spiral Press, New York from plates made by Beck Engraving Company; cream endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, border in blind, printed title-label mounted on spine, minor scratch, printed dust-jacket, grey with text in black, minor toning and small chip to spine, light marking to edges, errata slip tipped on to copyright page, without the band, fine in a near-fine dust-jacket; [ii], 198, [8]pp. In 1938, the Museum of Modern Art staged an exhibition of Evans' photographs, the first exhibition at the museum to be devoted to the work of a single photographer. Evans worked closely with Lincoln Kirstein on the edit and sequence of the photographs, both for the exhibition and in the accompanying book American Photographs, for which Kirstein also provided the essay. Kirstein writes, 'In Evans's pictures of temples or shelters the presence or absence of the people who created them is the most important thing The structures are social rather than artistic monuments. The photographs are social documents!' Evans and Kirstein divided the book into two thoughtfully sequenced sections. The first shows American citizens, or their representations, alone, in groups, and often within the context of their built environments. The second shows these environments and comprises the 'streets and storefronts, homes and graveyards, industrial plants and roadside stands [that] are frozen in time, many of them in a permanent state of decay.' Regards à travers Le Livre 69; The Book of 101 Books pp98-9; The Open Book pp128-9; The Photobook: A History I, pp.114-5
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 198p quarto, illustrated. A very find copy in like dust jacket. 5000 copies printed for the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art. American Photographs immediately established Evans as a major artist. At thetime this exhibition was the first one man show devoted to a photographer's work at the Museum. "American Photographs revealed the terrible gulf between what Americans tell themselves they are and what they know they are, and at the sam time opened a fissure within photography between 'artistic' and documentary practice. When Ansel Adams (who was born the same year as Evans, 1903) saw American Photographs, he wrote to Edward Weston, complaining that "'Walker Evans's book gives me a hernia. I am so goddamn mad over what people from the left tier think America is;" Roth The Book of 101 Books pp 98-99 A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket. Tiny mark on th bottom edge.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Square 8vo, illustrated, black cloth with printed spine label, dust jacket. An exceptionally fine copy in dust jacket. An exceptionally fine copy in dust jacket First edition. One of 5000 copies printed. American Photographs immediately established Evans as a major artist. At the time, this exhibition was the first one man show devoted to a photographer's work at the Museum of Modern Art. "American Photographs revealed the terrible gulf between what Americans tell themselves they are and what they know they are, and at the same time opened a fissure within photography between 'artistic' and documentary practice." Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 98-99.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Walker Evans and inscribed to photographer and collector Arnold Crane. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with white paper spine label with titles printed in black. Endsheets marred by removal of tape, else Fine. In a Near Fine or better dust jacket with light wear and light toning but a much nicer example than normally found, with yellow belly band lightly sunned at the spine. A sterling example, quite scarce in such beautiful condition and even more so signed. Based on the landmark Museum of Modern Art Exhibition of Evans' work.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.