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Price: US$17.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. viii, [28] p.: illustrations; 18 x 21 cm. White wrapper with black spine and cover titles. Based on an exhibition of photographs taken by the photographers of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. Includes excerpts from Dorothea Lange's conversations with some of the subjects. Contains 27 black-and-white photographs by Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Arthur rothstein, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, John Vachon, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled; back wrapper lightly creased; pages are clean and bright.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good or better hardcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean outside. Very clean inside, no foxing or spotting. Very faint toning of the endpapers. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Illustrated in black & white with Walker Evans' great photographs. 9" high X 8" wide, 195 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, 1962.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reissue 1962. American Photographes with an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Very Good. In Very Good- unclipped dust jacket with price of $7.50 still intact at inner front flap. Dust jacket is worn with tanning and light chipping along edges, light soiling; protected with a brodart cover. Black cloth boards with gilt stamped text at spine. Internally clean with hints of age-toning along page edges. Free of markings. Binding is tight. Otherwise still a very nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore since 1992.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
. Walker Evans: American Photographs. Double Day, Garden City, New York, 1962.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: 1962 reissue by The Museum of Modern Art, New York of original 1938 edition. Minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. The Dust Jacket has yellowed from age. Some patina along the top of the pages from long term shelving. Pages are clean and bright. *see pictures*
Seller: Reclaimed Bookstore, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, 1962.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Square 8vo in black cloth, spine title in gilt. Almost undescernable spine lean, no rubbing to the cloth, gilt bright and fresh. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, has very light general soiling, no rubbing or chips.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Kirstein, Lincoln and Walker Evans. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Description: Black boards with gilt spine lettering. White dust jacket with BW photograph and black lettering. 195 pp. BW. Reprint of the original 1938 editon. "Walker Evans' pictorial record of America in the thirties was first published in 1938 and revealed a new master of the camera who expressed the tragic sense and troubled conscience of those years. Reissued in response to many requests, it seems even more important now when period out of which it arose can be see in historical perspective." -Jacket. VG-/G, foxing to text blocks, light to moderate wear and scuffing/soiling to dust jacket, small tear at top front of dj.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, 1962.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reissue of original 1938 edition. Worn dust jacket.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker; Lincoln Kirsten. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS.. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 195 pages of text. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Minimal soiling to the endpapers. Unclipped dustjacket with a few tiny tears and creases, as well as overall slight soiling and rubbing and slight darkening of the spine; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by 87 black & white plates. Contains an essay by Lincoln Kirsten. No date of publication listed; circa 1962
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Small square quarto. Near fine in spine-toned very good dust jacket. Despite these modest flaws still a handsome copy of an important title.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition Hardcover. 196 pages. Introduction by Lincoln Kirstein. Foreword by Monroe Wheeler. One of the truly most important and influential photography books of the 20th century. Includes 87 black and white plates. A close to near fine copy in black cloth binding with some very minor foxing to the topedge in an about very good dust jacket that a number of edge tears, some soiling and some chips to the top of the rear panel. (Parr & Badger v1, 114-115, Roth 98-99).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Kirstein, Linda; Walker, Evans. Walker Evans American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing with a price of $7.50 on the flap. A very nice copy. Reprint of the scarce original edition. some waviness to the textblock which is not from liquid contact, but a natural consequence of the many photographs in the book.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Edition. Hardcover. Later edition with price of $7.50 on jacket. This MoMA monograph is a landmark book in 20th century photography. Evans (1903 - 1975) was a photojournalist best known for his work documenting the Great Depression. In very good condition in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. A few speckles to boards and minor foxing to fore-edge, else a clean copy. In an off-white illustrated dust jacket with black title to spine and front panel. The jacket has a few small chips to the edges and minor dampstaining, foxing, and toning along the edges. 195 pages. PHOTO/052311.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker.. American Photographs.. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$365.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Second Edition. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a sharp Near Fine white dustwrapper, price-clipped, with mild overall wear and a tiny nick to crown of spine panel. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein, with brief Foreword by Monroe Wheeler. 195pp. Reprints the original 1938 edition. Q03595
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker.. American Photographs.. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped, with no chips or tears. With an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. 195pp. Reprints the original edition of 1938, a landmark title in the history of photographic books. Roth 101. Q05265
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$449.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second 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. Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with a tiny scrape on the spine and some slight smudging. Nice copy of the second edition of a monumental work in the history of photography.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Walker Evans. American Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, 1962.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by Walker Evans. The dust jacket is not price clipped and intact. There is one very small closed tear on the back. Slight foxing and staining on the front and rear end papers. Pages have a very slight ripple. This is only just visible and does not affect the reproductions. Scans available on request.
Seller: HEATH BOOKS, West Wickham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket and clear plastic protective overwrap, 196 pages, very good condition, inscribed in blue pen on first blank page, "To Bill Christenberry / affectionately / Walker Evans / July 1962"; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.