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Agee, James; Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$11.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Xxii + [474] pp. + 62 pp. Of black & white photos. Printed black cloth binding/boards, title rubbed, spine & corners worn, end papers and top edge have light foxing. Pages: clean, white, unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Cider Creek Books, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover without jacket. Former owner's inscription on front endpaper (a poem), and marginalia noted to one page. Else very good condition: binding sound, mild shelfwear. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may require additional charges.
Seller: Raritan River Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
James Agee and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full disclosure: there are a few notations in the text.
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Agee, James and Evans, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960.
Price: US$18.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No d/j. Soiling to boards. Titles have been rubbed away from spine. Rubbing and bruising to corners of boards. PO name in ink on ffep. Tanning and light soiling to endpapers. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7th printing. Spine creased, worn at head, small damp stain on front cover. Jacket faded on spine, one-inch tear at bottom of front joint.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. xxii, 471. Illustrated with photographs by Walker Evans, including about 30 not in the original edition. Clipping with Agee's portrait, and two small sheets of notes laid in. Edges soiled, but a VG copy in worn dj.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. xxii, 471. Illustrated with photographs by Walker Evans, including about 30 not in the original edition. Clipping with Agee's portrait, and two small sheets of notes laid in. Edges soiled, but a VG copy in worn dj.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
AGEE, James. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN: Three Tenant Families. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, Pp. 471. With original photographs by Walker Evans. Cover slightly spotted, and scuffed at ends of spine, o/w a nice copy. No dj.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1960.
Price: US$24.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is the second printing of the hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Company. Black cloth, moderate signs of age to the book, the covers have marks, a few age spots inside, Email us for a photo. We ship fast. Has all of the iconic photographs inside.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
JAMES AGEE AND WALKER EVANS. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated Second printing of the revised 1960 edition with 1960 on copyright page. Black cloth with spine titles in silver, octavo. With the 1960 forward by Walker Evans on James Agee. xxii,471 pages. 60 pages of photographs by Walker Evans preceding the text Partial bookplate with name scratched out with pen. Otherwise interior is clean, with some very light age toning. Binding tight, textblock square, spine titles bright. Dust jacket is good only with chips to edges, wear along the fold. Rear panel has photos of Walker Evans and James Agee. Publisher's original price on the inside flap. Jacket is in a mylar protector. See my photo. Shipped in box.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Agee, James & Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light shelf wear and aging to covers. Binding is firm. Light soiling to text block. Jacket is price clipped, shows wear/loss to spine ends, more prominently at tail, moderate edge wear, soiling, toning. Now protected in clear archival sleeve. Erasure ghost at upper corner of front endpaper; bruise to upper tip of final ~75 pp.; otherwise interior is evenly toned, free of markings.
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages clean and without tears. Series of famous farm depression era black and white photos at beginning, sharp and clean. Black boards have a few faint spots. Outer edges slightly dirty and pages have age related tanning.
Seller: Tome Sweet Tome, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Agee, James & Evans, Walker. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Description: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, Houghton Mifflin, 1960, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. This printing includes 62 photos by Walker Evans, twice that of the 1941 edition, and thus produces 31 new images.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1960. 471 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Second Edition. Price-clipped DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and todayrecognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth centuryit stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Agee, James; Evans, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1960.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th printing. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have some light wear along edges. edges of pages have toning and light wear. paste down pages and free end papers are clean and unmarked. mylar-covered dust jacket has light stains, small closed tears and creases.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
James Agee. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1960.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The third printing in the same year of the redesigned and revised edition of this famous Depression era collaboration, with all the Walker Evans photographs. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is near fine and unclipped, clean and bright with tiny nicks to the spine edge. Protected by an archival Mylar cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the edition with 61 photos. $8.95 price on jacket. Light dampstaing to corner of bottom page edges.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: dust jacket in brodart wraps. chipping at upper and lower spine, corners. a few tears, some creasing to dust jacket. price clipped. edge and corner wear to boards. a few pencil notes on back page and back paste down. otherwise text is unmarked. binding tight.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Agee, James; Evans, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 471 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with slight fading on the spine. The binding is black with silver writing on the spine. Inclues 56 black and white photographs. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans. It was first published in 1941 in the United States. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
james agee & walker evans. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. [riverside press] houghton mifflin, 1960.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback book in very good++ condition,dust jacket is good,missing chips,3rd printing
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the 1960 enlarged edition with the additional photographs. Clean and unmarked. Photos very bright. Faint, horizontal shadow running all the way across DJ from flap to flap. Solid binding. BF
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Agee, James; Evans, Walker. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; 471 pages; G/G; Gray spine with black and off white text; Dustjacket protected by mylar covering, fraying and chipping to corners, chipping and tearing along cover edges, sunning to spine; Boards shaken, light rubbing to corners; Textblock has writing in pen on front endpaper, foxing along edges; RWO. 1358876. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: xxii, 471pp., 61 plates with 62 illus. Lrg. 8vo. Cloth. D.j.
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Revised edition, hardcover, has a minor skew to the binding which is a touch loose but remains solid throughout, slight bumps to spine ends, a very faint hint of mottling to cover edges, some tiny spots and smudges to edges of text block, and a previous owner's name to head of front pastedown, otherwise a solid VG copy in a Near VG unclipped dust jacket, which has moderate bumps with short tears and very shallow chips to spine ends and upper corners, slight sunning to spine and covers, moderate edgewear with short tears along head, and some faint rubbing with several small smudges. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo in grey DJ, xxii, 471 pages, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Through photographs and thoughtful text, this volume looks at the Depression and some of the families it affected. Contents: Foreword : James Agee in 1936 / by Walker Evans -- Preface -- Book one : preliminaries -- Book two. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Extremely gentle bumping to front board-top corner, exceedingly gentle rubbing to other three corners, extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, exceedingly light soiling to boards, light spot and coffee stain to front free endpaper, faint spotting and soiling to fore-edges, bright pages in tight binding, sunned DJ spine, inside DJ, and front DJ flap-top edge, almost half-inch tear to DJ spine head, two less than quarter-inch hole clips to front DJ, tiny tear to front DJ-top edge (less than quarter-inch), very gently rubbed and frayed DJ corners, less than quarter-inch tear to spine head DJ near joint, very mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, faint spotting to rear DJ, light soiling to front DJ and DJ spine, else Near Fine(-) in Good(+) DJ.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Agee , Jame & Evans , Walker.. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, reprint, 1960. A near fine book in the original cloth binding. In a very good+ dust jacket with edge soiling and mild wear. Not price clipped. One of the best photo essays ever done of the times they lived in.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Agee, James. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, 1960.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With owner's bookplate, otherwise like new in a barely worn jacket, with some nicking to spine ends, (not affecting any lettering). Legendary journalistic look at poor sharecroppers in the South. A terrific vintage copy, crisp and clean. Illustrated with 61 photos.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With all the Walker Evans photos. This is the second edition of 1960 in a new dust gray jacket and type format, probably its second printing or very early as it has no date on the title page. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has two tiny chips at two bottom corners and minor rubbing spots at edges, but is otherwise clean, bright and unclipped, with the original $6.50 flap price. Attractive in the Mylar plastic jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: xxii, 471p., b/w illus., dj.
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light wear to DJ edges as well as minor tearing. Minor stains to exterior edge of the pages. Scratches (light) to dust jacket. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ price clipped.; B&W Photographs; 471 pages
Seller: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company. (1960). Second printing, stated. xxii+471pp. Illustrated with photographs. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy. Light mottling to black boards, with silver print to spine still bright. Light soiling to page edges. Internally, aside from some age-toning to front and rear end-pages, a very good clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket has done it's job well, still in one piece, but soiled with wear and some small tears to all edges and folds. *From the jacket."In the summer os 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with treee families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original and devasting.In the original edition thirty-one pictures - just half the number Walker Evans intented to publish - were printed. Now the full compliment of photographs is appearing"
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Agee, James & Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket, in fresh archival sleeve; tiny chips/light rubbing to jacket edges, board corners softened at top else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; text is surpisingly clean and bright; true first thus with $6.50 price on jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1960). 8vo. First revised edition. Faint scuff to bottom edge of text block. Mild marks of abrasion and rubbing to edges of dust jacket and to d.j. rear panel. VG/VG.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Description: Nice copy. First published in 1940-41. This has 61 photos which was initially the plan for the first printing but only 30 published at that time. Unmarked, tight and square. Prce clipped jacket has only minimal paper loss with tape repair on verso at head of spine. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition hardback with the full compliment of 61 photographs, 1960, in an unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket tanned to spine with slight staining to lower front rh corner (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends with a couple of light marks but text and plates bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover light edge ware price clipped. First thus revised/Enlarged edition with the 1960 copyright date and second printing on the copyright page.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 471p., illus. At head of title: Three tenant families. "This volume is designed in two intentions: as the beginning of a larger piece of work; and to stand of itself, independent of any such further work as may be done . The title of the work as a whole, this volume included, is 'Three tenant families"."--Pref.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover chips edge ware owners name blacked out spine head chip and lightly sunned. First thus revised/Enlarged edition with the 1960 copyright date.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; Third printing; G/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, grey with black and white print; DJ has tears at spine ends and flap corners, edgewear, small tear at center of spine, shelfwear; Boards in black cloth with silver print, wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; xxii, 471 pages, illustrated (b&w plates). 1339636. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the revised edition. Hardcover. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. Small tear to top front of jacket. Some foxing to page edges but not to the text. Spine lettering somewhat rubbed. Internally clean and tight.
Seller: Waverly & Rugby Books, Pinehurst, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover with price clipped DJ. 2nd Edition. A terrific vintage copy, crisp and clean. Illustrated with 61 photos. Normal edge wearing to the board and corners.Wearing to jacket. Stickers residue present. Clean fresh unmarked internally. Legendary journalistic look at poor sharecroppers in the South. xxii, 471pp
Seller: GoldBookShelf, Burlington, ON, Canada
Agee, James; Evans, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Village Works, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1960 Houghton Mifflin, hardcover in price intact jacket, tight and unmarked with light fox speckle to edges. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1960 Houghton-Mifflin 1st edition, Fine-minus/Near Fine DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has a few tiny rubs, very small stain on rear panel, in Mylar with price intact, clean white text with no markings found, rear board has mild bump at rear edge of spine, a very nice copy.
Seller: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.
Agee, James and Walker Evans.. Now Let Us Praise Famous Men.. Houghton Mifflin, Berkeley, 1960.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Originally published in 1941, this is the First Revised Edition of 1960. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Fine grey and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped (price crossed out), very slightly toned along spine panel. 471pp. with Evans's black and white photos before the title page. Q17359
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Agee, James and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass, 1960.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket protected with mylar cover; not price clipped, tiny bit of chipping to the head and foot of the spine on the dust jacket. Text block is complete; boards are straight tips sharp, silver lettering on spine bright. Sixteen pages of b/w photographs of tenant farmers at front of book. Written over seventy years ago, this book has become a legend. In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original and devastating.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
James Agee, Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (The New York Times) In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today -- recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century -- it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Revised Edition. Originally published in 1941, this is the First Revised Edition of 1960. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Fine grey and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped (price crossed out), very slightly toned along spine panel. 471pp. with Evans's black and white photos before the title page. Q17359. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Agee, James; Evans, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The First Printing of the Revised Edition. Jacket priced, but no mention of later printing history. Minor jacket wear, but overall a sharp copy in jacket. ; 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.8 Inches; 471 pages
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Agee, James & Evans, Walker. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 471 pages. Third printing of revised edition. Large amount of glossy b&w photos preceeding title page. Black cloth hardcovers with silver titles on spine. Bright and clean interior. In a grey paper jacket with b&w titles. Sunned overall. Bumped and rubbed edges. NPC, $6.50. VG+/VG-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First revised edition with forward by Evans & with full-complement of b&w plates planned by Evans in advance of text. First edition was @1939, 1940. xxii + 471 pp, Foreword : "James Agee in 1936", Preface, Book One & Preliminaries, Book Two. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, DJ in acetate protector, chipped at top and bottom of spine, worn on the forecorners, orig price $6.50. 5.9" x 8.6" black cloth boards in gray DJ. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
James Agee, Walker Evans. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1960.
Price: US$159.45 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on top text block edge. Shelfwear and closed tearing on spine crown and heel and panel corners.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, pale grey dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 471pp. with Evans's black and white photos before the title page and text. Q16641
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Association Copy: Inscribed by Walker Evans to the American Historian, Alan Trachtenberg on front end page] Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Chip missing from dj. Good binding and cover. Spotting. xxii, 471 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Through photographs and thoughtful text, this volume looks at the Depression and some of the families it affected. Alan Trachtenberg was a well known Yale historian in American history and former Dean at Yale University. Among other works, he is best known for "Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans, a study of American Photography from 1839 to 1938," which won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Autographed by author.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Originally published in 1941, this revised edition includes a new foreword by Evans plus additional photographs. First printing of the reissue, inscribed by Evans, perhaps or probably to the novelist: "Tom Berger | with pleasure | Walker Evans." Fine in a near fine jacket [Kingston 14].
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: **** This is the first printing of the Revised/Enlarged edition (with the 1960 copyright date, and with no later printings listed on the copyright page). ***** This book is SIGNED and dated by Walker Evans on the front endpage. Mr. Evans did not inscribe this book to anyone; it is just signed and dated by him. ***** Signed examples of this classic title are very rare. ***** This is a very nice hardcover with the original dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($6.50). CONDITION: The book is in NEAR FINE condition (nice), and the dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition (minor edgewear, minor chipping). ***** We include new mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all of our books at no extra charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. All books are packaged very carefully and shipped via USPS Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$4461.61 + shipping
Description: First expanded edition, first printing, Hunter S. Thompson's copy, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Thompson's style of Gonzo journalism has its roots in the reeling subjectivity of Agee's narration of Southern labour lives, sharing in his denigration of "honest journalism" and curiosity with the lives of the "undefended and appallingly damaged" (intro). First published in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men began as a collaboration between photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, sent by Fortune Magazine to write a feature on white tenant farmers in the South during the height of the depression. Evans' quiet, composed images influenced Thompson's own amateur photography, and Agee is considered a precursor to the New Journalists. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was not originally a success; it wasn't until the expanded edition, which included all the photographs Evans originally hoped to include, that the book found its natural audience in the 1960s. Roth 101 p. 108. Parr & Badger. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With dust jacket. With photographs by Walker Evans. Spine ends and tips slightly bumped with a little rubbing to extremities and titles, else boards clean and firm, contents bright and unmarked. A near-fine copy, in the lightly rubbed jacket, a little wear to head of spine panel with small chip, a few short closed tears to extremities and the occasional mark, unclipped.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom