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Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior. The Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Oversized black wraps with mounted white title card; 32 unnumbered pages; chiefly illustrations. Contents include: Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962 -- Scarborough, New York, 1931 -- The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935 -- The Farmer of Somerstown Road, near Ossining, New York, 1931 -- The Church Organ, rural Alabama, 1936 -- Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1959 -- East 120th Street, New York City, 1961 -- The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958 -- Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936 -- Child's Bedroom, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951 -- Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953 -- The Ringling Bandwagon, Sarasota, Florida, 1941. Fair wraps, Good interior (Ex-Library with white sticker on front cover and inside rear cover, and associated markings; wraps are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip has been almost completely worn away; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean with some light toning around the edges; textblock is solid.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior.. The Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Large square flexible card softbound covers. There is some wear to the edges and corners. A couple of inches of the paper at the bottom of the spine is torn. Beautiful photographs throughout, each with a glassine tissue guard. Measures 14.25 inches high by 14 inches wide.
Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.
EVANS, Walker and John Szarkowski. Message From The Interior. Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Softcover. Includes twelve full-page gravure photographs with tissue guards, a brief text by John Szarkowski and a checklist. A clean close to near fine copy in wrappers with some slight loss and wear to the spine ends. Internally a clean copy of this nicely printed book.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker and John Szarkowski. Walker Evans: Message from the Interior. The Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Softcover, 12 numbered illustrations with bound in tissue guards; very good condition; except a few scuffs to paper label on front cover and light foxing to outer page edges which seeps into the extreme edge of a couple pages; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message From The Interior. Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery -- frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate -- is unchallengly his own." A few chips to wrappers, interior bright and clean. Orig. black wrappers, front cover paper label. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior. Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Folio. Burgundy boards. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Tissue guards have creases; two have bottom corners missing; one has a tear at top. Book is in gently read condition. Ex-library with usual markings.
Seller: Friends of PLYMC, Youngstown, OH, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the interior. Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG dark grey boards with white lettering along spine; slight shelf wear. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Unpaginated. Printed by Eakins Press 1966. Afterword by John Szarkowski. The 12 plates are tissued. 14.25x14.5" All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles, Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior. The Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine, covered in the original glassine with some chips. Dark grey cloth with white ink lettering on the spine and a paste-down on the front panel. Square and firmly bound, onionskin paper protecting the photographs, clean internally. A collection of twelve Evans photographs that, according to John Szarkowski, "have helped define the American's sense of his past and his problem."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker and John Szarkowski. Walker Evans: Message from the Interior. The Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 12 numbered illustrations with bound in tissue guards; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
EVANS, Walker. Message from the Interior. The Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$501.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, The Eakins Press, 1966. Large square quarto (370 × 365 mm), 32 pages with 12 full-page photogravure plates with tissue-guards. Cloth lettered on the spine, with a large paper title-label on the front cover; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; top edge and cloth hinges a little foxed; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned at the edges; tissue-guards uniformly lightly tanned; initials and date (LC, 1975) on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. Twelve 'interiors', ranging from sharecropping in Louisiana and Alabama during the Great Depression to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts during the 1950s and 1960s.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
EVANS, Walker. Message from the Interior. New York: Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Square folio. Twelve full-page gravure photographs taken between 1936 and 1962, separated by tissue guards. The images embody Evans' unadorned vision of the American vernacular; simply and beautifully printed. A fine copy in cloth boards with printed label to front panel.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. MESSAGE FROM THE INTERIOR [by] Walker Evans. The Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Large quarto 12 plates, each with tissue guard, gray cloth, printed paper label affixed to front panel, spine panel lettered in white. First edition. Twelve photographic images reproduced in sheet-fed gravure by the Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, NJ. Letterpress by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, VT. The Eakins Press's first publication. A fine copy; lacks the unprinted glassine dust jacket. (#168838)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
EVANS, Walker.. Message from the Interior.. New York The Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$756.25 + shipping
Description: First edition; square folio (360 x 355 mm, 14¼ x 14 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, New Jersey with glassine leaves, afterword by John Szarkowski; tan endleaves, grey mottled cloth-covered boards, printed title label mounted on front, titles stamped in white on spine, fine; [32]pp. These twelve photographs of domestic interiors are richly suggestive of the lives of those who live or lived in them. In the afterword, John Szarkowski describes Evans' style as seeming 'as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imageryfrontal, concisely plain, remotely passionateis unchallengeably his own. This poised containment of form matches the content of the work, for these are pictures impelled by a concern too serious, and a love too intense, to permit the overt intrusion of sentiment.' Regards à travers Le Livre 137; The Open Book pp220-1.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Evans, Walker. Message From The Interior. Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery -- frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate -- is unchallengly his own." Very slight rubbing to extremities. Orig. dark gray basket weave cloth, front cover paper label. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Close to fine in dark grey cloth with title label on front cover, without dust jacket as issued. (Corner tip of one tissue guard folded. Trace of slight rubbing to edges. ) (unpaginated) Folio. (13" X 23") Showcases 12 large sheet-fed gravure images in rich black & white tones, each protected by tissue guards. ; 13" X 23"
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: [Association Copy] Inscribed by Walker Evans to Alan Trachtenberg, "To Alan Trachtenberg, From Walker Evans, affectionately, New Haven, 11/23/71." Softcover. Bound in publisher's wraps. Limited dampstaining to end pages, but still attractive internally. Plates and text clean. [7] pages, 12 photographs with original glassine guards; 36.5 x 35 cm. Hasselblad 220. List of photos: 1. Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962; 2. Scarborough, New York, 1931; 3. The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935; 4. The Farmer of Somerstown Road, Near Ossining, New York, 1931; 5. The Church Organ, Rural Alabama, 1936, 6. Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1956; 7. East 120th Street, New York City, 1961; 8. The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958; 9. Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936; 10. The Child's Room, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951; 11. Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953; 12. The Ringling Bandwagon, Sarasota, Florida, 1941. 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.
Evans, Walker.. Message From the Interior.. The Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limitation not stated. Large format. An immaculate Fine copy in medium grey grainy buckram, grey endpapers, in very scarce original unprinted glassine dustwrapper, also Fine. 12 hand-pulled photogravure full page black and white plates, printed on rectos with glassine guards. All guards Fine and uncreased. One page closing statement by John Szarkowski. Unusually nice copy. Q12351
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior. The Eakins Press, [New York], 1966.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Grey cloth, lettering stamped in white on spine, printed paper label on front board; square folio (14.25 x 14.5 inches); contains 12 full-page photogravures with tissue-guards. Inscribed by the photographer on the FFEP: "Marc Mayer / from an admirer / Walker Evans." Bottom corner bumped, resulting in slight wrinkle throughout text block; else fine. A nice, bright copy.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior : [Signed Copy]. The Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Folio 13" - 23" tall; Very large format, square folio in publisher's heavy grey linen with paper title label to cover board and title lettering in white to spine. Very warmly inscribed to the front endpage; "Bernard, an interior chap / Love / Walker / 9/1/1966." Splendid copy with sharp edges and crisp title lettering at spine; title label unblemished and uniformly bright. Beautifully printed (photogravure process) photographs; each has an unmarred heavy onion skin tissue guard. Publisher's portrait (promotional? ) of Evans laid in at front along with a few pages of obituary clippings and biographical material. Only a hint of shelf rub to the lower front tips and tail. Lovely copy of the very impressive book; signed. About Fine. (Given the warmth of the inscription, it seems likely the book was inscribed to Evans' longtime friend, Bernard H. Haggin. ; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Publisher's cloth with cover label. 14 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Slight yellowing to edges but a fine copy.12 photogravures with glassine guard sheets. Inscribed by Evans to Varujan Boghosian, an artist known for his sculptures and assemblages. Like Evans, Boghosian collected and incorporated found objects in his practice, and was also strongly influenced by literature. The first book published by the Eakins Press.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Evans, Walker. Message from the Interior. Eakins Press, New York, 1966.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Gray cloth with paper title label to front panel. 14.25 x 14.25 inches. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Anita Ventura with best wishes, Walker Evans". Anita Ventura was founding curator of photography at the Stanford University Museum of Art. Light rubbing to edges and spine tips with a tiny bit of fraying to one corner, near fine to fine in custom mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.