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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$4520.62 + 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