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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. Eakins Press, 1966.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very slight rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Slight discoloration to portions of boards (hard to see) . ; Briefly inscribed and beautifully signed in fountain pen by Evans on front free endpaper. Book contains full page b/w photos, each with a tissue guard. Due to size, ships within US only. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 32 pp; Book stored in upstairs TV cabinet.
Seller: AVON HILL BOOKS, Cambridge, MA, 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.