Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Three Tenant Families by James Agee, Walker Evans (Authors) & Walker Evans (Cover Photo) - 1970

Houghton Mifflin xvi, 471 ppwith B&W photo illustration plates before text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Black cloth boards are clean and inract with some bumping to spine-ends . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1941. . First edition, 8vo (205 x 138 mm, 8 x 5½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone, toning to edges, occasional minor marks; plain endpapers, light toning from flaps, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped on spine in silver, toning to spine and edges, rubbing to bottom edges, pulling to head of spine, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, wear to edges with tiny chips, short tear to upper panel, short tear and crease to rear, toned and lightly marked, spine faded, a very good copy; [32], [ii], xvi, 471, [3]pp. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men chronicles the lives of three sharecropper families in Alabama during the Depression. Its origins lie in a 1936 assignment for Fortune magazine, which James Agee only accepted on the condition that Walker Evans accompanied him as the photographer. Evans was granted leave without pay from his role with the Resettlement Administration (precursor of the Farm Security… Read More