Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by Agee, James ; and Walker Evans
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
CHESTER, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Evans, Walker. Original black cloth, blocked in silver. Rear endpaper stained from a newsprint enclosure, else a near-fine copy in dust jacket, slightly faded on the spine and with a few small closed tears. Inscribed by Evans in pencil on the front free endpaper to the photographer and collector "Arnold Crane / from Walker Evans / memorably."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32633
- Title
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
- Author
- Agee, James ; and Walker Evans
- Illustrator
- Evans, Walker
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- , ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, poverty, ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY;
Terms of Sale
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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About the Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
CHESTER, Connecticut
About Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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- First Edition
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