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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by Agee, James; Evans, Walker
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Review Copy. Good, lacking the jacket. Blue cloth, toned at the spine and edges, tidemark on the bottom of the front board. Square and firmly bound, bookplate inside the front board, "Jul 28 41" stamped on the front endpaper which has some rippling at the bottom portion, publisher's review slip laid-in, clean otherwise. The classic work of journalism and photography coming as the result of a summer assignment to "discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South" in 1936.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9230
- Title
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Author
- Agee, James; Evans, Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Photography, Sociology, American Studies, American History, 1930s, American South, Dust Bowl, Great Depression, Art, Photobook
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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