Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans - 1960: Three Tenant Families

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Agee, James and Walker Evans
Illustrated in black and white. With an introduction by John Hersey. 472 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1988). Previous owner's inscription opposite title page. A very good(+) copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. liv, 471 pages, [61] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. Depression-era classic on sharecroppers, with stunning photographs by Walker Evans. Born in Tennessee, James Agee (1909-1955) spent the summer of 1936 with photographer Walker Evans among the sharecroppers of Alabama, which resulted in the famous collaborative book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote poetry, screenwriting, and film criticism.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Name stamped on fly leaf. Slight shelf soiling to lower outside page corner. Toning to intact dust jacket. Second edition with more photographs.

1960 hardcover as pictured. A nice copy of the classic text by James Agee with photographs by Walker Evans. Binding is firm. Black cloth boards with sliver stamping show slight fraying at head and tail of spine with gently bumped lower corners. Edge of text block is mottled. Text is unmarked. Includes 64 pages of b&w photographs by Walker Evans. Dust jacket is worn and soiled with multiple tears and chips. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sOO2

New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1969. reprint ed. hardcover. Very Good-/Good. 8vo, black leatherette binding with silver lettering, spine rounded, DJ is lightly soiled and edgeworn, edges of DJ tanned, some foxing spots on rear endpapers, illustrated with b/w photographs, 471 pages

PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. I BOUGHT THIS FOR ONE REASON IT HAS A PRE-PRINTED SIGNATURE AND PHOTO OF JAMES AGEE. HIS SIGNATURE IS SUPER RARE AND WHEN COMES TO MARKET IT IS NOT LESS THAN 10K AND HARD TO PROVE IT WAS HIS.
This book is in a collection of Agee, but all books are for sale. priced higher here so find one cheaper so I don't have to find a better copy for more.

First printing with 31 full-page black/white photographic plates by Evans to front. Full black cloth with a dustjacket (wrapped in mylar) priced $3.50. Silver lettering to spine. Minor foxing and toning to endpapers. Loses to tail/head of dustjacket and top of front (see image). A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
6 x 8.5 in