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New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2004. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 208 pages. Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat—the lens peeking through a buttonhole—he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels,… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slight rubbing and bumping to black cloth. Solid binding and clean text. Pages lower edges with a scattering of small black inkblots. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages .

Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First printing. 178 pp., photos, squarish 8vo, softcover. Erratum slip present. VG copy with no serious flaws except one missing page (p. 123). No owner's name, some wear to tips but no real creases. Light soiling to one blank leaf, small soil spot to rear cover. Scarce book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21.25cm); original printed card wrappers; [xiv],178pp, with erratum slip tipped in following the dedication page; illus. Modest wear and rubbing to wrappers (particularly along the joints), with a few tiny creases to extremities, and a hint of dust-soil to text edges; Very Good+. A collection of photographs by Evans taken on the New York subway during the 1930s and 40s, with an introduction by James Agee. "...Evans concealed a Contax camera beneath his coat, so that he could snap subway passengers without their knowledge. Framing and focusing were left somewhat to chance, the only conscious decision being when to release the shutter" (PARR & BADGER, Vol.1, p.253).

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Introduction by James Agee. An important collection of Evans' photographs taken on the New York subway. A close to near fine and tight copy in wrappers with the errata slip present and with some light wear. Internally a clean copy of this classic book. (Parr & Badger, v1, 253; Roth 180-181).

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by James Agee. An important collection of Evans' photographs taken on the New York subway. An about very good copy in black cloth boards with some faint evidence of moisture to the rear board and the vintage former owner signature of New York City gallerist to the front free endpaper and in a fair only dust jacket that is largely split at the spine and with some large chips, tears and stains to the verso as well. Despite the flaws a solid copy of this classic book. (Parr & Badger, v1, 253; Roth 180-181).

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1966. 1st edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Very Good. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Photography; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2585. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 178 numbered pages, but versos blank, so 89 photographs, one to each recto. Erratum tipped in. A nice copy of this significant photography monograph. The pictures come from the 1930s, all taken on the New York City subway. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Introduction by James Agee. Record # 361948

(EVANS, WALKER). Evans, Walker. Introduction by James Agee. MANY ARE CALLED: PHOTOGRAPHS BY WALKER EVANS. Boston & Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company & The Riverside Press, 1966. First Edition. Small 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Good. xii + 178pp, 89 b&w illustrations. Published in 1966, this hardbound monograph collected in book form for the first time Walker Evans' poignant black and white portraits of New York City subway riders taken during the thirties and forties. An otherwise internally bright, most handsome example of the uncommon Houghton Mifflin Company and Riverside Press first hardcover edition (cited on page 253 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 218-219 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 31 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 104-109 of Horacio Fernandez' "New York in Photobooks")… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by James Agee. An important collection of Evans' photographs taken on the New York subway. A clean and tight very near fine copy in black cloth boards with errata slip and in a near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears and some minor wear A nicer than usual copy of this classic book. (Parr & Badger, v1, 253; Roth 180-181).