Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Some scuffing to black cloth boards, with minor blemish at joint; close to near fine. In near fine copy of the illustrated jacket, with typical fading to spine, and minor edge-wear.. First Edition. Thick octavo. It's a testament to Evans' vision that thirty-one of his photographs, bound in the front of a book… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1960-01-01. Revised. Hardcover. Good. Signed. [Association Copy: Inscribed by Walker Evans to the American Historian, Alan Trachtenberg on front end page] Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Chip missing from dj. Good binding and cover. Spotting. xxii, 471 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Through photographs and thoughtful text,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Circa 1970's hardcover edition, quite nice. Price on jacket flap is $8.95. This issue contains about 62 photos, double the amount of earlier editions.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Paperback. 471p. A softcover book in fine condition. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. An account of the living conditions of poor sharecroppers in the middle South during the 1930s. Lengthy section of Evans' black and white photographs in front.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.. [2],xvi,471pp, with 31 full-page plates from photographs. Octavo. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Spine ends faded, small smudge on top edge, pencil notes on rear free endsheet, two ink ownership inscriptions (see below) on front free endsheet, small bookplate on pastedown, but a very good copy in spine sunned, somewhat worn dust jacket… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Paperback. 1988. Large 8vo 416pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. This is a paperback Advance Reading Copy. The book, first published in 1941, grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecropper families in the U.S. South during the Dust… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. This is the edition with 61 photos. $8.95 price on jacket. Light dampstaing to corner of bottom page edges..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. 1st ed. Very Good/Good. 31 unnumbered full page photos by Walker Evans, xvi, 471p. Original black cloth. dj. 21 cm. Jacket scuffing, age-toning and edge-wear,with chipping at ends of backstrip panel. Cover dulled with some modest spotting. Small brownstain at top of three text leaves which is visible when the book is closed.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First edition. Evans, Walker. 8vo., [2], xvi, 471 pp. and 31 full-page b&w plates from photographs. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in silver, lightly rubbed at the spine ends; small neat bookseller's ticket on the rear free endpaper. The dust jacket has had minor restoration at the folds, bottom edge of the front panel,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good HARDCOVER w/Good+ DJ. DJ is worn on spine and sides and has a few small rips. Book is slightly worn but has no marks. Tight binding. Possible book club edition. No price listed on DJ flap..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Revised edition. Evans, Walker. Originally published in 1941, this revised edition includes a new foreword by Evans plus additional photographs. First printing of the reissue, inscribed by Evans, perhaps or probably to the novelist: "Tom Berger | with pleasure | Walker Evans." Fine in a near fine jacket [Kingston 14].

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First edition. Near fine in an about very good, somewhat spine-faded dustwrapper with some internal tape removed, a couple of seamless professional mends, and a couple of small chips. Issued in a small edition, an extended essay on rural poverty with arresting images by Evans. Aside from its place in literary history, the Walker… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1941. First Edition. Ownership inscription; very good or a little better in a very good dust jacket with a slightly faded spine and some chips and tears; those at the top of the spine affect, but don’t obliterate, “Let.”

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Illustrated with 31 haunting black-and-white photographs by Evans. "...a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and of the effect of this life on two sensitive observers."-from the dust jacket flap. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 471 pages. Pages 37-43, which were inexplicably excised from this… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Mariner Books Classics, 2001. Trade paperback. Very good.. Mariner Books, 2001, 416 pages+photo section, trade paperback, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Paperback. 1988. Large 8vo 416pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. The American classic, in words and photographs, of three tenant families in the deep south. Featuring striking photographs newly reproduced from archival negatives .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in an about very good, somewhat spine-faded dustwrapper with some internal tape removed, a couple of seamless professional mends, and a couple of small chips. Issued in a small edition, an extended essay on rural poverty with arresting images by Evans. Aside from its place… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. First paperback edition. Preface by Walker Evans. 428pp. Illustrated from 62 photographs. Light foxing on wraps, creases on spine, very good. A book that follows three sharecropper families in the Depression-era South.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co, [ 1960 ]. Second edition, enlarged with the full set of 62 photographs by Evans. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co, [ 1960 ]. Second edition, enlarged with the full set of 62 photographs by Evans. 62 b/w photographs by Walker Evans. plates, xvi, 471 pp. … Read more 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… Read more about this item