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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; [34],x,471,[3]pp; illus. Slight lean, sunning to spine, some modest wear and hand-soil to cloth, with some darkening to gutters at endpapers, and very faint foxing to margins of the preliminary photographic plates; Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. An important collaborative work by Agee and Evans, published in a single edition of fewer than 2,500 copies, the product of their journalistic assignment in the summer of 1936 to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. Includes 31 plates from photographs by Walker Evans. ROTH 101. PARR-BADGER I:144.