Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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

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

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, is a little soiled and edge worn with a one-inch closed tear. Boards are a little edge worn. Page ends are foxed. Name & date (1961) written on the front end page. Text is unmarked. Strong binding. NOT ex-library.

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