Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Three Tenant Families

by James Agee

photographs by Walker Evans 

First edition.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Black cloth covers show exposure.  Boards show some rubbing, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed and frayed.  See photos.  
• Spine has silver text and is sunned, with softened ends.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps are toned, have some staining, signs of adhesion.  See photos. 
• Illustrations, a block of 31 black and white photographs bound at front of volume are bright, with scattered foxing.  See photos.  
• Interior exhibits scattered foxing at front, some smudges, a few marks.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2024.0711

471 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches

First edition copy in publisher's black cloth, lacking dust jacket, shows exposure.  In overall very good minus condition; photo block at front has foxing that intrudes onto Walker Evans' images.

A work of photo journalism and domestic anthropology, James Agee and Walker Evans' tracing of the lives of three tenant families in 1936 has become the essential record of the Great Depression in agricultural America.

First edition.  Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge.

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