Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960. 8vo, black cloth, silver titles, 471pp. First Revised Edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (6.50) with toning to panels, moderate wear to edges. Ownership bookplate, toning to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second trade issue of the monumental collaboration between the journalist Agee and photographer Evans, a portrait of three tenant families in the American South. Essays and photographs gathered from a journalistic assignment conducted in 1936 through the Works Progress Administration. Photographic plates preface text. Includes a tipped-in publisher’s brochure advertising the book. A nearly fine copy in mylar.
Price: $75.00