Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: ; three tenant families
by Agee, James; Evans, Walker
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Extremely gentle bumping to front board-top corner, exceedingly gentle rubbing to other three corners, extremely mild rubbing to
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Extremely gentle bumping to front board-top corner, exceedingly gentle rubbing to other three corners, extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, exceedingly light soiling to boards, light spot and coffee stain to front free endpaper, faint spotting and soiling to fore-edges, bright pages in tight binding, sunned DJ spine, inside DJ, and front DJ flap-top edge, almost half-inch tear to DJ spine head, two less than quarter-inch hole clips to front DJ, tiny tear to front DJ-top edge (less than quarter-inch), very gently rubbed and frayed DJ corners, less than quarter-inch tear to spine head DJ near joint, very mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, faint spotting to rear DJ, light soiling to front DJ and DJ spine, else Near Fine(-) in Good(+) DJ.. Octavo in grey DJ, xxii, 471 pages, b&w illustrations; 22 cm. Through photographs and thoughtful text, this volume looks at the Depression and some of the families it affected. Contents: Foreword: James Agee in 1936 / by Walker Evans -- Preface -- Book one: preliminaries -- Book two. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91268
- Title
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: ; three tenant families
- Author
- Agee, James; Evans, Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Extremely gentle bumping to front board-top corner, exceedingly gentle rubbing to other three corners, extremely mild rubbing to
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- United States;
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