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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.

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 famous collaborative book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote poetry, screenwriting, and film criticism.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO., 1988T. paperback. Good. . Cover has minor handling wear. Pages are clean/intact.

Boston, MA: Mariner Books Classics, 2001. Trade paperback. Very good.. Mariner Books, 2001, 416 pages+photo section, trade paperback, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear

Houghton Mifflin. hardcover. ACCEPTABLE/NONE. 8x6x1. 1960 printing; 471 clean, unmarked, tight pages except for small stains on fore-edge of textblock that bleeds ever so slightly onto pages, not affecting text; penciled initials/date and abraded area from something having been removed on front flyleaf; spotting/soiling on outer edges of textblock; cover is clean and sturdy with small dents on edges and a little fraying on spine; no dust jacket; laid-in article from The New Yorker July 18, 1988 about the book

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UsedAcceptable. 1960 2nd printing. Presumed 2nd ed. Worn bind! There is a signature or handwriting on the inside front cover. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing There is some crinkling to some of the pages possibly from water Some corner dings. There are stains or residue on the cover The dust jacket is missing. This is a hardcover copy Some foxing on the edges There is staining on the text block edges There are some tears on the corners of the spine but doesn't effect biding Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

NY: Ballantine Books, 1966. 428pp. 62 photos. Light wear, dampstain to top corner of pages. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market. First Printing, April. U8001.. Paperback. Good.

New York: Ballantine Books. Good with no dust jacket. Paperback.

Ballantine, 1966. 428 pages. 01512. Corners slightly bumped and chipped. Covers scuffed. One light crease on spine. Pages yellowing but not worn. Original copyright 1941. Over 60 black and white photographs. History of the depression era and tenant farmers.. 2nd. Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good+.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. liv, 471 pages, [61] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. 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 famous collaborative book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote poetry, screenwriting, and film criticism.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Paperback. 471p. A softcover book in fine condition. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. An account of the living conditions of poor sharecroppers in the middle South during the 1930s. Lengthy section of Evans' black and white photographs in front.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Paperback. 1988. Large 8vo 416pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. This is a paperback Advance Reading Copy. The book, first published in 1941, grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecropper families in the U.S. South during the Dust Bowl .

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

Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. 1960. Hardcover. No d/j. Soiling to boards. Titles have been rubbed away from spine. Rubbing and bruising to corners of boards. PO name in ink on ffep. Tanning and light soiling to endpapers. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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. Dust jacket is worn and soiled with multiple tears and chips. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sOO2

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Circa 1970's hardcover edition, quite nice. Price on jacket flap is $8.95. This issue contains about 62 photos, double the amount of earlier editions.

Ballantine Books, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. Second Printing. 428 pages. Paperback book with pictorial paper covers. Contains black and white photographic plates to front of textblock. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin Company., 2001.. Reprint.. Soft cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.