Agee james and evans walker (60 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. liv, 471 pp. Fourth printing thus. An ex-library copy with minor library markings. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. With the photographs from the original 1941 edition, and a new Foreword by John Hersey.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. liv, 471 pages, [61] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. 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. Size: 8vo. …

Softcover, 416 pages, as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 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. Size: 8vo.…

PAPERBACK. Zustand: VG. Later Printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Cover has minor handling wear. Pages are clean/intact.

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

paperback. First printing thus. rack-size pbk, (U8001, $1.25); 428 pgs w/ 62 pgs of photos by Evans, on heavy stock paper, at front; the 1st pocket size pbk ed after scarce 1960 trade pbk. near fine copy: some creases & minor glue spotting to spine, which has flaked some lettering, but book still square & tight; very attractive.…

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.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. "The American Classic, in Words and Photographs of Three Tenant Families in The Deep South" Featuring striking photographs newly reproduced from archival negatives. SOFTCOVER Wonderful as new copy 416 pages dark and clean copy. With a sixty four page photographic prologue of Evans work. A Treasure. Walker Evans Photographs (illustrator).…

First edition, first printing Fine and bright tall stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Wonderful layout of both artists in color and vintage black and white and nicely realized text. Just the lightest age tone to fore edge.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 8vo., 471 pp. Second print of the 2001 Mariner Books edition. Includes a 62-page photo insert illustrated with black and white plates. Later softcover print of the landmark work of American photojournalism 'renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality' [The New York Times]. In 1941, the book was first published to enormous critical acclaim and recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Includes as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's images. Near Fine in glossy pictorial wraps.…

8vo, pp. xxii, 471. Illustrated with photographs by Walker Evans, including about 30 not in the original edition. Clipping with Agee's portrait, and two small sheets of notes laid in. Edges soiled, but a VG copy in worn dj.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. One of the defining collaborations of twentieth-century American literature and photography, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew from Agee and Evans' 1936 assignment to document the lives of Southern tenant farmers. First published in 1941 to limited commercial response, the book achieved its lasting reputation after Agee's death and was reissued by Houghton Mifflin in 1960. That edition was not simply a textual reprint: Walker Evans reconsidered and substantially expanded the photographic component, doubling the original portfolio from 31 photographs to 62. The book's remarkable organization is especially worth noting. Evans' photographs occupy a self-contained sequence before the reader reaches the title and copyright pages. Portraits of the tenant families, their children, homes, interiors, possessions, and surroundings are therefore encountered before Agee's prose supplies names, interpretation, or narrative. This was fundamental to the conception of the work: Agee described photographs and text as mutually independent, collaborative elements rather than treating Evans' photographs as conventional illustrations. The photographs are followed by a leaf acknowledging their reproduction through the courtesy of the Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, further connecting the volume with the institutional history of Depression-era documentary photography. This copy belongs to the 1960 revised and expanded Houghton Mifflin edition, 471 pages. It is not a 1960 first printing. The copyright page records copyrights of 1939 and 1940 by James Agee; 1941 by James Agee and Walker Evans; ©1960 by Walker Evans; and, importantly, "Copyright © renewed 1969 by Mia Fritsch Agee." The number line "C 16 15 14 13 12 11 10" has 10 as its lowest number, identifying this as the 10th printing. Because the 1969 renewal statement is printed in the book, this physical printing necessarily dates 1969 or later. Condition - Book: Very Good+. Black cloth remains unusually clean and handsome, with strong silver spine lettering and only modest wear at spine ends and extremities. Boards remain square, binding is firm, and the photographic plates and text are clean and well preserved. No ownership markings or annotations. Dust Jacket: Very Good-. Original gray jacket remains substantially complete, with edge rubbing, small chips and short tears at the spine ends and corners, scattered surface marks, and creasing and closed tearing particularly along the lower rear panel. Typography remains strong and the important photographic portraits of Agee and Evans on the rear panel are intact. The jacket significantly improves both the appearance and collectibility of this later printing. One of the most sophisticated aspects of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is something easily missed when encountering the book only through its title: Evans gets the first word without using any words at all. By putting the photographic portfolio ahead of the ordinary title and copyright matter, the book temporarily withholds even the apparatus that normally tells us what we are looking at. The reader first confronts faces, rooms, weathered boards, clothing, beds, children, and household objects as visual evidence. Only afterward does Agee's extraordinarily dense prose begin interpreting the same world. James Agee (1909-1955) was an American writer, journalist, poet, film critic, and screenwriter whose reputation increased dramatically after his early death. His writing in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men moves far beyond conventional reportage, mixing minute documentary observation with autobiography, social criticism, religious imagery, and experimental prose. Walker Evans (1903-1975) became one of the central figures in twentieth-century American photography. His straightforward, unsentimental images of vernacular architecture, signs, interiors, ordinary objects, and working Americans profoundly influenced subsequent documentary photography.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. This is a very good book with a fair jacket. The jacket did its job. This is a 2nd printing of the book. The photographs are haunting to say the least. My daddy grew up during this time period. The stories he told. He went to fight in World War II as well. Any of these pictures represent the life he led in Oklahoma and Texas.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. B American History: This is the second printing of the first edition, with some light wear, in a very good dj w a small chip at the spine top and light edge wear. Gray spine, white title.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1960 Reprint. COLLECTIBLE. Good hardbound book with dust jacket and covered in clear, protective Brodart for future preservation. JAMES AGEE with photographs by WALKER EVANS. GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Black and white photographs by Walker Evans. Ninth printing thus. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning), price clipped jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Thus. Dust jacket protected with mylar cover; not price clipped, tiny bit of chipping to the head and foot of the spine on the dust jacket. Text block is complete; boards are straight tips sharp, silver lettering on spine bright. Sixteen pages of b/w photographs of tenant farmers at front of book. Written over seventy years ago, this book has become a legend. In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original and devastating.…

Hardcover. Black fabric casebound book with the title in silver lettering down the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in black and in green on a mostly white spine. Pages: (61), (5), vi-xi, (10), 6-416. Contains sixty-one pages of black-and-white plates. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression. It was the time of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs designed to help the poorest segments of the society. Agee and Evans spent eight weeks that summer researching their assignment, mainly among three white sharecropping families mired in desperate poverty. They returned with Evans's portfolio of stark images -- of families with gaunt faces, adults and children huddled in bare shacks before dusty yards in the Depression-era nowhere of the deep south -- and Agee's detailed notes. The manuscript was accepted for publication by Houghton Mifflin in 1939 and appeared two years later to enormous critical acclaim." VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on top and bottom text blocks. Due date card on back pasted end page.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Revised and enlarged edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs reproduced through the courtesy of Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. Foreword by Walker Evans. Toning on endpapers, rubbing on boards and spine, light foxing on topedge, very good in a very good dust jacket with light soiling, and a three inch tear at the foot of the spine. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Third printing stated. 224 pages. This was co-published with The Baffler magazine. A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. The origins of Agee and Evan's famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. He said that his goal was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". His works are in the permanent collections of major museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum. In the summer of 1936 the business magazine Fortune operated by Henry Luce dispatched staff writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on loan from the Farm Securities Administration, to Alabama to examine the economic plight of white cotton tenant farmers. Agee's report was a powerful indictment of the Southern economic system, but the story was killed by the magazine. One might surmise that Fortune found the piece too critical of Southern capitalism, but researchers have been unable to locate any correspondence explaining why this indictment was rejected for publication. Although Agee's 1936 trip to Alabama did provide important research for his 1941 book on sharecroppers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the original manuscript was part of the writer's papers discovered by his daughter in Agee's Greenwich Village home. The James Agee Trust then transferred this collection to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library where the typescript "Cotton Tenants" was found. In 2012, approximately one-third of the document was published in The Baffler by editor John Summers who worked with Melville House to release the complete document. Fifty years after Agee's death, this trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled Cotton Tenants. Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune. Published here in full for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans's historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee's dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. Walker Evans (Photographer) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover: 8.63 x 6 x 1.75 in., Front and back cover: covered in mylar, tears along top edge of cover, mylar torn on bottom left corner of back cover; Pages: small stain spots on text block, bottom corners slightly worn, otherwise in very good condition; Overall: very good condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Revised and enlarged edition, first printing. Illustrated from black and white photographs reproduced through the courtesy of Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. Light offsetting on front endpapers, modest soiling on topedge, else a near fine copy in a good only age-toned dust jacket with stain on front panel, edges worn with tears. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Boards slightly darkened to edges. Spine slightly darkened. Ringmark to front board. This book is heavy and will attract postal surcharges. C00001577.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1960 Houghton Mifflin, hardcover in price intact jacket, tight and unmarked with light fox speckle to edges. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.