Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1988
ISBN 10: 0395488974 ISBN 13: 9780395488973
Da: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good. 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. Size: 8vo.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1988
ISBN 10: 0395488974 ISBN 13: 9780395488973
Da: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: 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.
Editore: Melville House, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: Better Read Than Dead, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Photographs by Walker Evans (illustratore). First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. A collaboration with text by James Agee and photographs by Walker Evans, "Three Families" depicts the lives of Alabama farm laborers in the summer of 1936. The project was commissioned by Fortune magazine but shelved and unknown until it's post humous discovery in 2010. Very Good, text blocked lightly warped due to humidity. Near Fine jacket, lightly rubbed. 8vo. Black boards with white lettering to spine. 224 pp.
Editore: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 6 X 7 3/4"; 224 pages.
Editore: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 2014
ISBN 10: 2267026910 ISBN 13: 9782267026917
Da: Ammareal, Morangis, Francia
Softcover. Condizione: Bon. Evans, Walker (illustratore). Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 2014. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Edition 2014. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989
ISBN 10: 0395488974 ISBN 13: 9780395488973
Da: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good.
Editore: Mariner Books, 1989
ISBN 10: 0395488974 ISBN 13: 9780395488973
Da: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.3 Inches; 471 pages.
Editore: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
Editore: BOURGOIS, 2014
ISBN 10: 2267026910 ISBN 13: 9782267026917
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: very good. Evans, Walker (illustratore). Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Editore: Melville House, Brooklyn, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: MABA
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. 2nd Printing. 6 x 8 in. Paper boards. B&W photos. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. DJ is NEAR FINE ; not clipped, like near new. Phot. RGR.
Editore: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 2014
ISBN 10: 2267026910 ISBN 13: 9782267026917
Da: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. Evans, Walker (illustratore). 192 pages. French language. 7.80x5.83x0.63 inches. In Stock.
Editore: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, Regno Unito
Condizione: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
Editore: New York: Furioso, 1943
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 60pp (including stapled wrappers). A scarce early issue of this literary magazine edited by future Cold War intelligence legend James Jesus Angleton (whose life was depicted in the 2006 film "The Good Shepherd"). Includes a review of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by Robert Fitzgerald. Library stamp to cover (no other markings), light overall wear. Not Signed.
Editore: Melville House, Brooklyn, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Walker Evans (Photographer) (illustratore). 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.
Editore: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Da: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Walker Evans (illustratore). 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. with a full number line starting with 1.