Published by Melville House, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Seller: Better Read Than Dead, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Photographs by Walker Evans (illustrator). 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.
Published by Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 6 X 7 3/4"; 224 pages.
Published by Christian Bourgois Editeur, 2014
ISBN 10: 2267026910 ISBN 13: 9782267026917
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Softcover. Condition: Bon. Evans, Walker (illustrator). Ancien livre de bibliothčque. Edition 2014. Ammareal reverse jusqu'ŕ 15% du prix net de cet article ŕ 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.
Published by Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: 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.
Published by BOURGOIS, 2014
ISBN 10: 2267026910 ISBN 13: 9782267026917
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: very good. Evans, Walker (illustrator). 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.
Published by Melville House, Brooklyn, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Christian Bourgois Editeur, 2014
ISBN 10: 2267026910 ISBN 13: 9782267026917
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Evans, Walker (illustrator). 192 pages. French language. 7.80x5.83x0.63 inches. In Stock.
Published by Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: 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.
Published by Melville House, Brooklyn, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Walker Evans (Photographer) (illustrator). 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.
Published by Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192122 ISBN 13: 9781612192123
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Walker Evans (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. with a full number line starting with 1.