Called by Walker Evans (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. A fine fresh copy in like dust wrapper, essentially as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover has worn edges, rubbing. Name on endpaper. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding. Portrait photography.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 208 pages. Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat?the lens peeking through a buttonhole?he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans?s subway portraits. Record # 362455.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. "First edition R". Richly illustrated with photographs in black and white. 178 pp. Very light wear to covers. Condition: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. Completely clean. Introduction by James Agee. Foreword by Luc Sante. Illustrated in black & white with 89 of Walker Evans' photographs from the 1950' and 60's. 10" high X 8" wide, 207 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Damage to the interior boards. Tape on the boards. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Black wraps with white and grey lettering; 178 pp.; richly illustrated in black and white.

Hardcover. Black wraps with white and grey lettering; 178 pp.; richly illustrated in black and white. VG: (Ex-library with stickers; clean, bright pages and solid binding.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards in black cloth w/ immaculate silver gilt to spine; Pages free of markings; Dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Black boards with white lettering. Some rippling at the top of the front board edge (about an 1"). Boards have light soil marks. Fore edge and bottom have bright white ends. Top of text block is little dulled likely from dust. End papers are free from owner's names and book plates. They are clean and bright. DJ is tapped in spots and has heavy wear and various tears. Pictures available on request. First Edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good .Ships From Multiple Locations. book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Binding Tight Pages Clean Wraps Worn. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood condition, first edition, wear to edges and covers, bumped tips, 8vo, 178 pages.

Softcover, 178 pages; good condition; moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers with two 3-inch closed tears at bottom of rear cover near spine and multiple creases between the 2 tears; owner's name on inside front cover; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, wrappered issue, with errata slip bound in after the dedication page. Tall octavo. Wrappers creased and worn with a bit of loss at the crown (affecting one letter), topedge foxed, about very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Slight rubbing and bumping to black cloth. Solid binding and clean text. Pages lower edges with a scattering of small black inkblots. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages. …

Hardcover in black boards without dustjacket and protective clear plastic overwrap, 178 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cloth. First edition. Covers shelfworn. Part of jacket flap pasted inside front cover.

Paperback. Black wraps with white and grey lettering; 178 pp.; richly illustrated. Scarce softcover. Good- (Ex-library with stickers;wraps are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged/foxed; interior is lightly toned and occasionally foxed or smudged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. good +. First printing. 8 x 9 in. Black cloth boards. Stated first printing, 1966. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers extremely clean and white titles perfect. Minor bumping to spine ends, no wear to edges and corners at all. Binding tight. Text and photo plates spotless. DJ is GOOD+ ; not clipped ($10.00) has some very faint spots that are a shade paler than the black, a bit rubbed, small tears at lower front and rear corners and spine tail, some mild crease marks by the tears. In a new Mylar wrapper. Phot. RGR.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. DJ has several tears and about 2" missing from top of spine. Book itself is solid and free of faults or blemishes. Jacket price clipped.

Softcover, 178 pages; very good condition except: crease to spine; small piece missing at top left corner tip of spine; edgewear to spine; small nick at right center edge of cover; a few scatered specks and rubbing marks to covers; internally fine with no internal marks.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIrst Printing. Stated FIrst Printing.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Very Good+ hardcover with crisp white lettering to the black cloth and light rubbing at the extremities in a Poor dust jacket with loss at the heel, crown and tips and a one-inch by one-inch chip to the front and wear at the edges. All five panels of the dust jacket are present but the front flap has separated and the front and back panels are separated at the spine; the pieces are held together by a mylar cover that gives the appearance of being whole. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. 178 pages; 90 b&w plates; 9.75 x 8 inches. Errata slip bound in. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat, he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans's subway portraits.…

Walker Evans produced this remarkable series of clandestine portraits of passengers on the New York City subway between 1938 and 1941. He caught his subjects off guard by strapping a 35mm Contax camera to his chest, with the lens protruding out between two buttons of his overcoat. He operated the shutter with a cable running down the length of his sleeve. He was initially accompanied by fellow photographer Helen Levitt, who acted as both companion and distractor when the need arose. First edition; small 4to (215 x 174 mm); black and white photographs printed in halftone; cream endpapers; black cloth-covered boards, spine and upper side stamped in white, black & white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, text in grey and white, rubbing to extremities, light scratching and short tear to lower panel bottom edge, short tears to head of spine at folds, errata slip tipped in, a very good copy. [xiv], 178pp. Regards sur un sià cle de photographie à travers Le Livre 136; The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp180-1; The Photobook: A History I, p253; The Open Book pp218-9; 802 photo books from the Auer Collection p456.…

First edition. Original black cloth, fine, with a near-fine jacket (tiny closed tear, small rub on spine). Inscribed by Evans to photographer and collector Arnold Crane.

First printing. Square 8vo, pp. 178. Introduction by James Agee. Erratum slip tipped in. Paper wraps. Cover quite scuffed, half-title slightly spotted, o/w a VG tight copy. Photographs of people taken on the New York City subway.

First Edition. Walker Evans. James Agee, introduction. Many Are Called. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First edition. Octavo. 178pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Walker Evans. Publisher's black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, original dust jacket. . Light wear to boards, price-clipped jacket creased and torn, tape repairs to verso. Verso good. …

Evans writes to Henry James biographer Leon Edel in a two page Autograph Letter Signed on one 8vo sheet of "The Century Association" stationery, New York City, Feb. 9, 1966. In 1966, Evans' photographic study of New York City subway riders was published. "Many Are Called," (1938-41) was photographed with hidden camera, first published almost 30 a after the images were captured and reissued in 2004. He writes, "May I intrude upon your scholarship if it extends to Henry James senior. I want to use a quotation which F. O. Matthiessen gives partially on p. 13 of 'The James Family' and I have no idea where to find it. Matthiessen writes, 'probably James best-known remark is that "to a right-minded man" a crowded horse-car is "the nearest approach to heaven upon earth"." Evans explains he seeks the exact quotation noting that, "F. O. M. does not give a hint of his source.knowing your erudition I do hope you may have in mind.do not take down any books yourself for my quest. I'll do that." He signs in full, "Walker Evans." Evans found the actual quote and used it in his photographic portraits of New York City riders titled, "Many Are Called." The correct quote reads: "To a right-minded man, a crowded Cambridge horse car is the nearest approach to heaven upon earth." [Walker Evans, "A Penitent Spy," Rathbone, 2000]. Evans left his post as editor of Fortune Magazine in 1965 and joined the faculty of Yale University. Signed.…