Message Interior by Evans Walker (22 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 14" x 14.25" soft cover of tissue guarded photographs. Tight and unmarked. Tiny blemishes to spine. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Tissue guards intact. Boards show some wear, including rubbing at edges and corners, minor discoloration, and some wear to title paste on; otherwise very good.

Paperback. Oversized black wraps with mounted white title card; 32 unnumbered pages; chiefly illustrations. Contents include: Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962 -- Scarborough, New York, 1931 -- The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935 -- The Farmer of Somerstown Road, near Ossining, New York, 1931 -- The Church Organ, rural Alabama, 1936 -- Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1959 -- East 120th Street, New York City, 1961 -- The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958 -- Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936 -- Child's Bedroom, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951 -- Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953 -- The Ringling Bandwagon, Sarasota, Florida, 1941. Fair wraps, Good interior (Ex-Library with white sticker on front cover and inside rear cover, and associated markings; wraps are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip has been almost completely worn away; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean with some light toning around the edges; textblock is solid.).

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Large square flexible card softbound covers. There is some wear to the edges and corners. A couple of inches of the paper at the bottom of the spine is torn. Beautiful photographs throughout, each with a glassine tissue guard. Measures 14.25 inches high by 14 inches wide.

Condition: Good. Pbk, square large folio, 32 unnumbered pages, illustr 12 full-page b+w photo plates with tissue-guards, black flexible card covers with white title label affixed to the front. Substantial edgewear with losses to the edges of the cover stock, but the covers have done their protective work and internally remains solid and bright, some light even toning to pages and slight curling to lower corner tips of first several pages (not interfering with the images), otherwise a very good, clean, unmarked copy becoming harder to find.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Interior photographs fine. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover, 12 numbered illustrations with bound in tissue guards; very good condition; except a few scuffs to paper label on front cover and light foxing to outer page edges which seeps into the extreme edge of a couple pages; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Stiff Wraps. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery -- frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate -- is unchallengly his own." A few chips to wrappers, interior bright and clean. Orig. black wrappers, front cover paper label. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Folio. Burgundy boards. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Tissue guards have creases; two have bottom corners missing; one has a tear at top. Book is in gently read condition. Ex-library with usual markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York, The Eakins Press, 1966. Large square quarto (370 × 365 mm), 32 pages with 12 full-page photogravure plates with tissue-guards. Cloth lettered on the spine, with a large paper title-label on the front cover; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; top edge and cloth hinges a little foxed; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned at the edges; tissue-guards uniformly lightly tanned; initials and date (LC, 1975) on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. Twelve 'interiors', ranging from sharecropping in Louisiana and Alabama during the Great Depression to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts during the 1950s and 1960s.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine, covered in the original glassine with some chips. Dark grey cloth with white ink lettering on the spine and a paste-down on the front panel. Square and firmly bound, onionskin paper protecting the photographs, clean internally. A collection of twelve Evans photographs that, according to John Szarkowski, "have helped define the American's sense of his past and his problem.".

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 12 numbered illustrations with bound in tissue guards; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery -- frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate -- is unchallengly his own." Very slight rubbing to extremities. Orig. dark gray basket weave cloth, front cover paper label. Very good.

First edition; square folio (360 x 355 mm, 14¼ x 14 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, New Jersey with glassine leaves, afterword by John Szarkowski; tan endleaves, grey mottled cloth-covered boards, printed title label mounted on front, titles stamped in white on spine, fine; [32]pp. These twelve photographs of domestic interiors are richly suggestive of the lives of those who live or lived in them. In the afterword, John Szarkowski describes Evans' style as seeming 'as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imageryâ"frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionateâ"is unchallengeably his own. This poised containment of form matches the content of the work, for these are pictures impelled by a concern too serious, and a love too intense, to permit the overt intrusion of sentiment.' Regards à travers Le Livre 137; The Open Book pp220-1.

Large quarto 12 plates, each with tissue guard, gray cloth, printed paper label affixed to front panel, spine panel lettered in white. First edition. Twelve photographic images reproduced in sheet-fed gravure by the Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, NJ. Letterpress by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, VT. The Eakins Press's first publication. A fine copy; lacks the unprinted glassine dust jacket. (#168838).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. [Association Copy] Inscribed by Walker Evans to Alan Trachtenberg, "To Alan Trachtenberg, From Walker Evans, affectionately, New Haven, 11/23/71." Softcover. Bound in publisher's wraps. Limited dampstaining to end pages, but still attractive internally. Plates and text clean. [7] pages, 12 photographs with original glassine guards; 36.5 x 35 cm. Hasselblad 220. List of photos: 1. Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962; 2. Scarborough, New York, 1931; 3. The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935; 4. The Farmer of Somerstown Road, Near Ossining, New York, 1931; 5. The Church Organ, Rural Alabama, 1936, 6. Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1956; 7. East 120th Street, New York City, 1961; 8. The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958; 9. Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936; 10. The Child's Room, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951; 11. Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953; 12. The Ringling Bandwagon, Sarasota, Florida, 1941. Alan Trachtenberg was a well known Yale historian in American history and former Dean at Yale University. Among other works, he is best known for "Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans, a study of American Photography from 1839 to 1938," which won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Autographed by author. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limitation not stated. Large format. An immaculate Fine copy in medium grey grainy buckram, grey endpapers, in very scarce original unprinted glassine dustwrapper, also Fine. 12 hand-pulled photogravure full page black and white plates, printed on rectos with glassine guards. All guards Fine and uncreased. One page closing statement by John Szarkowski. Unusually nice copy. Q12351.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Grey cloth, lettering stamped in white on spine, printed paper label on front board; square folio (14.25 x 14.5 inches); contains 12 full-page photogravures with tissue-guards. Inscribed by the photographer on the FFEP: "Marc Mayer / from an admirer / Walker Evans." Bottom corner bumped, resulting in slight wrinkle throughout text block; else fine. A nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Folio 13" - 23" tall; Very large format, square folio in publisher's heavy grey linen with paper title label to cover board and title lettering in white to spine. Very warmly inscribed to the front endpage; "Bernard, an interior chap / Love / Walker / 9/1/1966." Splendid copy with sharp edges and crisp title lettering at spine; title label unblemished and uniformly bright. Beautifully printed (photogravure process) photographs; each has an unmarred heavy onion skin tissue guard. Publisher's portrait (promotional? ) of Evans laid in at front along with a few pages of obituary clippings and biographical material. Only a hint of shelf rub to the lower front tips and tail. Lovely copy of the very impressive book; signed. About Fine. (Given the warmth of the inscription, it seems likely the book was inscribed to Evans' longtime friend, Bernard H. Haggin. ; Signed by Author.

First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Square folio (37cm); original coarse gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; and printed title label mounted to front cover; [32]pp; illustrated with 12 tissue-guarded gravures after photographs taken by Evans between 1931-1962. Mild rubbing to spine ends, a hint of foxing to title leaf, and some trivial dustiness to title label; a small, old price sticker ($17.50) is mounted to upper left corner of front pastedown; Near Fine, lacking the glassine dustjacket. With an afterword by John Szarkowski.

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Square 4to (14-1/2 x 14-1/2 in.); gray cloth with printed label. Reproduces a series of twelve photographs, each separated by a glassine overleaf, and with an afterword by John Szarkowski. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Evan on the title page to Varujan Boghosian, a sculptor and assemblage artist. This was the first publication of the Eakins Press.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the photographer "Lincoln, from Walker". This work collects twelve of Evans's iconic black-and-white photographs, considered defining documents of 20th-century America.The recipient, Lincoln Kirstein, is most noted for his hand in founding the New York City Ballet. Kirstein was a close friend of Walker Evans who he had befriended in his early days in New York, and collaborated with him in 1938 on his exhibition 'American Photographs' at The Museum of Modern Art. This was the first exhibition in The Museum of Modern Art devoted to the work of a single photographer. The catalogue and book included an accompanying essay by the recipient, Lincoln Kirstein, which helped to establish Evans's legacy. Quarto. Twelve works of photography reproduced in sheet-fed gravure. Original grey mottled cloth, titles to white paper label to front board in black, titles to spine in white. Light ring stain to front board, corners just lightly rubbed, a very smart copy.