Message Interior by Evans Walker, Signed (4 results)

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: 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. 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.