Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 311

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WALKER EVANS.
Together, 2 important titles from the photographer's career, each signed and inscribed.
American Photographs.
Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Illustrated with reproductions of Evans' photographs from his landmark MoMA retrospective. Small 4to, black boards with the cream paper title label; with the errata slip bound in; printed dust jacket, with the usual edgewear. Roth 98; Parr/Badger I 114; Hasselblad 128; Auer 263. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EVANS IN 1965.
(New York): The Museum of Modern Art, (1938)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Text by James Agee. With the introductory section of Evans' important F.S.A. photographs. 4to, black boards; printed dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EVANS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1960)

Additional Details

These titles are from the Library of Robert and Elodie Osborn. Both of these titles are warmly inscribed by Evans.