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Agee, James (1909-1955) and Walker Evans (1903-1975) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940.
First edition, octavo, 471 pages; bound in publisher's black cloth, title stamped in silver, illustrated with thirty-one photographs by Evans, with the original dust jacket, not price clipped, chipped along top edge with some loss, spine of jacket faded, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate $1,500-2,000
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