Author: AGEE, James
Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction
Description: New York, The Library of America, 2005. Hardcover. Edited by Michael Sragow. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, ivory slipcase. 818pp, (5pp). Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in tan satin page marker. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition thus (volume 159) of this thick trio of writings, with 64 pages of Walker Evans photographs in this edition. Interesting autograph addition: Agee's autobiographical ""A Death in the Family" was published posthumously in 1957, and in 1960 playwright Tad Mosel penned a stage version retitled "All the Way Home," for which he won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. In 1963 a film version was released, and tipped to an inner flyleaf of this volume on a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card is the bold signature of the sole living cast member: JOHN C. CULLUM signs in blue ballpoint, dating it 20 September 1969 at upper right. Cullum (born 1930) portrays Andrew; many remember him best as tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in the t.v. series "Northern Exposure" 91990-95). These slipcased L. of A. editions precede the dust jacketed version (published without slipcase). Cullum’s original transmittal envelope is laid in, as is theLOA leaflet for this title laid in. .
Keywords: American Literature Literary Biography
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Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction
Description: New York, The Library of America, 2005. Hardcover. Edited by Michael Sragow. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, ivory slipcase. 818pp, (5pp). Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in tan satin page marker. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition thus (volume 159) of this thick trio of writings, with 64 pages of Walker Evans photographs in this edition. Interesting autograph addition: Agee's autobiographical ""A Death in the Family" was published posthumously in 1957, and in 1960 playwright Tad Mosel penned a stage version retitled "All the Way Home," for which he won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. In 1963 a film version was released, and tipped to an inner flyleaf of this volume on a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card is the bold signature of the sole living cast member: JOHN C. CULLUM signs in blue ballpoint, dating it 20 September 1969 at upper right. Cullum (born 1930) portrays Andrew; many remember him best as tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in the t.v. series "Northern Exposure" 91990-95). These slipcased L. of A. editions precede the dust jacketed version (published without slipcase). Cullum’s original transmittal envelope is laid in, as is theLOA leaflet for this title laid in. .
Keywords: American Literature Literary Biography
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50758
- Book number: 50758
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