Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Signed by Walker Evans to Alan Trachtenberg)

James and Walker Evans Agee

Houghton Mifflin, 1960

[Association Copy: Inscribed by Walker Evans to the American Historian, Alan Trachtenberg on front end page]  Hardcover and dust jacket.  Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Chip missing from dj. Good binding and cover. Spotting. xxii, 471 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.  Through photographs and thoughtful text, this volume looks at the Depression and some of the families it affected.  

Receipt, Alan Trachtenberg was a well known Yale historian in American history.   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.