Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Literature

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AGEE, JAMES.

A Death in the Family.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, thin fade to

board extremities; unclipped dust jacket, light rubbing to spine panel ends, 1-inch closed

tear in spine panel into letter “A” of title; contents clean.

NewYork: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957)

[400/600]

FIRST EDITION

FIRST ISSUE

with title-page printed in blue and the first word on page 80 as “walk-

ing” rather than “waking.”A handsome copy of Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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AGEE, JAMES; and EVANS, WALKER.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Photographic plates byWalker Evans. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, lettered in silver on spine,

light wear to extremities; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel faded, light edgewear, 1

-inch

closed tear at spine panel fold; ownership inscription, else contents clean.

FIRST EDITION

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941

[1,500/2,500]

WITH

Another copy. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth; dust jacket, spine panel tanned and chipped with

abrasion touching letters; internally clean. Later edition. Boston, (1960).

Lawrence M. Solomon, MD (1931-2014) was a longtime book collector whose library was sold at

Swann November 10, 2015. Further selections from his collection are noted with the initials (LMS).

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CENTURY LITERATURE

Public Auction Sale 2416 Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:30 pm

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