Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction by James Agee. First Edition stated, 2005 Library of America. Presumed First Printing with the slipcase still in the original shrink-wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition protected in the original shrink-wrap. making it an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket as issued. The slipcase is in Near Fine condition with mild surface wear and mild edge and corner wear. Still in the original shrink-wrap.
This Library of America volume collects his fiction along with his extraordinary experiment in what might be called prophetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that began as an assignment from Fortune magazine to report on the lives of Alabama sharecroppers.
A Death in the Family, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that he worked on for over a decade and that was published posthumously in 1957, recreates in stunningly evocative prose Agee’s childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the upheaval his family experienced after his father’s death in a car accident when Agee was six years old.
This volume also includes The Morning Watch (1951), an autobiographical novella that reflects Agee’s deep involvement with religious questions, and three short stories: “Death in the Desert,” “They That Sow in Sorrow Shall Not Reap,” and the remarkable allegory “A Mother’s Tale.”
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
