American Photographs

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Hardcover. VG-/G, foxing to text blocks, light to moderate wear and scuffing/soiling to dust jacket, small tear at top front of dj.. Black boards with gilt spine lettering. White dust jacket with BW photograph and black lettering. 195 pp. BW. Reprint of the original 1938 editon. "Walker Evans' pictorial record of America in the thirties was first published in 1938 and revealed a new master of the camera who expressed the tragic sense and troubled conscience of those years. Reissued in response to many requests, it seems even more important now when period out of which it arose can be see in historical perspective." -Jacket. (Inventory #: 171425)