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Lot 116

[AMERICAN SOUTH ? PHOTOGRAPHY]. NIXON, Herman Clarence (188...

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[AMERICAN SOUTH ? PHOTOGRAPHY]. NIXON, Herman Clarence (1886?1967). Forty Acres and Steel Mules. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938. Small 4to. Numerous illustrations from photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and others of the Farm Security Administration. Original beige cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (few very tiny chips along edges, else fine). Laid in with a slip from the printers. FIRST EDITION. ?[Forty Acres and Steel Mules] is an attempt to interpret the rural South and the village South in the light of the inevitable trend of the time? (from the rear flap). ?? [With:] CALDWELL, Erskine and Margaret BOURKE?WHITE. You Have Seen Their Faces. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Small 4to. Numerous illustrations from photographs. Original beige cloth; original price?clipped dust jacket (spine sunned, 2 ?? tear with void to front panel). FIRST EDITION.