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Lot 667

EVANS, Walker (1903?1975). American Photographs. [New York]...

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EVANS, Walker (1903?1975). American Photographs. [New York]: The Museum of Modern Art, [1938]. Square octavo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, one of 5,000 copies printed. With an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Profusely illustrated with black & white photograph reproductions by Evans. Lacking errata slip. Publisher?s black textured cloth ruled in blind, pristine printed spine label, original dust jacket with ?$2.50? on lower front flap (faint uneven toning to jacket); A FINE COPY RARELY SEEN IN THIS CONDITION. Considered to be one of the foremost American photography books and the first to be devoted to the work of a single photographer.