Description: Southern Classics Library leather edition of James Agee and Walker Evans's "Three Tenant Farmers: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," a Limited edition, Reprinted from Houghton-Mifflin by Oxmoor House for Southern Living in 1969. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a 'shadow' where a bookplate was cleanly removed from the inside flyleaf. In 1936 as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal," a young James Agee, "rubbing of Harvard and Exeter, and a hint of family gentility," traveled to Alabama to interview tenant farmers. His clothes were deliberately cheap. Agee was accompanied by Walker Evans, a photographer who was on loan from the Federal Government. For four weeks they photographed and interviewed farm families such as Fred Farvrin Ricketts, a two-mule tenant farmer, aged fifty-four, his wife aged, forty-nine and his children, aged 20, 19, 12, 11, ten, nine, and four. Other families included Thomas Gallatin Woods, George Gudger, Annie Mae Woods Gudger, Charles Boles, Gudger's landlord; T. Hudson Margraves, landlords to Woods and Ricketts; and unpaid agitators: William Blake, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ring Lardner, Jesus Christ, Sigmund Freud, Lonnie Johnson, Irvine Upham, and Others.
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Location: Conroe, Texas
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Birmingham, Alabama
Signed: No
Publisher: Southern Classics Library
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1984
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi
Author: James Agee & Walker Evans
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Alabama tenant farmers: 1930s
Character Family: Thomas Sutpen & Rosa Coldfield
