Walker Evans. First and Last

Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. First and Last. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First edition. Quarto. 199 (5)pp. Original dustjacket over gray cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover; light gray on spine. Gray endpapers. A selection of distinctive duotone photographs including “… portraits, street scenes and what Hilton Kramer has called Evans’ “special landscape… the objects and structures and surfaces and spaces of American life: in which he saw something poetic, something to be valued and ‘save'” – rooms, roads, churches, banks, shops and signs, all eloquent of the people who created, inhabited or abandoned them.” (Publisher). DJ with wear and creasing along edges and spine; few small stains. Binding with some discoloration at top, lighter at bottom. Blind stamp of library of Michael Levee on front endpaper. Light foxing at top of half-title and title page. Book block slightly waved. DJ and binding in overall good-, interior in good+ to very good condition. g+. Hardcover. (36177) $40