The Harvard Freshman Red Book 1932

1932.

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. First and only edition. Quarto. 331pp. Red leatherette with gilt letter with ink owner name on front pastedown inked over. Some rubbing at the corner, wear along the spine and spine ends, and a tender front hinge, very good. The 1932 freshman year book featuring a photo of future Pulitzer Prize-winning author and film critic, James Agee, who was apparently a member of both the drama and glee clubs. Agee would eventually became editor-in-chief of *The Harvard Advocate* and deliverer the class ode at the commencement.

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Item #372407 The Harvard Freshman Red Book 1932. James AGEE.
The Harvard Freshman Red Book 1932
The Harvard Freshman Red Book 1932

James Agee
birth name: James Agee
born: 11/27/1909
died: 5/16/1955
nationality: USA

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Biography

American poet, novelist, and one of the most influential American film critics in the 1930s and '40s.more

Collecting tips:

Agee's first book Permit Me, Voyage (1934), is a moderately expensive book, and scarce in fine condition, but like much poetry, doesn't exactly fly off the shelf. His most eagerly sought after title, a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans, is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which is nearly impossible to find with an unfaded spine. A relatively inexpensive alternative is the 1960 reprint that adds additional Evans photographs. His posthumously published novel A Death in the Family (1957) won the Pulitzer Prize, and while published in substantial numbers is becoming very scarce in the right condition, as the blue jacket rubs easily. The book has a number of issue points, but if the title page isn't printed in blue, look no further. Agee didn't sign many books, so finding signed copies should be considered a coup, unless its one of the posthumously published ones.

We also offer a comprehensive James Agee Bibliography and Price Guide.more