Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments

(New York): McDowell, Obolensky, (1958).

Price: $30.00

Hardcover. Later printing. Tall octavo. 432pp. Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, and with black and white plates. Very near fine in a soiled and worn, good only dust jacket with shallow edge loss and several small interior tape reinforcements. "In my opinion, [Agee's column in *The Nation*] is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism today" (W. H. Auden, from "A Letter to the Editors of *The Nation*, printed as an introduction and on the jacket).

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Item #582093 Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments. James AGEE.

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.

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