Four Early Stories

West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1964.

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. First edition. Collected by Elena Harap and illustrated with intaglio etchings by Keith Achepohl. Quarter morocco and decorative papercovered boards. Worn leather spine split along front joint, musty odor, else a very good copy in a good only unprinted dust jacket with some loss of the darkened and chipped spine . One of 285 copies. Final etching Signed in pencil by the artist. Additionally, laid in is original duplicate of pages 9-10, 15-16, and 39-41 containing another final etching Signed by Achepohl. Laid in a handwritten letter from a poetry collector to a noted bookseller: "George, Here's the Agee announcement copy. Sorry I don't have an extra. Chester Page was very helpful. Thank you. Jack. 3/19/80." The four short stories were originally printed in *The Harvard Advocate*, during Agee's years at Harvard in 1930-1931. A unique copy containing two Signed identical etchings by Achepohl.

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Item #596673 Four Early Stories. James AGEE.
Four Early Stories
Four Early Stories

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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