Permit Me Voyage

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.

Price: $1,250.00

Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Bookplate of author and longtime Yale English professor William Lyon Phelps on the front pastedown, fine in very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with two shallow chips near the crown. An attractive copy of Agee's fragile first book, a collection of poetry issued in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

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Item #95821 Permit Me Voyage. James AGEE.
Permit Me Voyage

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

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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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