NMLP P-013145 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee and Walker Evans · Houghton Mifflin · 1941

The common version is the 1960 reissue; the 1941 first is genuinely scarce. Distinguish carefully by the 31-photograph block, the silver-stamped black cloth, and the 'First Printing' copyright-page statement.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-013145 for "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and Walker Evans (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013145, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).