Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction.
New York: The Library of America, [2005]. Hardcover. Edited by Michael Sragow. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, ivory slipcase. 818pp, (5pp). Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in tan satin page marker. Fine/fine. Item #50758
ISBN: 1931082812
A tight and pristine first edition thus (volume 159) of this thick trio of writings, with 64 pages of Walker Evans photographs in this edition. Interesting autograph addition: Agee's autobiographical ""A Death in the Family" was published posthumously in 1957, and in 1960 playwright Tad Mosel penned a stage version retitled "All the Way Home," for which he won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. In 1963 a film version was released, and tipped to an inner flyleaf of this volume on a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card is the bold signature of the sole living cast member: JOHN C. CULLUM signs in blue ballpoint, dating it 20 September 1969 at upper right. Cullum (born 1930) portrays Andrew; many remember him best as tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in the t.v. series "Northern Exposure" 91990-95). These slipcased L. of A. editions precede the dust jacketed version (published without slipcase). Cullum’s original transmittal envelope is laid in, as is theLOA leaflet for this title laid in.
Price: $95.00