Search Results: Message From the Interior by Walker Evans

New York: The Eakins Press, 1966. Paperback. Fair wraps, Good interior (Ex-Library with white sticker on front cover and inside rear cover, and associated markings; wraps are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip has been almost completely worn away; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean with some light toning around the edges; textblock is solid.). Oversized black wraps with mounted white title card; 32 unnumbered pages; chiefly illustrations. Contents include: Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962 -- Scarborough, New York, 1931 -- The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935 -- The Farmer of Somerstown Road, near Ossining, New York, 1931 -- The Church Organ, rural Alabama, 1936 -- Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1959 -- East 120th Street, New York City, 1961 -- The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958 -- Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936 -- Child's Bedroom, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951 -- Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953 -- The Ringling… Read More

The black covers are worn and chipped at the edges and along the spine. Inside the text and 12 photos are fine, with the original glassine sheets protecting the photos. Oversized book about 13 x 13"(RR203)

The Eakins Press. Good+. 1966. Softcover. Large square flexible card softbound covers. There is some wear to the edges and corners. A couple of inches of the paper at the bottom of the spine is torn. Beautiful photographs throughout, each with a glassine tissue guard. Measures 14.25 inches high by 14 inches wide. .

Eakins Press, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Interior photographs fine. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Eakins Press, 1966. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. black wrappers, front cover paper label. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery -- frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate -- is unchallengly his own." A few chips to wrappers, interior bright and clean.

Eakins Press, 1966. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. VG dark grey boards with white lettering along spine; slight shelf wear. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Unpaginated. Printed by Eakins Press 1966. Afterword by John Szarkowski. The 12 plates are tissued. 14.25x14.5" All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

New York: The Eakins Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine, covered in the original glassine with some chips. Dark grey cloth with white ink lettering on the spine and a paste-down on the front panel. Square and firmly bound, onionskin paper protecting the photographs, clean internally. A collection of twelve Evans photographs that, according to John Szarkowski, "have helped define the American's sense of his past and his problem.

New York: The Eakins Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York, The Eakins Press, 1966. Large square quarto (370 × 365 mm), 32 pages with 12 full-page photogravure plates with tissue-guards. Cloth lettered on the spine, with a large paper title-label on the front cover; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities; top edge and cloth hinges a little foxed; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned at the edges; tissue-guards uniformly lightly tanned; initials and date (LC, 1975) on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. Twelve 'interiors', ranging from sharecropping in Louisiana and Alabama during the Great Depression to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts during the 1950s and 1960s.

New York: Eakins Press, 1966. A fine copy in cloth boards with printed label to front panel.. First Edition. Square folio. Twelve full-page gravure photographs taken between 1936 and 1962, separated by tissue guards. The images embody Evans' unadorned vision of the American vernacular; simply and beautifully printed.

New York: Eakins Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark gray basket weave cloth, front cover paper label. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 36 cm. 12 full page photogravures with tissue guards printed recto only. In the afterword by John Szarkowski, he notes, "Evans style seems as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery -- frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate -- is unchallengly his own." Very slight rubbing to extremities.

New York, The Eakins Press, 1966. . First edition; square folio (360 x 355 mm, 14¼ x 14 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, New Jersey with glassine leaves, afterword by John Szarkowski; tan endleaves, grey mottled cloth-covered boards, printed title label mounted on front, titles stamped in white on spine, fine; [32]pp. These twelve photographs of domestic interiors are richly suggestive of the lives of those who live or lived in them. In the afterword, John Szarkowski describes Evans' style as seeming 'as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery–frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate–is unchallengeably his own. This poised containment of form matches the content of the work, for these are pictures impelled by a concern too serious, and a love too intense, to permit the overt intrusion of sentiment.' Regards à travers Le Livre 137; The Open Book pp220-1.

NY: Eakins Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Evans, Walker. Square folio, 12 gravure plates with tissue guards. Grey cloth, titled in white ink on the spine with a printed paper label on front cover. A fine, as new copy.

New York: The Eakins Press.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Close to fine in dark grey cloth with title label on front cover, without dust jacket as issued. (Corner tip of one tissue guard folded. Trace of slight rubbing to edges. ) (unpaginated) Folio. (13" X 23") Showcases 12 large sheet-fed gravure images in rich black & white tones, each protected by tissue guards. ; 13" X 23" .

Eakins Press, 1966-01-01. First Edition. Paperback. Acceptable. Signed. [Association Copy] Inscribed by Walker Evans to Alan Trachtenberg, "To Alan Trachtenberg, From Walker Evans, affectionately, New Haven, 11/23/71." Softcover. Bound in publisher's wraps. Limited dampstaining to end pages, but still attractive internally. Plates and text clean. [7] pages, 12 photographs with original glassine guards; 36.5 x 35 cm. Hasselblad 220. <br> List of photos: 1. Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962; 2. Scarborough, New York, 1931; 3. The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935; 4. The Farmer of Somerstown Road, Near Ossining, New York, 1931; 5. The Church Organ, Rural Alabama, 1936, 6. Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1956; 7. East 120th Street, New York City, 1961; 8. The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958; 9. Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936; 10. The Child's Room, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951; 11. Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953; 12.… Read More

Eakins Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1966. Hardcover. Very slight rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Slight discoloration to portions of boards (hard to see) . ; Briefly inscribed and beautifully signed in fountain pen by Evans on front free endpaper. Book contains full page b/w photos, each with a tissue guard. Due to size, ships within US only. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 32 pp; Book stored in upstairs TV cabinet. .

[New York]: The Eakins Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Grey cloth, lettering stamped in white on spine, printed paper label on front board; square folio (14.25 x 14.5 inches); contains 12 full-page photogravures with tissue-guards. Inscribed by the photographer on the FFEP: "Marc Mayer / from an admirer / Walker Evans." Bottom corner bumped, resulting in slight wrinkle throughout text block; else fine. A nice, bright copy.

New York: The Eakins Press. Fine. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Folio 13" - 23" tall; Very large format, square folio in publisher's heavy grey linen with paper title label to cover board and title lettering in white to spine. Very warmly inscribed to the front endpage; "Bernard, an interior chap / Love / Walker / 9/1/1966." Splendid copy with sharp edges and crisp title lettering at spine; title label unblemished and uniformly bright. Beautifully printed (photogravure process) photographs; each has an unmarred heavy onion skin tissue guard. Publisher's portrait (promotional? ) of Evans laid in at front along with a few pages of obituary clippings and biographical material. Only a hint of shelf rub to the lower front tips and tail. Lovely copy of the very impressive book; signed. About Fine. (Given the warmth of the inscription, it seems likely the book was inscribed to Evans' longtime friend, Bernard H. Haggin. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Eakins Press, 1966. First edition, first printing. Light rubbing to edges and spine tips with a tiny bit of fraying to one corner, near fine to fine in custom mylar cover.. Gray cloth with paper title label to front panel. 14.25 x 14.25 inches. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Anita Ventura with best wishes, Walker Evans". Anita Ventura was founding curator of photography at the Stanford University Museum of Art.