Published by Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co,, 1935
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. NICE as pictured a First Edition as a good condition hardcover, black cloth. Red free endpaper clipped, address or price removal. bright silver spine, splash at top rear edge, causing a greyed area top red top stain , some bleeding last 170 pages, Miraculously, Walker Evans photos not affected . no jacket Text by Beals without chapter "Aftermath." Includes 31 aquatone illustrations from photographs by Walker Evans at the end.
Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1935
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Fourth printing. Hardcover. 467 pages. Text by Beals with a new chapter "Aftermath." Includes 31 aquatone illustrations from photographs by Walker Evans at the end. A very good copy in cloth boards with some minor wear and a small portion of the dust jacket flap affixed to the rear pastedown. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Walker Evans (illustrator). With photographs by Walker Evans. 3rd printing. Covers have some shelfwear.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walker Evans (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Very good or better. Clean and bright. Pencil signature, else unmarked. 31 aquatone illustrations from photographs by Walker Evans.
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1933
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walker Evans (illustrator). No markings. Light general wear to covers. Photographs by Walker Evans.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walker Evans (illustrator). 1st ed. index, 441p. plus 31 black and white photos by Walker Evans at the end. Original black cloth. 23 cm. A few light scratches in upper right corner of front cover. Ends of backstrip rubbed. No jacket.
Published by J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1933
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. 441 Pp. + 31 Full Page Photographic Plates At End With Text On Facing Pages. Black Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing. Near Fine, All Silver Complete And Brilliant, No Marks.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walker Evans (illustrator). 1st ed. index, 441p. plus 31 black and white photos by Walker Evans at the end. Original black cloth. 23 cm. Two raised diagonal creases marks visible near top of backstrip (which also has some modest spotting). Two gentle cover bumps. No jacket.
Published by Lippincott, 1933
Seller: AwardWinningBooks, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Assumed first printing, no additional printings stated. Board rub, lacks jacket. 31 Walker Evans photos in rear.
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1933
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Walker Evans (illustrator). Original publishers boards with silver titles and design. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. 31 plates, 28 from photographs by Walker Evans.
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1933
Seller: William Gregory, Books & Photographs, Kenosha, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1933. (8.75 x 6 in, 22.5 x 15.3 cm). First edition, 3rd printing, curiously wearing a 2nd printing dust jacket (stated). 31 black and white "aquatone" (photogravure) photographs by Walker Evans made in May and June of 1933. Each plate numbered and titled on the opposing otherwise blank page. From Gilles Mora and John T. Hill's "Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye" (Abrams, 1993, p. 78) "The book, to be called 'The Crime of Cuba', was intended as a violent criticism of the North American capitalist interests that protected a regime of terror established on the island by the dictator Gerardo Machado. / Beals and Evans met only once. The only condition that the photographer insisted upon was the right to select the images to be published and their order of appearance. / Offered hospitality by Ernest Hemingway, Evans reacted with high enthusiasm to the experience of a totally new culture and visual environment. / The thirty-one photographs reproduced give only a limited view of the full reportage. With their human dimension, they counterbalance the strictly economic or historic character of the facts related by the author of the book, Carleton Beals. / In spite of his short stay in Cuba, the pictures contain the best of Walker Evans and constitute a seminal work." Original cloth covered boards with original printed and photographically illustrated dust jacket adhered to the covers and paste-down endpapers (topstain a bit dull, previous price and owner signature dated 1935 in ink on ffep. Internally clean and quite nice (beginning with the 8th photograph plate and through to the rear free endpaper the fore-edge of each page is lightly creased, effecting each full bleed image, but not so much as to distract the eye to a great degree. This issue increases to the last, that measuring 7mm in from the edge and 50mm in length). Original dust jacket compete and presentable (small .5cm circular loss to upper near fore-edge, a few short closed tears, minimal chipping at heel and crown, laminate loss and lifting in areas). Please note: the dust jacket is attached to the book covers and endpapers. [Reference: Roger Kingston, Walker Evans in Print: An Illustrated Bibliography, 1995, No. 5, p. 21.] Despite the lengthy list of faults, a handsome copy with the rather uncommon dust jacket.
Published by Philadelphia & London J.B. Lippincott Company, 1933
First Edition
First edition; 8vo (218 x 145 mm, 8½ x 5¾ in); black-and-white photographs printed in aquatone, red topstain; red endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, spine and upper board stamped in silver, head bumped, photo-illustrated price-clipped dust-jacket, silver and black, light wear to extremities, lightly soiled, nicked with small chips and light creasing to head and edges, Gas Company leaflet laid in, near-fine in a very good dust-jacket; [ii], 441, [1], [64]pp. These photographs represent the only period Walker Evans spent working as a photographer outside the United States. Carleton Beals wrote The Crime of Cuba out of anger for the political situation in Cuba and disapproval of the way America managed its relations with Latin American countries. He originally wanted his book to be illustrated with news photographs of demonstrations and violence on the streets of Cuba. Literary agent Ernestine Evans (no relation) suggested to Lippincott's art department that instead, they send Walker Evans to Havana, and they agreed. Few of Evans's photographs could be said to show the oppression or poverty Beals writes about; Evans later claimed not to have read the book, apparently treating the project as an entirely commercial venture. However, he himself selected and sequenced the final thirty-one photographs, inserting a few pictures from news agencies to supplement the photography section, a signal of Evans's growing interest in anonymous imagery; he was a regular visitor, with Ben Shahn, to the New York Public Library's picture collection. Regards à travers Le Livre 57; Auer Collection p205.