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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Margaret Bourke-White (photographer) (illustrator). A clean and unmarked dust jacket with mylar cover and copy in excellent condition. Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White. 184 pages.
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You Have Seen Their Faces
Published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1995
ISBN 10: 082031692XISBN 13: 9780820316925
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Bourke-White, Margaret (illustrator). First Thus. Bourke-White's stunning black-and-white photos of "the impoverished victims of the southern system of sharecropping" in the American South in the 1930s are brought to life with text from southern author Caldwell. In 54 numbered pages + unpaginated sections of photos. Orig. published in hardcover in 1937, & in a softcover in 1975, this is a new softcover reprint from 1995, a First Printing. In green decorative wrappers, this 4to is in As New condition: looks brand new & never opened! Completely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked. Virtually flawless! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards toned, some soiling.
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Margaret Bourke-White (Photographer) (illustrator). 54 pp. of text; 56 pp. of black and white photographs, some with multiple photos on a page. Stiff photo-illustrated wraps. Matching photo-illustrated dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Binding is tight and pages clean throughout. Extremities are somewhat rubbed especially at spine ends but not affecting lettering. A little shelf wear and light, general toning to pages. Dust jacket similarly rubbed at extremities with very shallow chips along top of rear paned, spine ends and rear lower corner. 1/2" closed tear to top upper left of front panel. SIGNED by both Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White on title page. Bourke-White also INSCRIBED on title page: "To Hiram/who gave such valuable help, gratefully -- M. B-W." Published in the same year as the hardcover first edition. An extraordinary copy of Bourke-White's most successful single work, a monumental work of photographic art by one of the premier American photographers of the 20th century and of social commentary: " this 'word-and-picture portrait of the share-cropping South' told the truth in both text and image about a reality hidden to most Americans at the time." (Roth, Book of 101 Books, Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century). Other documentaries pairing photographers and writers would follow: An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor in 1939 and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans and James Agee in 1941. Size: Small Quarto. Signed and Inscribed By Authors.
