EVANS (WALKER) American Photographs. With an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WALKER TO JAMES STERN, 'For Jimmy Stern with love and admiration and gratitude for more than I can express Walker Evans' on the front free endpaper, 87 plates, without errata slip, publisher's cloth with printed spine label, spine ends rubbed, dust-jacket (soiled with some fingering marks, small losses at spine ends) [The Photobook, vol. I, pp.114-5], small square 4to, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, [1938]; Many Are Called. With an Introduction by James Agee, FIRST EDITION, 89 plates, errata slip, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (frayed at head of spine) [The Photobook, vol. I, p.253], 4to, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1966--LEVITT (HELEN) A Way of Seeing. Photographs of New York... with an Essay by James Agee, FIRST EDITION, plates, publisher's cloth (slightly faded at lower margin of both covers), dust-jacket (slightly creased at margins), oblong 4to, New York, Viking Press, 1965 (3) Footnotes: A POIGNANT PRESENTATION COPY OF American Photographs, a 'great work of art... [which] holds a well-deserved place at the top of the pantheon' (The Photobook), inscribed by Walker Evans to the Anglo-Irish writer James Stern to whom he had been introduced by James Agee. Evans took several portraits of Stern (two of which are held at the MET), and Stern in later life remembered that he and Evans had 'first seen Atget's prints at Berenice Abbott's apartment in New York in 1929, nearly at the beginning of Evans' career' (D.G. Galenson, Innovators, 2009). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing