Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans.
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- Houghton Mifflin, 1941
The first edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee was published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. We track 2 editions.
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Who published the first edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men?
The first edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, Walker Evans was published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in 1941.
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We track 2 editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.