You Have Seen Their Faces

New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 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. . Signed and Inscribed By Authors. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Margaret Bourke-White (Photographer). Small Quarto.