Evans, Walker and Wright Morris. New Directions in Prose & Poetry, 1940. (Author copy)

New Directions, 1940, Edited by James Laughlin. Includes preview excerpts of James Agee & Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with four illustrations by Evans, and Wright Morris, The Inhabitants, with 15 photos.  Other contributions by Paul Goodman, Weldon Kees, Alfred Young Fisher, Katherine Anne Porter, George Orwell, Parker Tyler, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Frank Lloyd Wright (with illustrations of Taliesin West), John Peale Bishop,  et al. Also a large section on Surrealism with contributions by Surrealist artists and writers, such as Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Andre Breton, Nicholas Calas, Paul Magritte, Pablo PIcasso, Tristan Tzara, and many others. 579 pages.  This copy belonged to one of the authors, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. (1910–1989), American architect, lecturer, and author, with his card laid in and his revisions in pencil to his essay. “The New Design and Public Acceptance.”  (Kauffman's parents lived in the Frank Lloyd Wright designed house, Falling Water.) Very good in hardcover, beige cloth, spine darkened. Custom made 4-mil polyester jacket.