Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, (1974). The uncorrected proof copy, in the form of ringbound galley sheets, printed on rectos only. Edited and introduced by novelist David Madden. Laid in is a copyedited photocopied typescript of what appears to be the jacket text, as well as four 8" x 10" photos of Agee: two alone; one with Delmore Schwartz and Alma Mailman; one with Mia Agee, Charlie Chaplin and Oona Chaplin. Agee was the author of the classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family; he was also the preeminent film critic of the day in the 1940s and the screenwriter for The African Queen. Contributors to this anthology include Robert Fitzgerald, Walker Evans (who collaborated on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men), John Huston (who directed African Queen), Dwight Macdonald, and others. All elements near fine or better. Rare; with the photos and typescript, likely unique. [#019403] SOLD