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[AMERICAN SOUTH – PHOTOGRAPHY]. NIXON, Herman Clarence (1886–1967). Forty Acres and Steel Mules. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Small 4to. Numerous illustrations from photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and others of the Farm Security Administration. Original beige cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (few very tiny chips along edges, else fine). Laid in with a slip from the printers. FIRST EDITION. “[Forty Acres and Steel Mules] is an attempt to interpret the rural South and the village South in the light of the inevitable trend of the time” (from the rear flap). –– [With:] CALDWELL, Erskine and Margaret BOURKE–WHITE. You Have Seen Their Faces. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Small 4to. Numerous illustrations from photographs. Original beige cloth; original price–clipped dust jacket (spine sunned, 2 ½” tear with void to front panel). FIRST EDITION.