The Sixties Catalogue

17 J u l y 2 0 2 0 Inscribed By Walker Evans To Poet Richard Eberhart 15. EVANS, Walker. Message from the Interior. New York, 1966. Folio, original gray cloth. $9200. Click for more info First edition of Evans’ striking images of life in the American heartland, inscribed: “To Dick and Betty Eberhart, with gratitude and much affection, from Walker, Hanover, Dec. 1972.” Taken from 1931 to 1962, these photographs provide “emblems of home, possessions, and social status… for posterity’s sake” (Stepan, 72). The recipients of this copy are Pulitzer-Prize-winning Dartmouth poet-in-residence Richard Eberhart and his wife, Betty. Images fine, only the lightest rubbing to extremities of original cloth. A fine inscribed copy. “Evans’ interiors function like landscapes that open up towards other worlds.” —Anna Solal, ASX