Signed; Evans Walker - Message from the Interior [Association copy inscribed to Bob Bourdon] - 1966

The Eakins Press, New York 1966. Square quarto (360 x 360 mm). 12 black and white photographs, with glassine guards. (Fore-edges lightly yellowed.) Original dark grey linen, spine lettered in white, printed paper label mounted on the front cover (corners lightly rubbed); cloth slipcase.
Provenance: Bob Bourdon (1916-1995), (inscription from Walker Evans). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY EVANS to ski racer and author Bob Bourdon. "These are pictures impelled by a concern too serious, and a love too intense, to permit the overt intrusion of sentiment" (Szarkowski, Introduction).
ref : Auer and Auer, Photobooks, p.455; The Open Book, pp.220-21; Regards à travers le livre 137.