Item #705 The Crime of Cuba. Carleton Beals, Walker Evans.
The Crime of Cuba
The Crime of Cuba
The Crime of Cuba

The Crime of Cuba

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1933). First printing. Walker Evans. Hardcover. Octavo. 441 pages + photographic portfolio. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth over boards with silver foil stamped spine and upper board, red endpapers, red topstain. Jacket shows some mild surface rubbing to title block of front panel and minor edge wear.

An expose of the tangled relations and corruption between American capital, Gerardo Machado's administration, and the interwoven policies of the U.S. State Department in the early 1930s.

The stunning photographs by Walker Evans were selected from some 400 taken on a trip to Cuba specifically for this book. Evans met Hemingway while on this trip, spending two weeks with him as his drinking buddy.


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