Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

New York: Fordham University Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2005). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean as-new copy, with just a touch of surface wear to the jacket]. The first stand-alone publication of an essay on the borough, written by Agee on assignment for Fortune magazine in 1939, but rejected by its editors and unpublished until it appeared in Esquire magazine in 1968. Jonathan Lethem, in his Preface, calls it "this astonishing secret text which like the heart of the borough itself throbs in raw shambolic splendor, never completely discovered, impossible to mistake." .