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(New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1979).. 1979).. Very good. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide] softcover bound in printed black wrappers. The wraps are bumped & lightly rubbed with a few small indentations to the front cover. [12] pages, including inside rear wrap. 8 pages of reproductions of black-and-white photographs by Robert Frank. Very good. <p>An exhibition coinciding with the republication of Frank's "The Americans". The foreword to the catalog is by Paul Katz.<p>Scarce.

STEIDL / NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON. Hardcover. GOOD. NOEAN 0 9783865215840 2008 HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET; MILDLY SOLED AND EDGEWORN DJ & WRAP {TIGHT & CLEAN INTERIOR; RED COLOR TRANSFER FROM WRAP ONTO ENDPAGES} INTRODUCTION BY JACK KEROUAC ( 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ) (NOEAN )

New York: Aperture, Grossman Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. VG- overall light shelfewar to boards and corners, VG inside. Clean, tight, crisp corners and very little wear.. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Unpaginated. Mainly comprised of BW photographs. First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter--cars, jukeboxes and even the road itself that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally and… Read More

Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc, 1978. Third edition. Oversize oblong format. Signed and inscriberd by the author / photographer Robert Frank to Harold Hayes, editor in chief of Esquire magazine from 1961 to 1973 having been handpicked by the magazine’s founder, Arnold Gingrich, as his successor. Inscribed: “For Harold and the New Life in California. Robert, July 23, 1984.” During Hayes’s editorship, the magazine kept pace with the tumultuous sixties with landmark articles, fiction, and essays by the likes of Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Garry Wills, Michael Herr, William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Terry Southern, etc., and was a major influence on a generation of writers. In 1981, Hayes took over as editorial vice president of CBS magazines. He moved west in 1984 to become editor of California magazine, a position he held through 1987. Additionally, in 1984, Robert Frank was commissioned by Harold Hayes, editor of California magazine (a position he held through 1987) to photograph the… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 1959. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 83 unnumbered black and white full-page photos with brief captions on otherwise blank facing pages. Original black cloth. Oblong (21 x 19 cm.). Some of the gilt is gone from lettering on the backstrip which is also a little faded at both ends. A few light marks on front and back cover. No jacket. INSCRIBED in black ink on front free endpaper by Frank ("To Ray of New Haven 1997 Nov 18. This is the PRESENT .. gone Robert Frank"). Classic photographic work. Six page Introduction by Jack Kerouac.

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Oblong small quarto, unpaginated. Mild foxing and a few pieces of non-staining tape on the verso of the dust jacket, reinforcing a few tiny closed tears, otherwise a remarkably fine copy of this foundational volume of 20th century photography, hardly ever found this nice.

N. Y.: Grove Press, (1959). First American edition, preceded by the French edition, which did not include the Kerouac introduction or Frank's textual comments. "The Delpire first edition Les Américains (1958) is more like a sociological study, wherein Frank's photographs appear as illustrations of the probing texts printed on facing pages, gathered by Alain Bosquet from dozens of illustrious writers. . . . When Barney Rosset at Grove Press agreed to publish The Americans in the U.S., Frank pulled out all the text, leaving only blank pages with captions facing the images, mirroring the layout of Evans's American Photographs. . . . The French edition is sociology, the American edition is poetry." - David Levi Strauss, as quoted by Roth, The Book of 101 Books, p. 150. A few pieces of non-staining tape inside the dust jacket, reinforcing a few tiny closed tears, otherwise a remarkably fine copy. Oblong 4to, original cloth, dust jacket. A few pieces of non-staining tape inside the dust jacket,… Read More