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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 )

Ny, Usa: Aperture, 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Oblong 4to. Revised And Enlarge Edition. Hardcover With Dj. Over 80 Plates, All One Side Only. Introduction By Jack Kerouac. Interior Clean And Unmarked. Covers With Very Light Stains From Water-Stained Dj.; Dj. With Water Damage To Front Panel, Some Large Closed Tears, Chipped Top Edge And Missing Letter (E) From The At Top, Small Nicks Here And There.

Grossman Publishers, 1969. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Rubbing to extremities, fine in near fine dust jacket with small closed tear and wrinkle to top front edge..

NY: Grove Press. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket; Black cloth cover with gilt spine . lettering; slight toning to endsheets; some of the blk of the phots rubbed . on previous page; slight rubbing to the lettering on the spine ; DJ is no . clipped, minor edge wear; in mylar sleeve; No marks or writing, clean . tight binding;. 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. Eighty three deeply moving and unconventional documentary photos of the 50's in NYC; First published in France in 1958 ; ; 0 pages .

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. First US edition, first printing, entailing the first appearance of Jack Kerouac's poetic introduction constituting his own ode to America. Frank's Les Americains was originally published in France on 15 May 1958 by Robert Delpire as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series. In the French edition Frank's photographs were accompanied by text by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck. In this edition the photos are not accompanied by that text; Kerouac's controversial introduction instead was added which further cemented Frank's position as bête noire of US photography. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, lettering to spine in gilt. With the photographic dust jacket, collage on the back panel designed by Alfred Leslie. Presented in a champagne cloth clamshell box with black sides. 83 full page black and white photogravures by Frank throughout. Light wear to base of spine, unclipped dust jacket… Read More

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