Americans by Robert Frank, First Edition (66 results)

Condition: very good, very good. First Printing. 25 cm, 272, publisher's ephemera laid in.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8 by 11 inch photographic invitation card to the opening of this seminal exhibit, 4pp.front and back with photo illus, fine.(VV1/1).

Condition: New. 2024. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frank, Robert (photographs) (illustrator). First Thus. Very good+ in original wraps, small stain to spine, some yellowing of wraps. 176p., b&w photography by the American master. Great introductory essay by Jack Kerouac. "That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1st edition thus. Paperback. Minor wear to wrappers, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Pantheon Edition, 1986. Good condition. Some wear and scuff marks on dust jacket, as well as a small tear to the jacket near the top of the spine. One loose page, which is also ripped (pictured).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Scalo Edition. 179pp. Black pictorial, stiff wraps.Light wear to the corner tips, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. "In this volume of 83 deeply moving and unconventional photographs, Robert Frank portrays the shops, funeral parlors, and Fourth of July jamborees, of picnics, newsstands, crap tables, cocktail parties, jam sessions, and the drive-in movies. Here is the face of America illuminated by an unusual talent" Size: Oblong 9 1/4" x 8 1/2".

Paper. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First softcover edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Scalo First Edition statement on copyright page - beautiful reprint of one of the classics of photography. 179 pages, excellent b + w plates throughout. Outer page edges are bright white. Some light rubbing, scratching to the jacket. Very nice in protective mylar sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Robert Frank (illustrator). First Edition. 2009. xxii, 374pp. "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 his 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 linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was 50 years ago. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book's construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country on a Guggenheim grant in 1955-1956. Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of The Americans in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt and others. The 83 original photographs from The Americans are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of The Americans, bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography. This richly illustrated paperback edition of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" contains several engaging essays by curator Sarah Greenough that explore the roots of this seminal book, Frank's travels on a Guggenheim fellowship, the sequencing of The Americans and the book's impact on his later career. In addition, essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Michel Frizot and Luc Sante offer focused analyses of Frank's relationship with Louis Faurer, Edward Steichen, Gotthard Schuh, Walker Evans, Robert Delpire and Jack Kerouac, while Philip Brookman writes about his work with Frank on several exhibitions in the last 30 years. This paperback edition also reproduces many of Frank's earlier photographic sequences, as well as all of the photographs in The Americans and selected later works. Show less" Minor bump to bottom of spine and a slight crease to top outer corner of front cover. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions. PLEASE NOTE: heavy book so extra will be needed for shipping to non-UK customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Scalo editon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. As new. Still shrinkwrapped.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 506 pages. An expanded edition of this catalog. Published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition. Features text by Sarah Greenough, Stuart Alexander, Philip Brookman, Michel Frizot, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Luc Sante, and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Includes 168 tritones, 210 duotones, and 114 color images and features all of the images from Frank's seminal book "The Americans" along with contact sheets and variations. A clean near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket and with a very good plus obi that has some creasing and minor wear. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition thus hardcover, first printing. Black cloth, deep gray lettering. Jacket fine. Slight crimp bottom at spine. All photographs taken 1955 / 1956. Book design by Robert Frank, Gerhard Steidl, Claas Moller. Unpaginated. M06070.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Revised Edition. 7.25 x 8.25 inches. Unpaginated. Photographic wraps. Creased along spine, soiling, edge-wear, small square of discoloration to rear wrap from removed sticker. Good.

Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good -; Small oblong softcover. First Revised edition and First U. S. softcover edition 1968. Condition is Very Good- with light soiling to covers, faint crease to the spine and slightly bumped corners. Faint sticker shadow on ffep. Photos upon request. Trade Paperback.

First edition thus. Oblong hardcover. A larger and more accessible sized version of Frank's seminal first book. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Simply put, this is one of the most important photography books and its influence can't be overstated. A very near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of this classic. (Parr & Badger 247; Roth 150-151).

Oblong. Printed wrappers. First revised and enlarged edition, including all 83 of Frank's seminal images and Kerouac's introduction that was included in the first American edition. With the usual Grossman Publishers' label on the rear panel. Crease along spine, some minor soiling to wrappers, internally fine.

Condition: Wie neu. 12. 180 S. 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 eighty-three 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 mattercars, jukeboxes, and even the road itselfthat 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 linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was fifty-six years ago. - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 20.96 cm x 2.54 cm x 18.42 cm.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket, with the publisher's original red wraparound band still present, lightly chipped at the folds. Else fine.Catalogue for a 2009 exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. 4to (506 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs).

hardcover. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). Revised ed. edition. Oblong 8vo, First printing of the revised and enlarged edition of 1969 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Fine copy in very good dust jacket.

First Revised and Enlarged Edition. Wrappered Issue. Small oblong quarto (21cm x 18.25cm); glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; [4],vi,[182]pp; illus. Mild surface wear, touch of dust-soil to wrappers, with a hint of foxing to text edges, and a sticker from Grossman Publishers at lower rear wrapper; Very Good+ to Near Fine. "In The Americans Frank has given us a vision of the United States that is as true or untrue as we care to make it. What is certain is that it changed the face of photography in the documentary mode. It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers who were not fooled by the sanctimony of 'The Family of Man,' and it paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience" (PARR & BADGER, Vol.1, p.247). CHARTERS B10.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Fine. Robert Frank (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing 2009 , Illustrated soft cover in French wrap , 374 page book with black & white photo illustrations . A large book on Frank work and getting scarce in this condition . Condition : Very Fine with the lightest of shelf ware . Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

hardcover. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). Revised ed. edition. Oblong 8vo, First printing of the revised and enlarged edition of 1969 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frank, Robert (illustrator). 1st Edition. FIRST REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, 1969, FIRST PRINTING. Photographic illustrations including movie stills by Robert Frank; publisher's black cloth - contents bright and clean, photographic dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped, superficial rubbing and missing a piece on top but overall bright and very good. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. A great copy of this important photographic work by Robert Frank, heralded by some as the 'graphic spokesman of the Beat Generation'. Originally published in a French language edition in Paris, it was republished for the American market in 1959 by Grove who commissioned Jack Kerouac to write the introduction. This enlarged edition has a number of additional photographs. An important book for many reasons not least of which being the attention to format and page layout provided by the photographer himself.

First edition thus. Small oblong hardcover. The first revised edition of Frank's iconic book. Features the brilliant introduction by Jack Kerouac which was in the Grove edition but not the Delpire version. Includes the full complement of black and white images from the original edition but also with the first appearance of black and white stills from Frank's movies. A near fine copy in black cloth boards with a small former owner signature to the front pastedown and in a fair only dust jacket with some small chips, and long tears and splits and extensive tape repairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rober Frank (illustrator). 1st. Edition 1959 , Revised and Enlarge Edition 1969. Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, un - paged . Illustrated with 83 full page black & white photo plates by Frank. Condition : Near Fine with light edge ware to the boards . DJ is Very Good with rubs and lighjt edge chips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Wie neu. Aperture, New York. 1978. Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, page 150/151. Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 247. Hasselblad Center, page 176/177. 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 375. Very early edition of this photobook classic (third edition after 1958 and 1969). Hardcover with dustjacket. 295 x 240 mm. 184 pages. Black and white plates. Photos: Robert Frank. Text. Jack Kerouac. Text in english. Condition: Inside fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing; light trace of use. Dustjacket with marginal yellowing; complete with no tears and with no missing parts. Overall fine condition!***************Aperture, New York. 1978. Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, Seite 150/151. Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, Seite 247. Hasselblad Center, Seite 176/177. 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, Seite 375. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. 295 x 240 mm. 184 Seiten. Schwarz-weiss Fotos. Fotos: Robert Frank. Text: Jack Kerouac. Text in englischer Sprache. Das Buch ist in allen gängigen Publikationen über Fotobücher erwähnt und gilt als das wichtigste und einflußreichste Fotobuch der Welt und aller Zeiten. Zustand: Buch sauber ohne Besitzvermerke und ohne Stockflecken. Schutzumschlag minimal gilb, aber vollständig ohne Risse und ohne Fehlstellen. Insgesamt guter Zustand! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

Condition: Sehr gut. Steidl, Gottingen. 2008. Chinese edition. First Steidl printing of this title. First time, that all negatives are printed in the complete size. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil. Most important photo book of all time: Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, page 150/151. Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 247. Hasselblad Center, page 176/177. 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 375. Hardcover with dustjacket. 215 x 195 mm. 180 pages. 83 tritone plates. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Text in chinese. Perfect condition! Collector`s copy! "The publication of a new edition of Robert Frank s masterpiece was the artbook publishing event of 2008. The worldwide release of the book on May 15, 2008, was accompanied by extensive media coverage, lauch events, exhibitions, in-store co-ops and both trade and consumer advertising. There has been no new edition of The Americans available since October 2005 and this new Steidl edition of the book, which was made under the guidance of Robert Frank, is an essential purchase for any serious photpgraphy fan. Steidl translated the original Kerouac text for this edition in Mandarin." (from the publisher)***************Steidl, Göttingen. 2008. Chinesische Ausgabe. Neuauflage in Kooperation mit dem Künstler: erstmals von Steidl gedruckt, erstmals alle Negative in der vollen Größe abgedruckt. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweisst in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Das Buch ist in allen gängigen Publikationen über Fotobücher erwähnt und gilt als das wichtigste und einflussreichste Fotobuch der Welt und aller Zeiten: Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, Seite 150/151. Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, Seite 247. Hasselblad Center, Seite 176/177. 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, Seite 375. Hardback mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 215 x 195 mm. 180 Seiten. 83 Abbildungen in Tritone. Vorwort von Jack Kerouac. Text in chinesisch. Perfekter Zustand! Sammler-Exemplar! zh Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. First Impression. A Fine copy in jet black cloth stamped in dark pastel blue at spine, in a Fine dustwrapper, with publisher's red wrap-around band. Originally published first in the U.S. by Grove Press [1959], this is a faithful reprint which includes the Introduction by Jack Kerouac. One of the famous photo books of all time, a selection of candid images, whose sad drabness captures with an elegaic gravity the ordinary life of mid-century America. Printed in Germany. Q13847.