Americans by Robert Frank, Signed (24 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 181 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. 1978 Aperture edition. [SIGNED] Inscribed in black by Robert Frank to the previous owner on the front free endpaper. There is a typed and dated note laid in from Museum of Fine Arts, Houston curator Anne Wilkes Tucker to the previous owner, implying that the book was in thanks for his efforts to make an acquisition for the museum of photographs by Robert Frank.There is some tanning to the dustjacket, particularly along the spine, but the jacket is NOT price-clipped, with only the faintest degree of shelfwear. The boards are equally fine, with only minimal wear, and (aside from aforementioned inscription) there are no internal markings. While not a first edition, still an early edition of an iconic photo book. Bound in black cloth covered boards and issued with an illustrated paper dustjacket. Inscribed by the Artist. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. Warmly inscribed by Robert Frank and dated 1980. This is a fine copy with no obvious flaws in a non price clipped dust jacket which has no tears or damage. Scans available on request. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The Scalo edition of Frank's landmark work The Americans. Boldly signed by Frank on the front free endpage and scarce thus. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in publisher's black cloth in fine unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Noted as third Scalo edition, 1998. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: very Fine. The Americains This 1993 edition from cornerhouse is a quality reprint of this iconic edition. Signed on the inside title page by Robert Frank, Books signed by Robert Frank are as rare as hens teeth, and seldom seen. With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a grant from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph its society at all strata. He took his family along with him for part of his series of road trips over the next two years, during which time he took 28,000 shots. Only 83 of those were finally selected by him for publication in The Americans. Frank's journey was not without incident. While driving through Arkansas, Frank was arbitrarily thrown in jail after being stopped by the police; elsewhere in the South, he was told by a sheriff that he had an hour to leave town. Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels. Kerouac immediately told Frank 'Sure I can write something about these pictures, and he contributed the introduction to the U.S. edition of The Americans. Frank also became lifelong friends with Allen Ginsberg, and was one of the main visual artists to document the Beat subculture, which felt an affinity with Frank's interest in documenting the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences. The irony that Frank found in the gloss of American culture and wealth over this tension gave Frank's photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques. This divergence from contemporary photographic standards gave Frank difficulty at first in securing an American publisher. Les Americains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, and finally in 1959 in the United States by Grove Press, where it initially received substantial criticism. Popular Photography, for one, derided his images as meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness. Though sales were also poor at first, Kerouac's introduction helped it reach a larger audience because of the popularity of the Beat phenomenon. Over time and through its inspiration of later artists, The Americans became considered a seminal work in American photography and art history, and the work with which Frank is most clearly identified. In 1961, Frank received his first individual show, entitled Robert Frank: Photographer, at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also showed at MOMA in New York in 1962.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). As new copy in like dust jacket with original red wraparound band. The Expanded Edition that accompanied an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book was signed by photographer Robert Frank on the title page after an interview he gave with Sarah Greenough, the exhibition's curator, who also signed the book. Photographs of Robert Frank, his wife and Sarah Greenough leaving the National Gallery and of Robert Frank signing the book are included. A wonderful opportunity to own this signed landmark publication. Signed by Illustrator(s).

First edition of the photographer's classic work. Oblong quarto, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Thompson Robert Frank." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the spine. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. Uncommon in this condition and signed. Jack Kerouac wrote in his preface of The Americans, "Robert Frank he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes." Frank's Américains eventually achieved legendary status as "the most renowned photobook of all It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece" (Parr & Badger I:247). "From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters 'With these photographs,' he later wrote, 'I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal' Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography" (Roth, 150).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Grove Press First U.S. edition 1959 of The Americans. Signed in blue ink by Robert Frank. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on the spine. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Unpaginated (180 pp.), with 83 black-and-white gravure plates. 7-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches. From a private collection. This book will be offered in the near future at a major photography fair and removed for online purchase during that time. Condition: Dust jacket: a few small foxing spots on the right side front jacket, two small edge tears on the front jacket with missing fragments , very small fragment missing upper left jacket spine, some toning to the dust jacket spine, indented area lower right front jacket, back jacket has three small closed tears and area on top where there had been a fold. Book: upper right front board corner bumped - small crease upper right edge on first fourteen pages, two small dark markings on fore-edge front corners. Light paper edge toning inside book - better than in most Grove Press copies I have seen. No tears or markings inside the book, beautiful photo gravures, solid binding, well preserved gold lettering on the spine. (To supplement the detailed condition description, extra photos are available to evaluate the dust jacket and book). For serious inquiries provenance details can be provided. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), Michel and Michèle Auer, Collection M. + M. Auer - une histoire de la photographie. (Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions M+M, 2003), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] From Martin Parr and Gerry Badger: "What has made this arguably the most renowned photobook of all? Firstly and perhaps most importantly, the majority of the pictures are instantly memorable, 'dry, lean, and transparent,' as John Szarkowski has said of them, yet also weighty and profound, even heartstopping.Secondly, there is the sequencing. Four 'chapters', introduced in each case by the Stars-and-Stripes, have an internal logic, complexity and irresistible flow that moves from the relatively upbeat pictures at the beginning to a final image of tenderness and exhaustion on a road that has only one end. Ideas ebb and flow, are introduced, discarded, recapitulated, transfigured, transposed, played off and piled up against each other with the exuberant energy and precise articulation of a Charlie Parker saxophone solo. There are numerous themes, many moods --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. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Grove Press First U.S. edition 1959 of The Americans. No dust jacket. Signed in blue ink by Robert Frank. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on the spine. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Unpaginated (180 pp.), with 83 black-and-white gravure plates. 7-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches. From a private collection. Condition: Small amount of black cloth rubbed off front lower bottom edges and on end lower spine (see photo), some wear to the gold lettering (see photo), one small foxing spot inside front endpaper, some overall edge tanning to the inside book pages, tanning and some dust residue to fore-edges of the book. Solid binding, no tears, markings or damage to the inside pages and gravures. (For interested buyers, extra photos available on request). [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), Michel and Michèle Auer, Collection M. + M. Auer - une histoire de la photographie. (Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions M+M, 2003), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] From Martin Parr and Gerry Badger: "What has made this arguably the most renowned photobook of all? Firstly and perhaps most importantly, the majority of the pictures are instantly memorable, 'dry, lean, and transparent,' as John Szarkowski has said of them, yet also weighty and profound, even heartstopping.Secondly, there is the sequencing. Four 'chapters', introduced in each case by the Stars-and-Stripes, have an internal logic, complexity and irresistible flow that moves from the relatively upbeat pictures at the beginning to a final image of tenderness and exhaustion on a road that has only one end. Ideas ebb and flow, are introduced, discarded, recapitulated, transfigured, transposed, played off and piled up against each other with the exuberant energy and precise articulation of a Charlie Parker saxophone solo. There are numerous themes, many moods --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. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece.". Signed by Author(s).

First 50th Anniversary edition of the photographer's classic work. Oblong quarto, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Robert Frank on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Uncommon signed. Jack Kerouac wrote in his preface of The Americans, "Robert Frank he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes." Frank's Américains eventually achieved legendary status as "the most renowned photobook of all It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's masterpiece" (Parr & Badger I:247). "From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters 'With these photographs,' he later wrote, 'I have attempted to show a cross-section of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal' Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography" (Roth, 150).

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF FRANK'S MASTERPIECE, possibly the most influential of all American photobooks, SIGNED BY FRANK on half-title. With introduction by Jack Kerouac. In 1955, Frank "was at work on a project supported but the Guggenheim Foundation that was to present a radically different vision of America and the world. Frank's photographs--taken during travels across the United States in 1955 and 1956--would arguably become the most influential achievement of the entire postwar period in terms of their impact on photographers, artists, and writers. â â "Frank's book was called, simply, The Americans. It was first published in France in 1958 and then in America in 1959 with a preface by Frank's friend, writer Jack Kerouac. Frank depicted America as a society with a deep-rooted sense of psychological isolation, what sociologist David Riesman called 'the lonely crowd.' America for Frank was a melancholy, even bleak or frightening place marred by racial and class divisions and enlivened only occasionally by a glimpse of lyrical sadness or joy. Frank's photographs, shot in black and white with a 35mm camera, seemed deliberately casual. The lighting and composition of the images were highly unconventional compared to most photojournalism or fine art photography at the time. Frank was after something more personal, more immediate and spontaneous" (Goldberg and Silberman, American Photography).â â "Even the design of the text was somewhat revolutionary. Reflecting Walker Evans's book American Photography, Frank's book was sparse and the photographs were only printed on the right-hand side of the pages. The left-hand side was blank except for the page numbers. Thus, from Frank we get a vision of a foreigner's response to his adopted country that is a kind of 'anguished visual poetry rather than graphic art.' Jack Kerouac. wrote in the introduction to the book 'he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world'" (Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century Photography). â â New York: Grove Press, 1959. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Book with light spot of residue from old bookplate or sticjker on front free (blank) endpaper; otherwise fine; dust jacket with two spots of dampstaining on front panel and a little bit of edgewear. A very good copy with a particularly strong Frank signature of a book that is notoriously difficult to find in collectible condition. Original cloth, original dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st American edition. 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. Loss of a little cloth at corner tips. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged second edition. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Original black cloth, slight spine lean; rubbed along bottom edges. Dust jacket nice and bright. Inscribed and Signed by Robert Frank in 1983.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 83 black & white photos with brief captions on facing pages. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Some filmstrip images from some of his films were added at the end of this edition. Original oblong black cloth. dj. 19 cm. Jacket chipped and edge-worn along top of backstrip and rear panel. Some rubbing at ends of backstrip and along other extremities. SIGNED on front free endpaper by Frank ("Robert Frank. Nov. 19 - 97."). [Second American edition], Revised and enlarged under the supervision of Aperture, Inc.

First Scalo edition. Small oblong hardcover. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. A collection of Frank's classic black and white photographs taken on his tour of America. Simply put, this is one of the most important photography books and its influence can't be overstated. A fine copy in black cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Frank on the half title page. (Parr & Badger 247; Roth 150-151).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second American edition, revised and enlarged. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Oblong octavo. A trifle rubbed, about fine copy in price-clipped near fine dust jacket with a small chip at the crown. The second printing, among other things, added film strip still images for the films that Frank had made since the initial publication of the first edition. This copy Inscribed by Frank on the second half-title, utilizing the printed title, to notable photographers: "For Danny Lyons[sic] and for Richard R. Sweeney without whom this book would still be without owner A triple hurrah for American know how A salute to the general population of Texas Fond memories of Chicken Shack & Sea Fare to the Sunsets over Diagnostics remember 4th of July in TOMPKINS SQUARE to all Wardens of all Penal Colonies let them out of the shitter for Billy G. McCune and all [The Americans] guilty & innocent. Your boss Robert between 8th Street & Huntsville 1969." A truly fascinating inscription. Lyon and Frank were close friends. When Lyon moved from Texas to New York City he was a guest in Frank's apartment for six months. In 1969 they bought an expensive motion picture camera together. On the day of the moon landing they were shooting a film in Tompkins Park where Lyon bought the stolen Mastercharge of Richard R. Sweeney from a street urchin for $2 (negotiated down from $5), using it to buy film for both of them. Sid Rapport, the man who reprinted this issue of *The Americans,* designed and printed stationary for Frank and Lyon's concern: "Sweeney Films: Robert Frank and Danny Lyon. If It Moves We Film It." Soon after, they traveled to Texas together, where Lyon used their jointly owned camera to film Texas prisons and prisoners. A superior association copy of a desirable title.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Robert Frank: A Complete Collection of Books and Limited Editions [9 Volumes SIGNED (3 also INSCRIBED)] and a Sweeping Archive of Printed Ephemera from Seven Decades. The collection includes a complete set of 15 editions of The Americans from 1958 to 2008, as well as nine rare signed and/or inscribed titles. Institutions may request an illustrated catalogue of the collection, which also includes an extraordinary archive of printed ephemera, summarized below. Ephemera Archive: A sweeping archive of approximately 300 related books, periodicals, catalogues and films, and thousands of clippings, correspondence and other ephemera rounds out the book collection and demonstrates Frank's widespread impact on photography and visual culture over the past seven decades. Additionally, this archive supplies a comprehensive overview of Frank's palpable impact on some of the most significant aspects of Western postwar society and culture, from the Beats to the Civil Rights Movement; from the quintessential, gritty street photograph to the iconic rock and roll film. Arguably the most important and influential artist in the history of the medium, these materials make evident how Frank's intensely personal, but universal human perspective radically reshaped photographic vision. This group of materials essentially falls into four groups, as detailed below, including pictures of some of the highlights. [The total volume of archival materials is approximately 7.75 linear feet.] PROVENANCE: please inquire. BOOKS AND LIMITED EDITIONS: 1. FRANK, Robert, BOSQUET, Alain, CROVI, Raffaele. Les Américains [The Americans]: Photographies de Robert Frank (First Edition, Delpire, 1958) [SIGNED]. Paris: Delpire, 1958. First edition (French). Signed and dated 'June 1992' in black ink on the half-title page by Frank. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards (illustrated by Saul Steinberg), no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. Text (in French) by Alain Bosquet, Raffaele Crovi and numerous other contributors. Edited by Robert Delpire. 174 pp. with 83 black and white gravure plates. 7 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches. [SIGNATURE PROVENANCE: from the personal library of Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies and the Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, at Wesleyan University.] CONDITION: Near Fine (light toning at the spine and upper edge of rear board, 1-1/2-inch light surface scratch to the lamination on the top edge of the front cover, 1-inch bump to the front lower cover not affecting the text block, several other minor indentations at the extremities and spine, slight foxing to the upper text block; previous owner's name written in blue ink in middle of front paste-down endpaper; "Hacker Art Books 57 West 54th NYC" written in black ink at top verso rear free endpaper; a very rare Near Fine signed copy). (#112380). Price: $9,000.00 2. FRANK, Robert, KEROUAC, Jack. Robert Frank: The Americans (First American Edition, Grove Press, 1959) [SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY]. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First American edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed in black ink on the half-title page by Frank ("For Andrew / First visit to 7 Bleecker St. / June 5th 1992 / Robert Frank") [Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies and the Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, at Wesleyan University)]. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on the spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Unpaginated (180 pp.), with 83 black-and-white gravure plates. 7-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches. CONDITION: Fine in Very Good dust jacket (a complete dust jacket with several closed tears repaired by tape showing aging at the crown and heel of the spine, front lower right corner and rear bottom edge). (#112381). Price: $15,000.00 3. FRANK, Robert, BOSQUET, Alain, CROVI, Raffaele. Gli Americani [The Americans]: Fotografie di Robert Frank (First Italian Ed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. INSCRIBED BY GORDON PARKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Third American Edition. Aperture, 1978. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. Third American Edition (preceded only by Grove Press, 1958 and Grossman/Aperture, 1969). Oblong 8vo. 176 pages with and introduction by Jack Kerouac and all 83 of Frank's images in their original sequence. Publisher's black boards, silver lettering to spine in white photo-illustrated dustjacket. Previously published in 1959, Frank's most famous and influential photography book contained a series of deceptively simple photos that he took on a trip through America in 1955 and 1956. SIGNED by Robert Frank on the title page. BOOK CONDITON: FIne; a tight, clean, bright copy in a Fine dust jacket showing light toning to margins. Overall a highly collectible SIGNED copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. The Americans. Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Grove Press, New York, 1959. 180 pp. Unpaginated. Oblong quarto. First edition. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dustjacket. 83 Black-and-white reproductions. SIGNED/INSCRIBED "Robert Frank / NYC Nov. 30. 96. / To Rob ." (also included is a notarized letter written by the former owner - a noted New York City bookseller - detailing when and where Robert Frank hand signed the book for him). BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket with hints of toning/soiling, tiny closed tear at front (and rear) top corners (at fold), and two 1/2 inch closed tears with associated wrinkling along top rear edge (small archival tape repairs to verso of jacket at each of these points). Jacket looks fantastic in a clear, brodart protector. Overall, a highly collectible SIGNED copy of the 1959 Grove Press Edition. Rober Frank's Americans ".paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Franks's masterpiece."--Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I . "It was Frank's The Americans that made the photographic book into an artform in its own right. Frank was following a lead set by Morris' book [The Inhabitants] and, especially, by Evans' American Photographs, both of which are designed to let pictures play off each other in a way that controls and reinforces their effect on the viewer. Even Klein's New York book displays this tendency. But Frank's goes much further, creating a denser, richer, deeper structure of images than any book before it."--Colin Westerbeck in Michel Frizot, et. al., The New History of Photography.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Second American Edition. New York, NY: Grossman Publishers / Aperture, 1969. Hardcover. Second American Edition (preceded only by the Grove Press edition published in 1958) 83 Photographs by Robert Frank with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Frank's classic, moving photo-portrait of American life, from drive-ins, diners and Angels through cowboys, casinos and cocktails. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. SIGNED by Robert Frank with place and date "NYC May 18 02" (on this date in 2002 K&M Camera on lower Broadway had a book signing for several photographers (Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon, Ralph Gibson, Joel Sternfeld, Larry Fink and others), and it was there that the book was signed by Robert Frank. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing rubbing and soiling to panels and edges, a small chip to lower rear center/margin and another to upper rear corner.

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 magazineÕs founder, Arnold Gingrich, as his successor. Inscribed: ÒFor Harold and the New Life in California. Robert, July 23, 1984.Ó During HayesÕs 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 Democratic National Convention held in San Francisco. Near fine copy with a hint of edge wear and very minor bumping to the corners in a near fine dust jacket with the barest indication of age. A collection of 83 black & white photographs of mostly rural America from the 1950Õs by renowned photographer Robert Frank. From the opening of the introduction by Jack Kerouac: ÒThat crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, thatÕs what Robert Frank has captured in tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car (on Guggenheim Fellowship) and with the agility, mystery, genius, sadness and strange secrecy of a shadow photographed scenes that have never been seen before on film.Ó.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. PRICING & AVAILABILITY: Please inquire for availability and current price. SHIPPING NOTE: due to size and weight, the amount added for shipping and insurance will be the actual cost for all orders (depending on shipping method requested and destination). 1972-2009. All first editions, first printings. As New in publisher's packaging. This complete set of Yugensha titles includes: 1) Robert Frank: The Americans, 81 Contact Sheets, Limited Edition (2009). Limited edition of 300 numbered copies (this being from the version of 220 copies enclosed in a paulownia wood box). 81 unbound four-color plates (size 20-1/4 x 16-5/8 inches) wrapped with a 3-1/8-inch gray paper obi/band and handmade Japanese paper, contained in a silver paper-covered trifold folio debossed with the artist's initials and title. The plates and folio enclosure are further contained in a padded, custom paulownia wood box with the artist's facsimile signature debossed on the lid. Box dimensions are 24-1/2 x 20-3/4 x 1-3/4 inches. Includes a 24-page laid-in pamphlet with notes on the photographs (in Japanese and English) by Robert Frank (interviewed by Shino Kuraishi). The paulownia wood box and pamphlet are housed in a sturdy black cardboard box with edition number label on edge. 2) Robert Frank: The Lines of My Hand, Limited Edition (cover plate version "New York City, 1948"), (1972). Limited edition of 1000 unnumbered copies. Hardcover. Fine black buckram covered boards with title stamped in white on front cover and spine, housed in a matching cloth slipcase with a black and white plate (7-1/4 x 11 inches) tipped in the front cover and title stamped in white on side (matching the book's spine), no dust jacket as issued. The cover plate photograph is "New York City, 1948" (500 copies were produced with this photograph on the slipcase, the other photograph used being "Platte River, Tennessee"). Photographs and text (in English) by Robert Frank. Drawing by June Leaf. Includes an editorial foreword, brief biography and letter to Robert Frank from Gotthard Schuh (reproduced from "Camera," August 1957). Includes the 32-page booklet (13-3/8 x 9-1/2 inches) laid in, with text translation (in Japanese) and illustrations of the book's plates. The booklet is printed with white text on matte black paper and staple-bound. Designed by Kohei Sugiura and Atsushi Co., Ltd. 124 pp., including two 2-page gatefolds (with Frank's contact sheets reproduced on the inside pages), with numerous black and white plates, beautifully printed on fine art paper by Nissha Printing Co., Ltd. 13-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches (slipcase is 14-1/8 x 10-1/2 inches). Out of print. Extremely scarce. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] 3) Robert Frank: Flower Is, Limited Edition. (Cover plate variant "Metro Stalingrade"), (1987). Limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies. Hardcover. Fine light gray silk cloth with title and graphic design of a flower stamped in dark gray on front cover and title stamped on spine, housed in a matching cloth slipcase with a black and white plate (5-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches, "Metro Stalingrade" variant, also reproduced in plate number 5 of the book) tipped in the front cover and title stamped in dark gray on side (matching the book's spine), no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (in English and Japanese) by Robert Frank. Includes a list of plates (in Japanese). Designed by Kohei Sugiura and Atsushi Co., Ltd. 112 pp. with 81 black and white plates, beautifully printed on fine art paper by Nissha Printing Co., Ltd. 13-3/4 x 10-1/8 inches (slipcase is 14-1/8 x 10-3/8 inches). Out of print. Extremely scarce. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] 4) Masao Mochizuki: Television 1975-1976, Limited Edition [SIGNED], (2001). Limited edition of 1800 copies. Signed by Mochizuki in silver ink verso the black front free endpaper, and in kanji in black ink on the colophon page. Hardcover. Fine black cloth-covered boards, with title blind-stamped on front cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued, and enclosed in a white cardboard slipcase with title printed in black on pasted-on beige label. Photographs and text (in English and Japanese) by Masao Mochizuki. Essay (in English and Japanese) by Eikoh Ikui. Includes list of plates. Designed by Daisuke Suzuki. Unpaginated (80 pp.), with 82 black and white plates, most full-bleed (and a thumbnail black and white illustration of Mochizuki's modified Mamiya Flex C-2 camera on the colophon page), printed with Hyecoo Highconc Black L ink on White A Post paper. 15-1/4 x 14-3/4 inches. 5) Jun Morinaga: Kawa, Ruiei (River, Its Shadow of Shadows), 1960-1963, (1978). Hardcover. Fine gray silk cloth-covered boards with white title stamped in English on cover, and in Japanese on spine, with a photographically illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Photographs and text (in Japanese and English) by Jun Morinaga. Essays (in Japanese and English) by W. Eugene Smith (for whom Morinaga worked as an assistant), Miyabi Ichikawa, Koichi Tanigawa, and Seigow Matsuoka. Includes a chronology (in Japanese and English). Designed by Kohei Sugiura and Hitoshi Suzuki. 166 pp. (including numerous gatefolds), with 89 black and white plates, printed by Nissha Printing Co., Ltd., Kyoto. 12-3/8 x 10-7/8 inches. [Cited in Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. (New York: Aperture, 2009).]. Signed by Author.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Signed by Robert Frank on the title page. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine, with light wear and light soiling to binding, short superficial crack to top of front spine joint, several preliminary leaves lightly creased, hinge slightly exposed at half-title page and page block a little sunken. A lovely copy of Frank's iconic and influential work.

Condition: Wie neu. Scalo, Zurich. 2000. First english Scalo edition (was published simultanously in german language), first printing. Bodly signed by Robert Frank! Signatures by this artist are super scarce, especially for this title! New, mint, unread; only opened once for signature. For many experts the most important photobook ever published! 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 photo-illustrated dustjacket. 246 x 220 mm. 181 pages. Black and white plates. Text in english. Perfect condition! Signed by the artist! Collector`s copy!***************Scalo, Zürich. 2000. Erste englische Scalo Ausgabe (erschienen parallel in deutscher Sprache). Wunderschön signiert von Robert Frank! Signaturen dieses Künstlers sind extrem selten, erst recht für diesen Titel! Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; nur einmal geöffnet für die Signatur. Für viele Experten das wichtigste und einflussreichste Buch in der Geschichte der Fotografie! 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 in schwarzem Leinen mit foto-illustriertem Original-Schutzumschlag. 246 x 220 mm. 181 Seiten. Schwarz-weiss Fotos. Text in englischer Sprache. Perfekter Zustand! Signiert vom Künstler! Sammler-Stück! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.