Americans by Robert Kerouac (72 results)

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. B & W photographs; 8.2 X 0.75 X 7.2 inches; 180 pages.

paperback. Condition: As New. Paperback--no flaws.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No markings, some light wear on jacket ,

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: Good. The Americans Photographs by Robert Frank, and introduction by Jack Kerouac Published by Aperture/Museum of Modern Art., New York, 1968. with Grossman Publishers and ISBN no. on sticker on back. SOFTCOVER Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and the despair of the present in a grimy roofscape. He saw the roiling racial tension, glamour, and beauty, and, perhaps because Frank himself was on the road, he was particularly attuned to Americans' love for cars. Funeral-goers lean against a shiny sedan, lovers kiss on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive-in movie. A sports car under a drop cloth is framed by two California palm trees; on the next page, a blanket is draped over a car accident victim's body in Arizona. Robert Frank's Americans reappear 40 years after they were initially published in this exquisite volume by Scalo. Each photograph (there are more than 80 of them) stands alone on a page, while the caption information is included at the back of the book, allowing viewers an unfettered look at the images. Jack Kerouac's original introduction, commissioned when the photographer showed the writer his work while sitting on a sidewalk one night outside of a party, provides the only accompanying text. Kerouac's words add narrative dimension to Frank's imagery while in turn the photographs themselves perfectly illustrate the writer's own work. "water stain on the cover which adds rippling to the early pages, gift inscription, otherwise good, clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket placed in mylar for preservation. Minor loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.73.

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

Paperback. Condition: Good. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Spine slant. Creased down spine. Some shelf rubbing and smudging to covers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Revised and enlarged edition. Title page lists Aperture and MOMA as publishers; sticker on rear states Grossman Publishers. Light staining and wear; top to bottom crease on front with smaller creases and bottom corner.

Hardcover. Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). Dust Jacket Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). Black cloth with trace wear and slightly bumped spine ends. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has minor edgewear; moderate toning esp along edges; flaps not clipped. Binding sound. Interior clean, lightly toned and somewhat musty. B/w photographs. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 177 pp.

FRANK, ROBERT. The Americans. 180 pp., 84 duotone illustrations, and an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Oblong 4to, cloth. New York: Scalo, 2000. A reissue of this classic work from 1959, one of the most famous and influential photography books ever published. Very slight wear to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 182 pages. Illustrations throughout. A small black remainder dot to the bottom edge. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Originally published by Robert Delpire, Paris, 1958 and the Grove Press, New York, 1959. This is a Fourth Print Scalo Edition, 2000. List of Captions. Book.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SCALO PUBLISHERS. 1993 B00K: Fine/ (illustrator). 1st Edition. B00K: Fine/ $54O.12. Reduced From. 18816161OX the AMERICANS FRANK, Robert; KEROUAC, Jack SCAL0 PUBLISHERS 1993 1sT SCAL0 Edition Black Spine With Title White Letters, Dust Jacket: Fine/Very Good/, Sight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. One, ½ Inch Bump, Into The Spine, In The Middle Front Edge. Rectangular Hard Cover BooK: Fine/, 179 Numbered Pages, That Were Lightly Read, And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Gift Inscription To Prior Owner, In The Front Of The BooK, As Follows, X-mas, Chanukah 1996 Dearest Lois Than you for giving Birth To A DAUGHTER WHO GAVE BIRTH TO MY Best Friend. I Love You, Peter And A Healthy & Prosperous 97------'. Written In Blue Ink. Printed On Off White Paper. = = Description Applies To This B00K, Only. Which, Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE. =.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. New York: Aperture/Grossman, 1969. Oblong octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Revised and enlarged edition. Foxing to the top and bottom edges of the text block. Some trace foxing internally, but not affecting the photographs. Unclipped jacket edge worn and foxed with a bit of chipping. Book and jacket are both in good condition.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 174p. Size: 23x25 cm.

Condition: Fine. Size:22 x 24 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing, hardcover, has light lean to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, some mild wear to the cover edges, and a small smudge to the tail of the text block at the fore corner, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good copy in like dust jacket, which has light bumps to the spine ends and corners with a tiny tear to the upper front corner, and faint rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover; landscape 8vo; 176 pages. Third edition. Collection of stunning b&w photography with an introduction written by Jack Kerouac. Black cloth with silver titles on spine, black on upper board. Gently rubbed edges. Bright and clean interior. In a b&w jacket, illustrated, in a mylar jacket. Light shelfwear. FINE/NF. Book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Seminal photobook. Dust jacket has a couple shallow chips and creases, and a single short closed tear along front panel. Price unclipped. Bound in original publisher's black cloth. Nice cover. Interior text and images are clean throughout. Binding is secure.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged second edition. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Original black cloth. Dust jacket with chip and tear to top left portion.

Hardcover. 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 linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. -Website description. VG- overall light shelfewar to boards and corners, VG inside. Clean, tight, crisp corners and very little wear.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd ed. 1969 Aperture revised and enlarged edition, oblong softcover with very light shelf wear. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

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: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Slightly oversized hardcover (8.5 x 7.5 inches). Black cloth binding with gold lettering on the spine. Spine is faded toward gray from exposure to light. Gold lettering is faded and rubbed. A few light scuffs to the boards from half a century on the shelf. No DJ. Previous owner's name on the inside front cover. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1958 (French edition) and 1959. Stated First Grove Press edition. Black and white photographs. 6 page introduction by Kerouac. Bottom corner of the inside back cover is a bit purple from bleed-through of the black cloth beneath white endpapers. Ownership name proudly signed on front free endpaper seems to be S.A. Shah. Quite a nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Measures 8.5 x 7.5 inches. This is the first US edition of one of the 20th centuries great photography books.