Americans by Robert Kerouac, Signed (7 results)

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).

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: 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.

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 magazineŐs founder, Arnold Gingrich, as his successor. Inscribed: ŇFor Harold and the New Life in California. Robert, July 23, 1984.Ó During HayesŐs 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 1950Ős by renowned photographer Robert Frank. From the opening of the introduction by Jack Kerouac: ŇThat crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, thatŐs 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: 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: 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.

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).