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THE AMERICANS. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT FRANK. INTRODUCTION BY JACK KEROUAC.
Published by New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959., 1959
First Edition
American first edition (per publisher's requisite statement "First Grove Press Edition" upon copyright page). [4], i-vi, [2], [83 leaves of b/w plates], [1]. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 21.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled with some toning and foxing; front panel chipped at top right with unfortunate long jagged tear with associated creasing ascending from bottom right to center left; shallow chipping at spine ends with nicks and other much lesser tears at panel edges; front flap retains publisher's original printed price "$7.50" at top right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine. Text block's top edge well foxed with much lighter presence to fore-edge. Some toning to endpapers; past owner's personal bookplate affixed to front pastedown; scattered spots of light soiling at margins of interior leaves. Slight sag to text block but binding is firm. A very good copy in only a good dust jacket. Aided by his mentor Walker Evans, Swiss-born American photographer Robert Frank secured a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1955and 1956 with the goal of documenting the dichotomies of American society. Travelling nationally, usually via long road trips sometimes with his family and sometimes without, Frank visited all regions and almost all states including Savannah, Miami Beach, St. Petersburg, New Orleans (a Crescent City streetcar being the locale of famous photo illustrating the dj's front panel), Houston, Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake City, Butte, Detroit, Chicago, etc. Initially unable to secure an American publisher, Frank convinced Paris publisher Robert Delpire to issue the book in 1958 under the title "Les Amà ricains." Grove Press quickly followed with this first American edition in 1959 and its success led to prominent solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961 and at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1962. Regarded as one the most significant works in the history of photography, THE AMERICANS was republished in 1969 and 2008.
