The Americans. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.

by FRANK, Robert.

$12,081 · Offered by Biblio

New York, An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, 1969. . Second edition, revised and enlarged, inscribed in black ink; oblong 8vo (183 x 208 mm, 7¼ x 8¼ in); black & white photographs printed in 'stonetone' offset by Rapoport Printing Corp., New York, introduction by Jack Kerouac, afterword by Robert Frank with details of the four films he made 1959-68, occasional light spotting, light marking to edges, printer's ink mark to one page; plain endpapers, light spotting, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, minor toning, lightly marked, a very good copy in Motomura Kazuhiko's card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side; [iv], vi, [182]pp. A presentation copy inscribed to Frank's friend and publisher Motomura Kazuhiko. An important presentation copy of the revised and enlarged edition of Robert Frank's The Americans, inscribed to Frank's friend and publisher Motomura Kazuhiko: 'To Kazuhiko Motomura / I hope to see you / again / and that we will / become friends / Robert Frank / Nov. 1970 / New York.'

• Publisher: New York, An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, 1969.
• Binding: hardcover

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