The Americans [SIGNED - 1969 GROSSMAN/APERTURE HARDCOVER EDITION - FINE COPY]

by Frank, Robert; Kerouac, Jack

$10,000 · Offered by Biblio

Signed · In dust jacket

Grossman/Aperture, 1969. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 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.

• Publisher: Grossman/Aperture
• Year: 1969
• Edition: Second American Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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