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Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958 First Printing. Saul Steinberg-designed laminated boards show a bit of wear & soil with laminate peel/lift at spine edges, front hinge partially cracked with webbing showing but hinges remain tight, mild foxing to prelims and page block edges, a bit musty; with texts (in French) chosen by Alain Bosquet by Simone de Beauvoir, John Brown, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Richard Wright, Walt Whitman, and others; a Very Good copy; Text in French; sl ob 8vo; 172pp illus. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Paris: Delpire, 1957. First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original boards illustrated by Saul Steinberg. In near fine condition. 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… Read More

Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine, with slight lean to binding, light toning to spine with light wear at the spine ends and a small stain to the top edge of the page block. A very sharp and bright copy.

Paris, 1958. Photographies de Robert Frank.Textes de Simone de Beauvoir, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright et al. Serie histoire No.3 Le cinqième livre de la collection Encyclopédie essentielle Bon état Robert Delpire Quart kl.-8 Pbd. Americana

Paris, Encyclopédie Essentielle, Robert Delpire Éditeur, 1958. . First edition; oblong 8vo (185 x 210 mm, 7¼ x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Draeger Frères, Montrouge, texts by various authors selected by Alain Bosquet; plain endpapers, laminated white paper-covered boards illustrated with an illustration by Saul Steinberg printed in light blue, black, and red, spine leaning, head and foot of spine tapped, fine; 172, [2]pp. An uncommonly fine copy of the first published edition of Robert Frank's The Americans, a book that altered the course of twentieth-century photography and held a mirror to the American people. In his successful application for a Guggenheim grant, Frank wrote: 'The project I have in mind is one that will shape itself as it proceeds… The material is there; the practice will be in the photographer's hand, the vision in his mind.' Between April 1955 and June 1956, he set out on a series of trips across America. He aimed to complete a body of work… Read More

Paris: Robert Delpire,, 1958. Arguably the most renowned photobook of all First edition, first printing, of Robert Frank's masterpiece, in which his photographs are accompanied by text by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, and John Steinbeck. Frank's work "has become so much the photobook of legend in its first American edition that it is often forgotten that Delpire's original Paris edition was a different book. Its accompanying texts, gathered by Alain Bosquet, placed it more in a socio-documentary context - with a politically antagonistic, even anti-American point of view. What has made this arguably the most renowned photobook of all? Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, the majority of the pictures are instantly memorable, 'dry, lean, and transparent,' as John Szarkowski has said of them, yet also weighty and profound, even heartstopping. Secondly, there is the sequencing... Ideas ebb and flow, are introduced, discarded, recapitulated,… Read More

Paris: Delpire, 1957. First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original boards illustrated by Saul Steinberg. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. ack 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… Read More

Paris, Delpire, 1958. Quer-8°, 172 S., 83 ganzseitigen s/w. Photographien., Kart., Rückenteil abgelöst (aber fachfrauisch angesetzt.) Etwas berieben, sonst schönes Exemplar EA. (= Encyclopédie essentielle 5. Serie histoire No. 3). Mit Deckelillustration von Saul Steinberg. Eines der wichtigsten Bücher zur Nachkriegsphotographie. - «Robert Frank, geb. 9.11.1924 Zürich, isr., ab 1945 von Zürich. [...] 1941-46 lernte und arbeitete F. bei den Fotografen Hermann Segesser und Michael Wolgensinger in Zürich, bei Victor Bouverat in Genf und bei den Gebrüdern Eidenbenz in Basel; nebenbei Standfotograf für Filme. 1947 wanderte F. nach New York aus (ab 1963 amerikan. Staatsbürger). Arbeitete kurz bei "Harper's Bazaar", um dann als freier Fotograf für versch. Auftraggeber (u. a. "Life") zwischen Europa, Süd- und Nordamerika zu pendeln. Er unterstützte Edward Steichen, Fotograf und Direktor des Photography Department im Museum of Modern Art in New York, bei den Ausstellungen "Post-War European… Read More

Paris: Encyclopedie Essentielle, Robert Delpire Editeur, (1958). First edition, preceding the American edition. "The Delpire first edition Les Américains (1958) is more like a sociological study, wherein Frank's photographs appear as illustrations of the probing texts printed on facing pages, gathered by Alain Bosquet from dozens of illustrious writers. . . . When Barney Rosset at Grove Press agreed to publish The Americans in the U.S., Frank pulled out all the text, leaving only blank pages with captions facing the images, mirroring the layout of Evans's American Photographs. . . . The French edition is sociology, the American edition is poetry." - David Levi Strauss, as quoted by Roth, The Book of 101 Books, p. 150. Very fine copy, with none of the fading or wear endemic to this book. Oblong 8vo, original laminated boards after a design by Saul Steinberg. Very fine copy, with none of the fading or wear endemic to this book.

Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Signed by Robert Frank on the title page. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine, with light wear and light soiling to binding, short superficial crack to top of front spine joint, several preliminary leaves lightly creased, hinge slightly exposed at half-title page and page block a little sunken. A lovely copy of Frank's iconic and influential work.