Robert Frank Introduction Jack Kerouac (30 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 180 pages. 7.20x8.20x7.20 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Spine slant. Creased down spine. Some shelf rubbing and smudging to covers.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 180 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frank, Robert (photographs) (illustrator). First Thus. Very good+ in original wraps, small stain to spine, some yellowing of wraps. 176p., b&w photography by the American master. Great introductory essay by Jack Kerouac. "That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD PLUS in Good Dustjacket. Reprint. Folio. 11 1/4 x 9 14 in. Black cloth-covered boards with title embossed to front board. Rubbing to extremities and a bump to bottom edge of front board.Edgewear and a 1 in. x 1 1/2 in. chip to dustjacket. In l955 and l956, driving an old used car, living off the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant he had been awarded, Robert Frank traversed forty-eight states of America "and with the agility, mystery, genius, sadness and strange secrecy of a shadow photographed scenes that have never been seen before on film.The humolr, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American--ness of these pictures! Tall thin cowboy rolling butt outside Madison Squaer Garden New York for rodeo season, sad, spindly, unbelievable -- Long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities and flat of impossible-to-believe America in New Mexico under the prisoner's moon -- under the whang whang guitar star -- Haggard old frowsy dames of Los Angeles leaning peering out the right front window of Old Paw's car on a Syunday gawking and criticizing to explain Amerikay to little children in the spattered back seat.What a poem this is, what poems can ber written about this book of pictures some day by some young new writer high by candelight bending over them describing every gray mysterious dertail, the gray film that caught the actual pink juice of human kind." (Jack Kerouac).

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing of the Revised and Enlarged Edition, "An Aperture Book", 1969. Clean and tightly bound in black cloth with gold spine titles. Light rubbing along bottom margin and very slight shelf wear. The contents and photographic plates are clean and unmarked. Slight creasing to margins of introduction only, remains a Very Good copy. The unclipped DJ shows light shelf wear, edge wear and a 2 1/2" X 1" chip lacking from the front panel; a Good only dust jacket.

Hardcover. First printing of this 50th anniversary edition, with publisher's red wraparound band. Publisher's promotional booklet laid in. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (stated), First Printing thus, 1959. A Poor copy due to a 6 page grouping detached (but present). Ex-library with a sticker stain to the spine. Internally the photo plates are clean except for three which have library rubber stamps in the margins. The title page is stamped and overstamped with "Discarded" and a library pocket is attached to the rear endpaper. The Kerouac introduction is unmarked except for a small rubber stamped "80" in the margin of page i and some light smudges. The covers show rubbing to the spine titles and edges and light shelf wear. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Steidl Edition. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good dust jacket and Very Good wrap-around band. Spine white with red band and black text. Dust jacket and wrap-around band are in a mylar protective cover. Dust jacket and band both show minor shelf wear on covers, edges, and fore corners. Very light vertical dent across dust jacket back. Boards show very light scuffing on covers. Faint vertical scrape across rear board, which causes minor bowing and corresponds to dent in dust jacket. Spine is slightly cocked. Text block shows light age toning around edges of pages. Signed flat in black marker by Robert Frank on title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. This edition is the first 50th Anniversary Edition of Robert Frank's classic. 1399574. Special Collections.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Revised and enlarged edition. Title page lists Aperture and MOMA as publishers; sticker on rear states Grossman Publishers. Light staining and wear; top to bottom crease on front with smaller creases and bottom corner.

Eighth Steidl Edition. Octavo (19cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gray on spine; dustjackt; [n.p.]; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Very slight spine lean, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear; Near Fine. "In The Americans Frank has given us a vision of the United States that is as true or untrue as we care to make it. What is certain is that it changed the face of photography in the documentary mode. It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers who were not fooled by the sanctimony of 'The Family of Man,' and it paved the way for three decades of photographs exploring the personal poetics of lived experience" (PARR & BADGER, Vol.1, p.247). CHARTERS B10. [84780].

Couverture rigide. Condition: Comme neuf. 2ème Édition. Paris , 2009. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée sous jaquette illustrée . Format in-4°oblong ( 22,2 x 24,6 cm )( 996 gr ). --------- 179 pages . ************************ 4ème de Couverture : "Publié dans l'indifférence en 1958, ce livre est devenu un classique. Jugé triste ou pervers, voire subversif, par la presse américaine d' alors, son importance n'a pourtant cessé de croître au fil des années. Car les photographes, les critiques et le grand public ont salué en Robert Frank un véritable novateur. Ce livre n'a rien d'un reportage. Il ne raconte pas le périple d'un homme à travers les Etats-Unis. Il rassemble une suite de notes prises sur le vif par un écorché vif. " ************************* ref 55bse44bs.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd ed. 1969 Aperture revised and enlarged edition, oblong softcover with very light shelf wear. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rober Frank (illustrator). 1st. Edition 1959 , Revised and Enlarge Edition 1969. Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, un - paged . Illustrated with 83 full page black & white photo plates by Frank. Condition : Near Fine with light edge ware to the boards . DJ is Very Good with rubs and lighjt edge chips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First American Edition; first edition with Kerouac's 6 page introduction. Two photos loose ; foxing on front endpaper and edges of pages; date-stamped on front endpaper. DJ missing.

First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. 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 Americans 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).

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: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Frank and inscribed to "MacDowell Aug .18.02 For Mr William Banks under trees in a wonderful country Robert Frank". William Banks was the longest standing board member of the MacDowell Colony, which is the oldest art colony in the United States. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. Near Fine with light fading to cloth at edges, cloth worn through in small patches at bottom corners and a tiny spot to the bottom textblock edge, pages lightly tanned and lightly bumped at the bottom corners. In a Very Good restored dust jacket with some mended tears and infill. An outsider's nuanced view of American society, as seen through the Swiss-born photographer's lens.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presentation copy signed by Robert Frank on the half-title, inscribed to former owner "an old book on my 60th Birthday New York City Nov. 9 1984 good luck [signed] Robert Frank." 178, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver. Second Aperture edition. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with a little toning and rubbing, small scrape to front panel bottom corner, closed tear near head. A signed copy of the classic photography book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First American Edition. Very Good- or Good+; Gilt-stamped black cloth; slight rubbing to gilt on spine; softening to spine ends; light foxing to top edge of textblock; binding very slightly shaken with last few pages slightly detached; overall a quite nice copy of this essential photo book. Lacks dust jacket. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing of Frank's revered monograph. Bound in publisher's black cloth binding with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth, light tanning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with foxing, toning and light edge wear. An uncommonly sharp copy of the Swiss-American photographer's photobook outlining his outsider's nuanced view of American society. The American edition includes Jack Kerouac's important introduction, "That crazy feeling in America." alongside a series of 83 black and white photographic images. Roth 101 pp.150-51, The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 p. 247, The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present pp. 176-77.

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).

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).