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LALOU Étienne :. Le soleil *. R. Delpire, Paris 15.4.1958., 1958.
Price: US$62.07 + shipping
Description: Relié 19 x 22, couverture illustrée couleur. Édition originale. Iconographie riche et soignée, en noir et en couleurs. Sur demande autres titres de cette collection célèbre pour avoir recueilli "Les Américains" de Robert Frank et, d'une moindre façon, les Allemands de René Burri. > En cas de problème de commande, veuillez nous contacter par notre page d'accueil / If you have any problems with your order please contact us via our homepage <
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Robert Frank. Les Americains. Robert Delpire, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's laminated boards designed with illustration by Saul Steinberg, as issued. Boards show some handling smudges, wear at shoulders, a ding at foot edge, scratches, edgewear. One corner heavily bumped. See photos. Spine has black text on turquoise band and is darkened with crushed ends. See photos. Binding is secure. Pastedowns and feps have notable foxing, age toning, owner's marks at rear. See photos. Title page has owner signature. See photos. Illustrations are bright and clear. Interior is uniformly age-toned. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have dust at head, some edgewear at foot.** PS2023.0607** 172 pages. Oblong quarto, 8.25 x 7.25 inches** Les Americains is the most well-known and most influential work by photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019). It is the end product of Frank's journeys around the United States, underwritten by a 1955 Guggenheim Fellowship. Frank traveled some 10,000 miles and took 27,000 photographs, from which he chose eighty-three for this book. Their of-the-moment style was radical at the time; that they look familiar now is proof of the tremendous influence Frank had on the generations of photographers who followed him.** This is the first edition, published in Paris, with texts in French by authors including William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Simone de Beauvoir and others. Not the most beautifully packaged copy, due to the foxing on the end papers and age toning throughout. But Frank's work shines through in this volume, an at once clear-eyed and hopeful look at the photographer's adopted country.** First Edition; fifth volume of the collection "Encyclopedie essentielle" published by Robert Delpire and Jacques Monoroy. Printing completed May 15, 1958.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009723"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1657.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In 4 oblong, couverture illustrée par Saul Steinberg, 174 pages, très nombreuses photographies de Robert Frank. Dos jauni, légères rousseurs sur la tranche sinon bel exemplaire.
Seller: La Basse Fontaine, VENCE, France
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
FRANK ROBERT. Les américains. Delpire, Paris, 1958.
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Description: Paris, Delpire 1958. 215x192mm. Textes de Simone de Beauvoir, John dos Passos, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner,.réunis et présentés par Alain Bousquet, accompagnant les photos de Robert Frank. Couverture se Steinberg.Edition originale, bel exemplaire. Sinibladi-Couturier 120. Hasselblad 172-173. Parr & Badger I, 247.(102517) Livres
Seller: Chloé et Denis Ozanne, Paris, France
Frank, Robert. Les Americains. Delpire, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$3091.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A copy with two inches (including infilled blue) beautifully done restoration of the upper spine. Photos perfect, no dents. Some staining to front and back covers. Photos perfect, no dents. Some staining to front and back covers.
Seller: Indexbooks/Peter Gidal, london, United Kingdom
Frank, Robert. Les Américains. Paris, Delpire, 1958.
Price: US$3159.77 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris, Delpire, 15 mai 1958, édition originale. Cinquième opus de la collection "Encyclopédie essentielle" réalisé par Robert Delpire et Jacques Monory. Cartonnage d'éditeur illustré avec un détail d'un dessin de Saül Steinberg, 190 x 215mm. 174 pages, 83 photographies n/ b reproduites en héliogravure avec le texte en regard. Textes de Simone de Beauvoir, Bernard Iddings Bell, John Brown, Erskine Caldwell, F. R. de Chateaubriand, Stephen Crane, John Dewey, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, André Maurois, Henry Miller, Franklin-D. Roosevelt, Claude Roy, André Siegfried, John Steinbeck, Adlaï Stevenson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harry S. Truman, George Washington, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright etc. réunis et présentés par Alain Bosquet. Exemplaire très frais. Schweizer Fotobücher p. 218 / Parr & Badger I p. 247 / M+M Auer 375 / Open Book, p.172.
Seller: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
Frank, Robert. Les Americains [The Americans]. Robert Delpire, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$3667.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sm.8° Ob. - 172pp - B/w Photo-reproductions. The Americans first edition by Robert Frank (1924-2019) Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. Text in French language. Original hard cover. Previous owner signature, in very good condition
Seller: °ART...on paper - 20th Century Art Books, Lugano, Switzerland
Frank, Robert;. Les Américains. Robert Delpire, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$4288.26 + shipping
Description: Untertitel: Photographies de Robert Frank.Textes de Simone de Beauvoir, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright et al. Reihe: Serie histoire No.3 Le cinqième livre de la collection Encyclopédie essentielle Untergebiet: Americana Abbildungen: Couverture de Saul Steinberg. Photographies Zustand: Bon état Seiten: 172 S. Format: Quart kl.-8 Einband: Pbd. Gebiet: Photographie
Seller: Antiquariat Narrenschiff, Trin, Switzerland
Price: US$4537.50 + shipping
Description: 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 that would be 'a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present. A visual study of a civilisation.' Les Américains follows a careful and complex sequence, with four chapters, each exploring a different aspect of American culture and introduced by a photograph of the American flag. In this, the first edition, the photographs are accompanied by a series of texts by various writers selected by Alain Bosquet. Regards à travers Le Livre 120; The Open Book pp1723; The Photobook: A History I, p247; Auer Collection p375; Swiss Photobooks pp218227, pp6667.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5475.12 + shipping
Description: 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, transfigured, transposed, played off and piled up against each other with the exuberant energy of a Charlie Parker saxophone solo" (Parr & Badger). Parr & Badger I, p. 247; Roth 101, pp. 150-51. Oblong octavo. Original laminated boards decorated with a design by Saul Steinberg, lettering to spine in black, lettering to front cover in black and red. No dust jacket issued. Full page monochrome photographs throughout by Frank. Very minor toning to spine, light spotting to endpapers otherwise an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Frank, Robert. Les américains.. Paris, Delpire, 1958.
Price: US$5734.98 + shipping
Description: 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 Photography" (1953) und "The Family of Man" (1955) . Dank eines Stipendiums der Guggenheim-Stiftung konnte er 1955-56 auf mehreren Reisen durch die USA seine "visuelle Studie einer Zivilisation" machen. Die Bilder stiessen anfänglich auf Ablehnung, da sie das positive Amerika-Bild unterwanderten und sich über den gängigen fotograf. Kanon hinwegsetzten. F.s vermeintl. Stillosigkeit und unerbittl. Beschreibung alltägl. Tristesse haben aber die Nachkriegsfotografie in Amerika wie Europa nachhaltig geprägt. Eine Auswahl der 20'000 Aufnahmen wurde zuerst 1958 in Frankreich unter dem Titel "Les Américains" veröffentlicht, 1959 in Amerika mit einer Einleitung des Beat-Poeten Jack Kerouac. Mit ihm drehte F. im gleichen Jahr seinen ersten Film "Pull my Daisy", eine Schilderung der amerikan. On-the-Road-Generation. 1961 folgte eine erste Einzelausstellung im Art Institute of Chicago. In den 1960er und 1970er Jahren beschäftigte F. sich v. a. mit experimentellem Film. Er gründete u.a. mit Jonas Mekas die New American Cinema Group (1960). Es entstanden über 25 Filme, sehr oft mit autobiogr. Einschlag. 1972 kam "Lines of My Hand", eine Art fotograf. Autobiografie, heraus. Gegen Ende der 1970er Jahre wandte sich F. auch wieder der Fotografie zu (Collagen und Polaroidbilder), die sich nun v.a. auf sein persönliches, vom Schicksal hart geprüftes Leben konzentrierte. Diese Bilder standen in der melancholisch-grüblerischen Stimmung und der unkonventionellen Form den frühen in nichts nach. Einen grossen Teil seines Werkes schenkte F. 1990 der National Gallery of Art in Washington, die ihn 1994 mit einer Retrospektive als wichtigsten Fotografen unserer Zeit ehrte. Die Ausstellung wurde u. a. 1995 auch in Zürich gezeigt. 2004 widmete ihm die Tate Modern Gallery in London eine grosse Einzelausstellung, die anschliessend in versch. europ. Städten, u.a. in Winterthur, gezeigt wurde. F. lebt heute in New York und Mabou (Nova Scotia, Kanada)» (HLS). 1600 gr. Schlagworte: Photographie
Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: 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. Very fine copy, with none of the fading or wear endemic to this book 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.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Robert Frank. Les Americains (The Americans, Signed). Robert Delpire, 1958.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A spectacular copy. Signed by Robert Frank in a very steady hand. True First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. First published on 15 May 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series. Writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck were included, that Delpire positioned opposite Frank's photographs.[Oblong 8vo, original laminated boards. Cover design by Saul Steinberg. Precedes the First American edition by Grove Press in 1959. A sharp copy with the slightest bit of rubbing.
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Frank, Robert. Les Americains [The Americans]. Robert Delpire, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Frank, Robert & Alain Bosquet text. LES AMERICAINS. Delpire, Paris, 1958.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A BOOK LOVED TO DEATH, oblong 4to, Steinberg boards scotch taped at spine, rather badly, tape browning, INSCRIBED "for gabriele on her birthday, May 17, 1959" in an unknown hand, then INSCRIBED again in a slow, steady clear hand "April 9th, 1983 in NYC happy birthday again Gabriele, Robert Frank" Gabriele Wunderlich was a minor photographer, photo picture editor and friend of Frank. Frank rarely signed books, until much later in life when the overwhelming demand and his unfortunate physical exhaustion made him relent. Even comparatively early ones like this, and esp. personalized are quite scarce In his last twenty yrs virtually every SIGNED Robert Frank book was from either a book signing, a dealer or a collector, not to somone who he knew, or from pity ("I need to pay the rent etc.".vvclst1/2. NO PICS IT IS WHAT IT IS.vvcls1/2
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$79500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Robert Frank: A Complete Collection of Books and Limited Editions [9 Volumes SIGNED (3 also INSCRIBED)] and a Sweeping Archive of Printed Ephemera from Seven Decades. The collection includes a complete set of 15 editions of The Americans from 1958 to 2008, as well as nine rare signed and/or inscribed titles. Institutions may request an illustrated catalogue of the collection, which also includes an extraordinary archive of printed ephemera, summarized below. Ephemera Archive: A sweeping archive of approximately 300 related books, periodicals, catalogues and films, and thousands of clippings, correspondence and other ephemera rounds out the book collection and demonstrates Frank's widespread impact on photography and visual culture over the past seven decades. Additionally, this archive supplies a comprehensive overview of Frank's palpable impact on some of the most significant aspects of Western postwar society and culture, from the Beats to the Civil Rights Movement; from the quintessential, gritty street photograph to the iconic rock and roll film. Arguably the most important and influential artist in the history of the medium, these materials make evident how Frank's intensely personal, but universal human perspective radically reshaped photographic vision. This group of materials essentially falls into four groups, as detailed below, including pictures of some of the highlights. [The total volume of archival materials is approximately 7.75 linear feet.] PROVENANCE: please inquire. BOOKS AND LIMITED EDITIONS: 1. FRANK, Robert, BOSQUET, Alain, CROVI, Raffaele. Les Américains [The Americans]: Photographies de Robert Frank (First Edition, Delpire, 1958) [SIGNED]. Paris: Delpire, 1958. First edition (French). Signed and dated 'June 1992' in black ink on the half-title page by Frank. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards (illustrated by Saul Steinberg), no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. Text (in French) by Alain Bosquet, Raffaele Crovi and numerous other contributors. Edited by Robert Delpire. 174 pp. with 83 black and white gravure plates. 7 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches. [SIGNATURE PROVENANCE: from the personal library of Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies and the Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, at Wesleyan University.] CONDITION: Near Fine (light toning at the spine and upper edge of rear board, 1-1/2-inch light surface scratch to the lamination on the top edge of the front cover, 1-inch bump to the front lower cover not affecting the text block, several other minor indentations at the extremities and spine, slight foxing to the upper text block; previous owner's name written in blue ink in middle of front paste-down endpaper; "Hacker Art Books 57 West 54th NYC" written in black ink at top verso rear free endpaper; a very rare Near Fine signed copy). (#112380). Price: $9,000.00 2. FRANK, Robert, KEROUAC, Jack. Robert Frank: The Americans (First American Edition, Grove Press, 1959) [SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY]. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First American edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed in black ink on the half-title page by Frank ("For Andrew / First visit to 7 Bleecker St. / June 5th 1992 / Robert Frank") [Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies and the Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, at Wesleyan University)]. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on the spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Unpaginated (180 pp.), with 83 black-and-white gravure plates. 7-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches. CONDITION: Fine in Very Good dust jacket (a complete dust jacket with several closed tears repaired by tape showing aging at the crown and heel of the spine, front lower right corner and rear bottom edge). (#112381). Price: $15,000.00 3. FRANK, Robert, BOSQUET, Alain, CROVI, Raffaele. Gli Americani [The Americans]: Fotografie di Robert Frank (First Italian Ed
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.