Robert Frank - Les Americains - 1958

Robert Frank's ICONIC PHOTOBOOK in the VERY SCARCE, TRUE FIRST PRINTING WORLDWIDE -
the first French preceding the first American edition (published by Grove Press) by NEARLY 1 (!) YEAR (!).

For many collectors, photographers and experts the MOST IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOK EVER PUBLISHED:
- Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, page 150/151
- Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 247. Hasselblad Center, page 176/177
- 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 375

The CLASSIC OF THE CLASSICS, the PHOTOBOOK OF THE PHOTOBOOKS.
IF YOU NEED A PHOTOBOOK, THEN THIS - for sure.

Welcome to the auction by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany) in honor of „French photobooks“.
To celebrate the 55th edition of ‘’Les Rencontres d’Arles’’, we have gathered 110 photobooks (55 each).

The first French edition was published by Robert Delpire (Paris) as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series.
Including writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck, that Delpire positioned opposite Robert Frank's photographs.

IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE.

Delpire, Paris. 1958. First edition, first printing.

Original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg (as issued). 215 x 192 mm. 172 pages. 83 black and white photos. Photos: Robert Frank. Text in French.

Condition:
Inside excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside very fresh and much more better than usual; light trace of use only. No bumping (often the case), strong binding (often with problems); no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine, much more better than usual condition.

Breath-taking photobook in great condition - in the VERY SCARCE, TRUE FIRST EDITION WORLDWIDE.

Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and went to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1959, which gave rise to a distinct new art form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy, made in 1959. His other important projects include the book Black White and Things (1954) the book Lines of My Hand (1972) and the film Cocksucker Blues (1972). Frank s work has been the subject of major exhibitions around the world and is included in many significant public and private collections. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.