The Americans

Grove Press, New York , (1959). 7.25 in. x 8 in., Cloth, Unnumbered pages, substantial fading at spine. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. The First American edition of Frank's groundbreaking approach to documentary photography. This edition appeared one year after the publication of the French edition which does not feature Kerouac's introduction. Stuart Alexander, who produced an extensive bibliography on Frank, states that as many as 2600 copies of this edition may have been printed but the book was remaindered before half of the edition had been sold. (Inventory #: PB43581)