signed first edition Hardcover
1959 · New York
by Frank, Robert, 1924-2019
New York: Grove Press, 1959. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 83 unnumbered black and white full-page photos with brief captions on otherwise blank facing pages. Original black cloth. Oblong (21 x 19 cm.). Some of the gilt is gone from lettering on the backstrip which is also a little faded at both ends. A few light marks on front and back cover. Loss of a little cloth at corner tips. No jacket. INSCRIBED in black ink on front free endpaper by Frank ("To Ray of New Haven 1997 Nov 18. This is the PRESENT .. gone Robert Frank"). Classic photographic work. Six page Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
(Inventory #: 91905)