Robert Frank

An important presentation copy of the revised and enlarged edition of Robert Frank's The Americans, inscribed to Frank's friend and publisher Motomura Kazuhiko:

• Robert Frank (Swiss-American).
• Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
• The Americans. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
• New York: An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, 1969.
• Oblong quarto.
• [iv], vi, [182] pages.
• Second edition, revised and enlarged.
• Inscribed in black ink: 'To Kazuhiko Motomura / I hope to see you / again / and that we will / become friends / Robert Frank / Nov. 1970 / New York.'
• Black and white photographs printed in 'stonetone' offset by Rapoport Printing Corp., New York.
• Afterword by Robert Frank with details of the four films he made 1959-68.
• Plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles to spine in gold, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, in Motomura Kazuhiko's card sleeve titled in black ink on upper side.