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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: new. First Thus. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2008. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket and red wrap-around band. First Edition, First Printing. 180 pages with numerous black and white photographic images.50th-Anniversary Edition of the photographer's classic. Photographs by Robert Frank. Introductory Essay by Jack Kerouac. Book Condition: New/Fine copy in fine dust jacket and fine red wrap-around band/obi. 1958's "The Americans" is the book that established legendary Swiss photographer/filmaker Robert Frank's reputation as one of the great socially conscious post-war essayists. Combined with Jack Kerouac's legendary in your face introduction ("Anybody doesnt like these pitchers dont like potry, see?" ), Frank's images reveal an emerging cold war superpower wrestling with its past as it hurtles toward a decade of tumultuous change. Seller Inventory # 4747