Publisher/Grove Press

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"The American (US First Edition)" is a collection of photographs by Robert Frank, a great photographer who was born in Switzerland and was active in the United States. "Les Americains" was announced by Delpire in France in 1958, US Edition with different design texts was published in 1959, and since then, reprints have been repeated by numerous publishers in Europe and the United States, and now the art photography world "The Americans" is being reprinted mainly by Steidl, a leading German company. This book is the US First Edition mentioned above by Grove Press. In 2010, at Photobooks Auction by London auction house "Christie's", it was signed at the time of publication and the World Record Price at that time was $ 62,194 (current exchange rate is about 6.6 million yen, but the yen is strong at that time). It seems that it was traded. It is a great collection of photographs that has become the pioneer of pushing photography into art.