Les Américains (The Americans) - True 1st

First French edition (true first preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year) of Les Américains (The Americans) by Robert Frank (1958)

First impression 

Medium format hardback in good condition 

This is a well loved copy

General shelf wear and toning to extremities of boards

Some sunning to spine, please note top of spine has been repaired

True first edition (preceeding the US edition by a year) in VG+ condition. There is a previous owner inscription to inside of front cover - the book was owned by photographer Nick Hedges

There is also a small bookshop sticker (probably the place of purchase) close to gutter on inside of front cover

Some slight toning to extremities of pages 

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm 

Text in French 

Contains text by Simone de Beauvoir, Bernard Iddings Bell, John Brown, Erskine Caldwell, F.R. de Chateuabriand, Stephen Crane, John Dewey, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, André Siegfried, John Steinbeck, Adlaï Stevenson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harry S. Truman, George Washington, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright

Introduction by Alain Bosquet

About

The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society.