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free market. The publication was described by the Times Literary Supplement as “one of the most influential books published since the war”. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Small stain to top edge, else a fine copy, in near-fine jacket, slight spotting and sunning to spine, minor rubbing and a few indentations, short closed tear at head of rear fold, price intact. £3,250 [153151] 78 FRINK, Elisabeth. The Art of Elisabeth Frink. First edition, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper with a drawing of a couple, “For Daphne and Xan, with love, Lis”, and signed beneath the drawing, “Elisabeth Frink, 30 November 72”. Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions. Book near fine, red text on dust jacket spine faded. £3,000 [152634] London: Lund Humphries, 1972 WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
Secondly, there is the sequencing . . . Ideas ebb and flow, are introduced, discarded, recapitulated, transfigured, transposed, played off and piled up against each other with the exuberant energy of a Charlie Parker saxophone solo” (Parr & Badger). Oblong octavo. Original laminated boards decorated with a design by Saul Steinberg. Illustrated throughout with monochrome plates from photographs by Robert Frank. Bookseller’s ticket (Librairie Galignani) to front pastedown. Boards mildly toned, otherwise clean and bright. A very nice copy indeed. ¶ Parr & Badger I, p. 247; Roth 101, pp. 150–51. £4,000 [152440] 77 FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. With the assistance of Rose D. Friedman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962 DEFENDING ECONOMIC LIBERTY First edition of Friedman’s best-selling work on freedom and the role of capitalism in western society, a canonical text of the neoliberal and libertarian movements. Friedman reclaims the term “liberal” in the 19th- century sense of laissez-faire economics and a small, remote government, and asserts on both practical and philosophical grounds the need to uphold the
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76 FRANK, Robert. Les Américains. Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958 “ARGUABLY THE MOST RENOWNED PHOTOBOOK OF ALL” First edition of Frank’s masterpiece, in which his photographs are accompanied by text by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, and John Steinbeck. Frank’s work “has become so much the photobook of legend in its first American edition that it is often forgotten that Delpire’s original Paris edition was a different book. Its accompanying texts, gathered by Alain Bosquet, placed it more in a socio-documentary context – with a politically antagonistic, even anti- American point of view. What has made this arguably the most renowned photobook of all? Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, the majority of the pictures are instantly memorable, ‘dry, lean, and transparent,’ as John Szarkowski has said of them, yet also weighty and profound, even heartstopping.
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