Doris Ulmann Julia Peterkin Roll Jordan Roll 1933 Gullah South Carolina Gravure

Description: Roll Jordan Roll Julia Peterkin Doris Ulmann Photographer Roll Jordan Roll. Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann Photographer. New York. Robert O. Ballou. 1933. SECOND printing in 1934. Hardcover. Lacking the dust jacket. Good plus. The cloth is blue used by Ballou, the book's original publisher, which went bankrupt in 1934 and was bought out by Bobbs-Merrill who then used red cloth. 70 photo gravure illustrations by Doris Ulmann. Ulmann's photographs in the Pictorialist Modernist mode capture the lives of former slaves and their progeny on a South Carolina plantation along the Gullah coast which still magically evokes a bygone world. Roth, Book of 101 Books, p. 78-79. Good Plus. Blue cloth. Title on spine in faded. Fading to the edges of the front board. Fading to the top third of the rear board. Internally, prior owner name to the first free endpaper. Some discoloration to the pastedowns, endpapers and half title page. A very few spots of foxing to the pastedowns, endpapers, half title page and title page. The entire text block, which begins on page 9, and all plates would grade very good to near fine, tight, unmarked, and unfoxed. However the cover is worn, faded, and soiled in spots. A bit of fraying at the corners, head and tail of spine. Hinges sound. Binding solid. Superlative photographs. A presentable and attractive copy. Thick octavo, 251 pages. A legendary collaboration of Julia Peterkin's empathetic text and Doris Ulmann's moving photographs. Scarce. Charming. Second printing.

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