ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL ... THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES BY DORIS ULMANN

Book Description

New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933].. Large octavo. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis and plates reproduced in offset gravure after photographs. Trace of sunning along extreme top and bottom edges, otherwise a fine, bright copy, with the vulnerable spine stamping bright and fresh, in very good dust jacket with a few thin streaks of rubbing, a small chip at the lower tip of the upper joint, and an old, externally mended creased tear at the top corner of the rear panel. First edition, first U.S. issue of the trade issue. Sheets from this printing were also exported to Jonathan Cape for the British issue, and in later years (ca. 1935), additional sets of sheets were bound up by Bobbs- Merrill with a cancel title-leaf and different binding. Ms. Peterkin's prose sketches of southern African Americans, accompanied by Ulmann's photographic portraits, add up to a memorable collaboration in documentation that has become somewhat uncommon in this condition.

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