first edition Hardcover
1934 · London
by Peterkin, Julia; Doris Ulmann
London: Jonathan Cape. Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth stamped in gilt along the spine. Stains to the fore-edge pages. Rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards and rear board. Topstain still solid. Owner name to the front pastedown endpaper. Binding sound, lacking the dust jacket. Ulmann provides the images for Peterkins's narrative account of the lives of former slaves and their descendants, members of the Gullah community of the South Carolina barrier islands. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century].; 251 pages .
(Inventory #: 23655)