Julia Peterkin Doris Ulmann (24 results)
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Published by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: TomeAfterTome, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.TomeAfterTome
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Text by Julia Peterkin. The Photographic Studies by Doris Ullman. 251 pp. Illustrated with photographic studies by Doris Ulmann. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean and light sunning to spine and front blue board. Some pages toned.…Inscribed in red ink, first blank page, "Edith Tyner Bray, Heath Wood, Colombia, South Carolina, 1935.". Doris Ulmann (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Aeon Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.Aeon Bookstore
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Scarce 1st trade edition of this important study and history of slavery in the US, with rich photographs throughout. From the home of a tobacco smoker, and there some evidence of it, particularly with some darkening to the spine panel and the edges of the front and back panel of the board…s, as well as a sense of odor, thought mixed with general old book smell, that is detected by this sellers nose. Binding general solid, with a slight lean to it, and opening very slightly wider at certain pages. No threat of splitting or any damage. Boards generally clean and firm, with aforementioned toning. Cloth is rubbed down at all corners, including the foot and crown of the spine. Interior is without damage or marks, though the pages are age toned evenly and then further toned at the margins. Text still legible and not too much of a detraction all told. Now in mylar, a very decent copy of this nearly 100 year old book which serves even today as a very vibrant document of America's dark past.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 251pp.; HB blue w/blk.; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; heavy sun on spine; edges w/sun; lt.tape,ft.endpaper;some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. History of US slavery. b/w photos. Ulmann, Doris (photos) (illustrator).
Published by Robert O. Ballou: NY
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: Fair. New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. 1st edition, trade issue. 8vo Hardcover. 251pp. B/W illustrations. Good book, no dust jacket. Covers and spine sunned. Pastedowns slightly dampstained. In polypropylene bag. (african americans, social life and customs, plantation life ) Inquire if you need further information.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1934
- Hardcover
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Downtown Brown Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second Printing. An account of African American life on Lang Syne, one of the largest plantations in South Carolina, written by the novelist Julia Peterkin and photographed by New York heiress Doris Ullman. "Ullman's soft-focus photos?rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure… reproductions here?straddle Pictorialism and Modernism, even as they appear to dissolve into memory. But if there's a romantic haze in the air, Ullman is more clear-eyed than sentimental about her subjects. Stripped of their veneer of self-conscious artistry, many of her pictures would not be out of place in a Farm Security Administration photo essay"?Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pages 78?79. I count 70 plates, reduced from the 90 of the limited edition issue. Second printing (stated). Nicely rebound in full blue morocco with gold tooling. Some of the plates are printed too dark and lack contract. Pencil notations of three pages.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, IN 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. First edition thus. Hardcover. 251 pages. The trade issue, preceded by the Robert O Ballou deluxe edition and trade edition. Features text by Peterkin. Includes 70 photographs by Ulmann. A very good copy in red cloth boards with fraying and wear to the spine ends and some other minor wear and in an about fair…dust jacket with the spine missing but with the front and rear panels and flaps present with some small chips and wear. Uncommon.
More imagesPublished by Bobbs-Merrill, New York 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA
Contact seller4-star seller1st trade edition, 2nd impression. The 70 pages of photographic studies of slaves by Doris Ulmann are stunning portrayals of the lives of African Americans in the South. This edition uses the original sheets printed by Ballou in 1933 (he is referenced on the verso of the half-title) with the Bobbs-Merrill title page. An unusual…issue, the result of Ballou's bankruptcy and subsequent purchase by Bobbs-Merrill. 8vo, 251pp, 70pp photogravure illustrations. Publishers red cloth, title in black, with a damaged dust jacket with 2 rather large chips in it, one at the spine head, one at the lower front panel. Cloth with a couple of light marks, inner hinge papers are cracked but holding well and very clean internally.
Published by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First trade edition, first issue. Octavo. 251pp. Illustrated from photographs. Blue cloth. Spine sunned, modest wear on the boards, about very good and lacking the dustwrapper. Peterkin's text about the descendants of slaves on a coastal South Carolina plantation, accompanied by 90 of Ulmann's in…spired and exceptional photographs. A classic collaboration which brought out the best in both of the participants. *Roth 101*.
Published by Robert O. Ballou, New York, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1933 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.Sutton Books
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Condition: very good. Hbk 251pp illustr b+w photos including frontispiece and 75 double-sided plates lacks dj very good clean dark blue cloth over fine firm boards showing some fading to stamped gilt spine titles but still legible and now housed in removable custom acetate jacket light even toning to both endpapers and text bloc…k with its deckled edges book will be supplied altogether a very good clean tight unmarked copy.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Limited Edition, #229/350. Quarto, [12], 13-341 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's three quarter white linen, embossed brown paper boards, spine with gilt lettering. Top edge of textblock gilt. Some staining and discoloration to spine, particularly along hinges, from water. Tide-marks along upper and…lower gutter throughout volume, in some cases touching the plates. Lacking publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures after photographs by Ulmann depicting the formerly enslaved alongside their descendants in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. All plates with tissue guards, one tissue guard loose. Some offsetting from photogravures, as usual. With the additional signed photogravure loose within, a duplicate of the photogravure on page 129. Some offsetting to front pastedown and endpaper from photogravure. "When all the sisters' feet are washed, the basins and towels are handed over to the brothers, who wash each other's feet." [page 124]. WP consignment. Shelved in Case 3. "Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll, and its black population the subject of Ullman's photograph.Ulmann's soft-focus photos - rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here - straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" [Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pages 78-79]. 1367221. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, deluxe issue. Folio. Quarter white linen and brown papercovered beveled boards in original cardboard slipcase. 90 hand-pulled gravure photographic plates with tissue guards present. Moderate toning or spotting on the spine, else near fine in the rare original papercovered cardboard… slipcase with some professional internal reinforcement. Internally all of the images are fine. Additionally accompanied by the extra original photographic print Signed by Ulmann, laid in to the book as issued. This is copy number 10 of 350 numbered copies Signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann, of which 327 were offered for sale. The low number in this copy (number 10) would seem to indicate that this was one of the 23 copies not for sale and reserved for the author and photographer. Also laid into the book is a bookseller's receipt dated in 1980, sending the book and noting it was bought from William Peterkin, Peterkin's grandson. Additionally, a brief note from Julia Peterkin is laid in on Lang Syne Plantation stationary in 1930, predating the publication of the book. Peterkin's text, about former enslaved people and their descendants on a plantation in the coastal Gullah region of South Carolina, is accompanied by Ulmann's spectacular deep and rich, hand-pulled gravure photographs, including 18 that were not included when the trade edition of the book was published. Issued with the additional photographic print present and laid in, which is now seldom found in the company of the book itself. Peterkin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist from South Carolina learned Gullah from her Black nursemaid, and she later married the heir to the plantation where this book and pictures were set. An absolutely magnificent book, in our opinion one of the high spots of American book production, and seldom encountered with both the slipcase and the loose print present. Roth. *The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century* p. 78-79.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Condition: Near Fine. First Limited Deluxe Edition. No. 286 of 350 deluxe copies, signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann, and binding by J. F. Tapley Co. With extra plate, signed by Ulmann, here loose. One of the milestones of photo books as well as literature relating to Black America. Classic depiction of ex-slaves and their offsp…ring in the Rural South. 90 full page photos rendered as copper plate photogravures. The photos are especially sharp, and in their observational depth and lyrical quality, exude a visual poetry. They capture a spirit as they tell a story. Ulmann was celebrated for her pictorialism, and her photos were the equivalent of the best genre paintings. 4to. 30 by 22 cm. 341, [1] pp. Spine has brown discoloration by its extremities. Touches of soiling on board's paper pastedown. Interior is tight, generally clean, with tissue guards all present, typical offsetting, here on the lighter side. Extra plate stained by lower edge in strip 2 to 3 cm, and a closed tear about 2 cm in length, and a few other trivial ones along this edge as well. Corners lightly bumped. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Spine a cream colored cloth.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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Cloth. Condition: Very good. Limited Edition. Quarto, [10], 13-341pp, [1]. Original brown paper-covered boards, three-quarter white linen corners and spine. Title in gilt on spine, portrait stamped in blind to front cover. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, foxing to cloth, some rubbing to gilt title on spine. Housed in the publis…her's brown slipcase, small points of restoration with archival glue to corners. Complete with 90 full-page photographs depicting former enslaved peoples, their families, and their homes. All plates remain vibrant, most lacking tissue guards. Includes an original photograph by Ulmann, laid-in at front with her signature in pencil on the bottom right corner. Stated on limitation page: "Of this special edition of Roll, Jordan, Roll, 350 copies, each numbered and signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann, have been printed by letterpress and copper-plate photogravure. Of these 327 are for sale. This is copy number 122, signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann on the colophon." This collaboration between Ulmann and Peterkin focuses on a group of former slaves and their descendants in the Gullah region of South Carolina. This is the first appearance of the text, followed by the first trade edition published the same year. The signed limited edition of Roll, Jordan, Roll with text by Julia Peterkin and photographs by Doris Ulmann, complete with 90 photographic plates. (illustrator). Signed.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC, Clemmons, NC, U.S.A.Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC
Contact seller2-star sellerHardcover in original quarter white linen and brown paper-covered beveled boards. Housed in a modern custom clamshell folio box covered in brown cloth w/ leather spine label. This is hand-numbered (in ink on the colophon) copy #124 of 350 (327 sold) of the First Limited Edition. Signed by author and photographer. 8.5" x 11.75",…341 pp, 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures with modern tissue guards. The plates are all immaculate with virtually no markings of any kind on the rag sheets and with only slight rubbing on the front panel and rear endpaper. Julia Peterkin won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary in 1929. "No happier collaboration could be conceived than that of Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann in a book which has for its subject the colorful life of the American Negro of the South. Mrs. Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary, and Bright Skin have won for her a deserved reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the American black man's life. Doris Ulmann's photographic studies have similarly made her a foremost figure in the field of art. This book is a powerful picturization, in two mediums, of the Southern Negro. Julia Peterkin says of the book: 'I have tried to put down here things which will give as full a picture of Negro life in the South as I am able to give, matters which I want to see in print before they are forgotten.". Doris Ulmann (illustrator).
Published by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First trade edition, first issue. Contemporary gift inscription in pencil: "For Jennie with Harleston's love. Charleston April '34" on front fly, light sunning along the topedge of the boards else near fine in very good dust jacket with old internal repairs, and…a couple of small chips at the crown. Peterkin's text about the descendants of slaves on a coastal South Carolina plantation, accompanied by 75 of Ulmann's inspired and exceptional gravure photographs. A classic collaboration which brought out the best in both of the participants. There was also a limited edition of three hundred copies signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann, now prohibitively expensive.
Published by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerThe Text by Julia Peterkin. The Photographic Studies by Doris Ullman. 251 pp. Illustrated with photographic studies by Doris Ulmann. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. A near fine copy, the cloth bright and unworn with a few very slight marks; unopened; with a small ownership stamp on the front free… endpaper; in a jacket with some light edgewear and a few nicks.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Stated First Printing. Near fine in finely woven dark blue cloth stamped brightly in gilt on the spine. Very clean and tight throughout; with a previous owner's name in ink on the front endpaper. Merest touch of rubbing to the top edges of the spine; front bottom corner lightly bumped. With brigh…t blue top-staining. In a striking pictorial dust jacket. With the original price of $3.50 at the bottom of the front and reart inside flaps. Very light wear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends. Touch of soiling to the white margins of the rear panel. First issue jacket with the rear panel advertising 7 titles, beginning with Steinbeck's "To A God Unknown," and ending with Goethe's "Faust," translated by Alice Raphael. All 71 full-page photographic gravures are present. A collector's copy of this landmark work. One of the great documentary photographic books of the 1930's, examining the lives of black plantation workers in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. The idea for the book was originally conceived by American photographer Doris Ullman (1882-1934), who met Julia Peterkin at a literary gathering in 1929 - the same year Ullman had undertaken a project to create a volume of photographic studies of African Americans throughout the South. Ulmann's portraits of the Gullah people were taken on the Lang Syne plantation, owned by the family of Peterkin's husband; paired with text and stories written by Peterkin, Ullman's portraits of the former slaves and their descendants have long been praised for both their quality, and the sense of dignity they convey. Many times scarcer in an attractive jacket than the signed, limited issue, published the same year. (Blockson).
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSigned Limited First Edition. Signed limited first edition. Author Julia Peterkin's own copy, number #3 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Peterkin on the limitation page. Presuambly the first few copies were given to the publisher, author, and photographer. Lette…r of provenance from a descendant of Peterkin laid in. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates and with an additional original signed photogravure. 342 pp. Bound in publisher's original brown paper boards over half cream cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Lacking slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards, front hinge a bit free, light foxing to contents, typical offsetting from photos. A very clean, attractive copy. "Ulmann's photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll. Ulmann's soft-focus photos-rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here-straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" (Roth, 101 Books).
More imagesPublished by Bobbs-Merrill [circa 1934, c.r. 1933], New York 1934
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Seller: Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, Durham, NC, U.S.A.Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition thus. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [circa 1934; c.r. 1933]. 251 pages. Illustrated with 70 full-page reproductions of photographs (including the frontispiece, all printed with the text). Original red cloth with black spine lettering. 22 x 16 cm. Very good plus in very good or better dust jacket. Light soiling to top ed…ge; free endpapers partially tanned; a little marginal soiling or foxing to the half-title; marginal smudge to one plate, not affecting image. Old gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The jacket has some light edgewear and a few tiny tears, with a few old tape reinforcements on the verso, and some rather faint soiling. Still an attractive example. The binding is sharp, the text and plates are clean, and the jacket is bright with none of the usual fading to the spine panel. EARLY TRADE EDITION AND THE FIRST BY THIS PUBLISHER. Uses the same sheets as the first trade edition published by Robert Ballou (first printing,1933; second, 1934) with a new title page. Ballou's imprint is retained on the verso of the half-title. The acquisition of this title by Bobbs-Merrill (the publisher of Julia Peterkin's literary works) reflects the end of Robert Ballou's short-lived venture to establish his own publishing house (1932-35), which succumbed to the financial pressures of the Depression. See Ada Fan, "Robert O. Ballou," in Dzwonkoski, ed., "America n Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980", p. 33. Scarce with the dust jacket in this condition. Turnbull V, p. 351.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Baillou [1933], New York 1933
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, Durham, NC, U.S.A.Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
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Condition: Very Good. First edition, limited and signed. New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933]. 341 pages. 90 full-page, hand-pulled photogravures (including the frontispiece, all reckoned in the pagination). Lacking the extra photogravure plate, which is a duplicate of one of the images in the book, that is found laid-in with most… copies. Early full vellum with gilt spine and cover lettering and gilt centerpiece on the front cover. 29 x 22 cm. Near fine. The photogravures are all in excellent condition. The text shows some very faint offsetting from the plates throughout, and a half dozen or so of the text pages show moderate foxing. Tissue guards, laid-in throughout, appear to be recent replacements. Housed in a plain linen slipcase, evidently of the same vintage as the stunning custom binding. FIRST EDITION. #44 of 350 COPIES SIGNED BY JULIA PETERKIN AND DORIS ULMANN. One of the most celebrated American photobooks, "Roll, Jordan Roll" provides a stunning portrait of rural African American life in the low country of South Carolina. Most of the photographs were taken at Lane Syne, the plantation home of author Julia Mood Peterkin (1880-1961), located near Fort Motte in Calhoun County. Peterkin had previously published "Green Thursday" (1924), a collection of short stories, "Black April" (1927), her bestselling first novel, and "Scarlet Sister Mary" (1928), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Her last novel, "Bright Skin" appeared in 1932. During her short career, she garnered praise from both whites and influential blacks for her sympathetic depictions of African Americans and her rendering of the Gullah dialect. A wealthy New Yorker, Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) studied photography with Clarence H. White, a former colleague of Alfred Stieglitz. She was admired for her technical virtuosity, and her photographs were exhibited at prominent studios in New York and other major cities. Much of her early work consisted of portrait photography of notable members of society, including several series on physicians and prominent literary editors. However, her focus soon shifted to studies of rural America, including Shakers and other religious sects, traditional Appalachian craftspeople and musicians, and Native American communities in North Carolina. While she continued to live in New York, where she had an apartment and studio on Park Avenue, Ulmann traveled widely for her work. In the spring of 1929, during one of her trips to the South, she met Julia Peterkin, and the pair quickly formed a deep and lasting friendship. Ulmann's visits to Lane Syne solidified her commitment to documenting African American life and provided her with a rich source of subject matter. The resulting collaboration between author and photographer, "Roll, Jordan Roll", was first issued in a trade edition in December 1933 and received widespread critical acclaim. James Weldon Johnson wrote that ""Roll, Jordan Roll" is the most beautiful and charming book about plantation Negroes of the deep South that I know of. Doris Ulmann's photographs alone will work a great change in the general ideas about the Southern rural Negro." qt. in Jacobs, "The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann", p. 126. However, the reproductions of the photographs in the trade edition were disappointing, to Ulmann as much as anyone. This was rectified the following month with the issue of this sumptuous, limited edition, which offered a larger format, text finely printed in letterpress on wove paper, and most importantly, photogravures that did justice to Ulmann's camera work. Andrew Roth writes, "Ullman's soft-focus photos -- rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here -- straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" --"The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century", p. 78. IN ADDITION TO THE SUPERB QUALITY OF THE REPRODUCTIONS, THE LIMITED EDITION ALSO OFFERED TWENTY IMAGES THAT DID NOT APPEAR IN THE TRADE EDITION. The original publisher's binding.
Published by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Trade Edition. First Printing, preceded by a limited edition of 350 copies. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 251pp; illustrated with 70 full-page photographs by Doris Ulmann. Hint of sunning to spine ends, some trivial wear to corner tips, with a tiny splash ma…rk to topstain; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine-sunned, modest wear to joints and extremities, with shallow loss to crown, several tiny nicks and tears to extremities, and a 2" split at lower front flap fold; Very Good+. One of the great documentary photobooks of the 1930's, examining the lives of black plantation workers in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. The idea for the book was originally conceived by American photographer Doris Ullman (1882-1934), who met Julia Peterkin at a literary gathering in 1929 - the same year Ullman had undertaken a project to create a volume of photographic studies of African Americans throughout the South. Ulmann's portraits of the Gullah people were taken on the Lang Syne plantation, owned by the family of Peterkin's husband; paired with text and stories written by Peterkin, Ullman's portraits of the former slaves and their descendants have long been praised for both their quality, and the sense of dignity they convey. Many times scarcer in an attractive jacket than the signed, limited issue, published the same year. BLOCKSON 3932; ROTH 101. PARR-BADGER, Vol.1, p.135.
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Condition: Near Fine. Signed Limited First Edition. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 346 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates and… with an additional original signed photogravure. Bound in publisher's original brown paper boards over half cream cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Lacking the original slipcase but housed in a custom cloth chemise case; tissue guards replaced though originals are present and laid into a custom-made compartment in the slipcase. Near Fine. Neatly recased, light rubbing and color retouching to covers, contents lightly foxed at edges. Toning, light edge wear and light soiling to additional signed photogravure. "Ulmann's photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll. Ulmann's soft-focus photos-rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here-straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" (Roth, 101 Books).
More imagesPublished by Robert O. Ballou, New York 1933
- First Edition
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean and light sunning to spine, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed at the extremities with wear at the head, foxing and light staining.
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Bauman Rare Books
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First Edition. "ULMANN, Doris and PETERKIN, Julia. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). Large quarto, original gilt-lettered three-quarter linen, brown paper-covered boards with imprinted image of an African-American woman on the front cover, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $25,000.Sign…ed limited first edition, number 115 only 350 copies (327 of which were offered for sale) signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin. With 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure platesthis copy with the scarce extra photogravure plate signed in pencil by Ulmann laid in."Ulmann's photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll Ulmann's soft-focus photosrendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions herestraddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory" (Roth). This deluxe edition should not be confused with the trade edition which was issued in a significantly smaller format and with fewer plates which were printed in half-tone as opposed to photogravure. The extra signed photogravure plate that was issued only with this deluxe edition replicates the image that appears opposite page 28. Few copies of this deluxe edition had been distributed at the time of Ulmann's death in 1934; most were donated by her heirs to the Tuskegee Institute to be sold for that school's benefit. Without scarce original slipcase. Plates and text fine, minor foxing and staining to boards. A nearly fine copy of this beautiful work.". Signed.
