Ullman Doris (4 results)

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 143 pages. Foreword by John Walsh. Introduction and text by Judith Keller and with additional writings by William Cllift, David Featherstone, Weston Naef, Charles Hagen, Ron Pen, and Susan Williams. Includes over 50 black and white images. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Ullman, Doris (illustrator). Unpaginated, 63 black and white photographs. Contents pages clean and unmarked, slightly dusty around edges but otherwise in excellent/fine condition. Soft cover with b&w photo on front has dust marks, fading around edges, slightly curling at corners and chipped at top and bottom of spine. Rememberance by John Jacob Niles and preface by Jonathan Williams. The Jargon Society have collected these haunting photos in an act of 'cultural husbandry' as a reminder of the deep roots and character of these impoverished and vanishing southern Americans.

In the July 1927 issue of The Mentor (All-American Number). Magazine complete. Ullman's article with numerous photographic illustrations is on pp. 41-50. Also includes a fine article by Douglas Branch on the American Cowboy, an article by Lula Merrick on the painter James R. Hopkins entitled He Paints the Cumberland Mountain Folk, and an article by Charles Phelps Cushing on the Ozarks (al articles with numerous illustrations). Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. One of 350 copies (327 for sale) signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullman, with an additional photogravure signed by Ullman. 341 pp. Complete, with all ninety copperplate photogravures and accompanying tissue guards. Publisher's half buff cloth over blindstamped brown paper boards. Spine titled in gilt. Slight bubbling to cloth at spine. Some faint scuffing to boards. With the publisher's brown paper slipcase, somewhat scuffed. A Fine copy in the Very Good+ slipcase. Roll, Jordan, Roll is a photographic account of the Gullah people, the descendants of enslaved Africans living in the coastal areas of the southern United States. Begun in 1929, Ullman's project spanned several years, producing a series of portraits that are "rich in tonal range and unified in soft focus.[and] reveal a distinct photographic account, attuned to the dignity and grace of Gullah people" (MoMA). Roll, Jordan, Roll is now regarded as one of the finest photography books of the twentieth century and is praised for its portrayal of Black subjects as dignified individuals rather than stereotypes. Julia Peterkin, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary, provided the text for the book. Fine.