ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL. de Peterkin, Julia and Doris Ulmann (photos)

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Edition (1933.) Hardcover lacking dust jacket. 8vo with 251 pages. The book is in fair condition with rubbing and fading to spine. Front free end paper is missing. Incredible photography by Doris Ulmann. A classic. Blue spine/gold text. #033940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ. 8vo. Black History.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933. 1st 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.

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Hardcover. 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 inspired and exceptional photographs. A classic collaboration which brought out the best in both of the participants. *Roth 101*.

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 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.

Robert O. Ballou, New York, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1933. 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 block with its deckled edges book will be supplied altogether a very good clean tight unmarked copy

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Edition. 8vo; 251pp, with 75 photographs on double-sided plates, including frontispiece; original blue cloth, gilt spine, edges faded about 1/8 in, endpapers a bit aged toned, jacket chipped along all edges rubbed ("E" in Peterkin missing on spine) with creases on both front panel, very good in used jacket. Julia Mood Peterkin (1880-1961), South Carolina native, lived on her husband's two-thousand acre plantation and also had a summer home at Murrell's Inlet, a coastal village. She wrote, with realism and dignity, plantation stories and stories of the Gullah African American tenant farmers of the Sea Islands and coastal regions. She was a sympathetic and outstanding commentator of the lives of this vanishing black culture. Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was a well-respected photographer of the period who specialized in portraying the people of the "Southern Highlands" Appalachia and the coastal blacks Peterkin wrote about. Ulman's photographs of now vanished worlds… Leer más

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine/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.