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ULMANN, DORIS. Roll, Jordan, Roll.

ULMANN, DORIS. Roll, Jordan, Roll. Text by Julia Peterkin. Illustrated with 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures after photographs by Ulmann. Large 4to, embossed brown boards with white linen spine and tips, areas of light soiling; scattered plates with evidence of dampstaining on verso, otherwise internally bright and clean; top edge gilt; original matching boards slipcase, defective. Roth 78; Parr/Badger I 135. one of 350 numbered copies, signed by ulmann and peterkin on the colophon, and issued with an extra photogravure plate, signed by ulmann. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933)

  • Notes: with--Three Men Gathering Cotton. Photogravure. 8 1/4x6 1/2 inches (21x16.5 cm.), with Ulmann's signature, in pencil, on recto. 1933.


    The scarce deluxe edition of Ulmann's exquisitely illustrated book. Few copies of this edition had been distributed at the time of Ulmann's death in 1934. Most were donated by her heirs to the Tuskegee Institute, and were sold for the school's benefit.
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