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Roll, Jordan, Roll
by Peterkin, Julia [Text]; Doris Ulmann [Photographs]
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
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).
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140943734
- Title
- Roll, Jordan, Roll
- Author
- Peterkin, Julia [Text]; Doris Ulmann [Photographs]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert O. Ballou
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- American South, the south, black history, black, african american
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gravure
- ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...