A True Likeness by Roberts, Richard Samuel - [1994]: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936

Writers & Readers Publishing, [1994]. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 4to. [6], 200 pp. Bound in full plum cloth, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece self-portrait by Roberts and black and white photographs throughout. A selection of portraits from Roberts' archive of over 3000 glass negatives documents the lives of his subjects- Columbia South Carolina's African American community- as well as his studio, equipment and backdrops. Fine, bright, clean copy in Very Good dust jacket with several small pit scars to front cover and overall scuffing.