Feb 26, 2013 - Sale 2304

Sale 2304 - Lot 32

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
ULMANN, DORIS.
Roll, Jordan, Roll.

Text by Julia Peterkin. A lavish title illustrated with 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures after photographs by Ulmann depicting former slaves and their descendents on the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. Large 4to, 1/2 gilt-lettered white linen over embossed brown boards, scattered staining and wear; off-setting, but overall the plates are clean and bright; top edge gilt. Roth 78; Parr/Badger I 135. one of 350 copies signed and numbered by ulmann and peterkin on the colophon.
New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933)