ULMANN DORIS Roll Jordon Roll

Sale 2097 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 33,600

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000

ULMANN, DORIS. Roll, Jordon, Roll. Text by Julia Peterkin. Illustrated with 90 full-page, hand-pulled copper photogravures with the original protective tissue guards after photographs by Ulmann. Large 4to, embossed brown boards with white linen spine and tips, spine lightly soiled; top edge gilt. Roth 78; Parr/Badger 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)

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with--Woman Carrying Basket. Photogravure. 8 1/46 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.