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ULMANN, Doris, & Julia Peterkin.
Roll, Jordan, Roll.
First Edition, First Printing, Trade Issue. There was a special paper issue of an intended 350 copies on better paper, with 90 images and an extra signed proof gravure. Plainly far fewer than 350 were issued since copies turn up infrequently and might be worth now as much as $50,000! A superlative and remarkable work. Ulmann and her cohort headed south when the depression was biting hardest in a chauffeur-driven limousine to make a photographic record of the lives of first and second generation "free blacks". Despite - or possibly due to - the incongruity of the people either side of the lens Ulmann's images remain strangely haunting. Not hard like Lange, or crystalline like Evans, but extraordinary all the same.
Octavo. Original, first issue, coarse blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained black, others untrimmed. With the photographic dust jacket. With 70 full page photogravure illustrations by Ulmann. Text block rather tanned as usual and with more severe tanning to 2 pages from some loosely inserted clipping, spine lettering a little dull as always and with some fading to the head, but a pretty decent copy of this poorly produced book. dust jacket tanned, rubbed and lightly marked with a chip at the top of the spine panel costing the first "Roll".
