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Lot 235

Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019 9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$2,000 - 3,000
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$5,625
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[Ulmann, Doris] Peterkin, Julia Roll, Jordan, Roll

New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). First deluxe edition, one of 350 copies signed by Ulmann and Peterkin on limitation page, this copy out of series. Illustrated with 90 hand-pulled photogravure plates by Ulmann; lacking the additional laid in photogravure plate signed by her; lacking all but two of the tissue guards. Publisher's three-quarter white cloth over brown paper-covered boards, lightly worn, white cloth soiled and slightly darkened, boards slightly faded; front cover with debossed image of an African-American woman, back cover with publisher's device stamped in gilt; spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; slip case wanting; previous owner's note in pencil on front free endpaper: "Compliments of the author & Dr. Holland."

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