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ULMANN, Doris (1882-1934). Roll, Jordan, Roll . Text by Julia Peterkin. New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. 4º (290 x 210 mm). 90 hand-pulled photogravures, and one additional signed gravure laid-in, tissue guards. (Additional plate with light marginal spotting.) Original cream half-cloth and brown boards, front cover blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others rough-trimmed (scattered spotting on the spine, as often); original slipcase (one joint splitting, light wear and light soiling).
ULMANN, Doris (1882-1934). Roll, Jordan, Roll . Text by Julia Peterkin. New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. 4º (290 x 210 mm). 90 hand-pulled photogravures, and one additional signed gravure laid-in, tissue guards. (Additional plate with light marginal spotting.) Original cream half-cloth and brown boards, front cover blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others rough-trimmed (scattered spotting on the spine, as often); original slipcase (one joint splitting, light wear and light soiling). FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE IN THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. One of 350 copies signed by Ulmann and Peterkin, and issued with an additional signed photogravure. 'One of the most singular documentary photobooks of the 1930s' ( The Photobook ). 'Ulmann's soft-focus photos -- rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here -- straddle Pictorialism and Modernism... many of her pictures would not be out of place in a Farm Security Administration photo essay' ( 101 Books ). This copy numbered 262. 101 Books , pp.78-9; The Photobook , vol. I, p.135 (for the trade edition).