ULMANN, Doris, & Julia Peterkin.

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Roll, Jordan, Roll. First edition of "one of the earliest print documentaries" of African-American life in the South (ANB), number 217 of 350 large paper copies signed by the author and photographer, and containing 20 more images than the trade issue. This copy is accompanied by the additional gravure signed by Ulmann, which although not called for in the colophon, was intended to be included. Few copies retain the slipcase; about half have evidence of water damage and give credence to the widely held idea that a flood in the photographer's storeroom destroyed many copies. This collaboration focuses on the lives of second- and third-generation "free blacks" in the Gullah region of South Carolina. "Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir to Lang Syne, one of the state's richest plantations, which became the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll" (Roth).

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