Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Roll, Jordan, roll / the text by Julia Peterkin ; the photographic studies by Doris Ulmann.
Call Number
Oversize E185.6 .P46 1933q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3n204288w
Publisher
New York : Robert O. Ballou, Publisher, [1933]
©1933
Language
English
Date Created
1933
Extent
341 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Notes
Plates included in page count.
Plate signed by Doris Ulmann laid in.
"Of this special edition ... 350 copies, each numbered and signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann, have been printed by letterpress and copper-plate photogravure. Of these 327 are for sale. Letterpress by The Maple Press Company. Photogravure by the Photogravure and Colour Company. Binding by the J.F. Tapley Co. This copy is number [blank]."--Colophon.
SAX copy: Marquand Library holds copy 236 of 350.
SAX copy: Engraved bookplate on front paste-down ("Ray Baker Harris"); author's inscription on binder's flyleaf ("Inscribed for Ray Harris with all good wishes, Julia Peterkin"); hand-written letter by photographer on her stationary tipped in between binder's and publisher's flyleaves.
SAX Copy Purchase supported by the Elise and Wesley Wright, Jr. ’51 Marquand Book Fund
Binding Note
SAX copy: Half bound in cream publisher's cloth and brown paper, gold-titled, leather spine label, binder's stamp in blind on rear board.

Discovery Information

Subject
African Americans—Social life and customs
African Americans—Social life and customs—Pictorial works
Plantation life—United States
Plantation life—United States—Pictorial works
Photogravures (prints)—United States—20th century
Insertions (Provenance)
Bookplates
Authors' inscriptions
Limitation statements
Half bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
358

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c538a553-f177-4f9a-a465-103ef71483f0/manifest