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Roll, Jordan, roll / the text by Julia Peterkin ; the photographic studies by Doris Ulmann.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Folio Schimmel Fiction 6238
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961, author, autographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural African Americans--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Rural African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
- African Americans.
- Plantation life--United States.
- Plantation life.
- Plantation life--United States--Pictorial works.
- Gullahs.
- Gullahs--Pictorial works.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Ulmann, Doris, 1882-1934 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 341, [1] pages : portraits ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- [Special edition].
- Manufacture:
- [York, Pennsylvania] : Letterpress by The Maple Press Company
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Robert O. Ballou, publisher, [1933]
- Notes:
- "Of this special edition of Roll, Jordan, roll, 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."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Half white linen over brown paper boards; title, author's and photographer's names, and publisher stamped in gold on spine; blind-stamped bust portrait on left board; untrimmed fore- and tail edges; gilt tops; housed in slip case.
- Schimmel Collection copy is an unnumbered copy (with "H. L. B." written in place of the number) of a limited edition of 350 copies, each numbered and signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann. See colophon.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy without slip case; tissue guards for illustrations laid in.
- Schimmel Collection copy has laid in [4] leaves of printout of an email exchange between Caroline F. Schimmel and Ellen Handy.
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 90A
- OCLC:
- 1039667016
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