Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Social life and customs [Browse]
• African Americans—Social life and customs—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Plantation life—United States [Browse]
• Plantation life—United States—Pictorial works [Browse]

Photographer (expression

• Ulmann, Doris, 1882-1934 [Browse]

Publisher

• Ballou, Robert O. (Robert Oleson), 1892-1977 [Browse]

Former owner

• Harris, Ray Baker, 1907-1963 [Browse]

Printer

• Maple Press Company [Browse]

Binder

• J.F. Tapley Co. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Bookplates [Browse]
• Authors' inscriptions [Browse]
• Limitation statements [Browse]
• Half bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Photogravures (prints)—United States—20th century [Browse]

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.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

United States New York New York.

LCCN

34010068

OCLC

1039667016

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