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Roll, Jordan, Roll
by Peterkin, Julia; Doris Ulmann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth stamped in gilt along the spine. Stains to the fore-edge pages. Rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards and rear board. Topstain still solid. Owner name to the front pastedown endpaper. Binding sound, lacking the dust jacket. Ulmann provides the images for Peterkins's narrative account of the lives of former slaves and their descendants, members of the Gullah community of the South Carolina barrier islands. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century].; 251 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23655
- Title
- Roll, Jordan, Roll
- Author
- Peterkin, Julia; Doris Ulmann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First British Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- African Americans -- Social life and customs. African Americans -- Social , life and customs -- Pictorial works. Plantation life -- United States. , Plantation life -- United States -- Pictorial works. Gullahs. Gullahs -- , Pictorial works. Gullahs., FIRS
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Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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