Between the Covers

Hardcover. Deluxe edition. Folio. Quarter white linen and brown papercovered beveled boards in slipcase. 90 hand-pulled gravure photographic plates with tissue guards present. Copy number 81 of 350 numbered copies Signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann. Moderate staining on the spine and the boards, faint stain at the corners of the title page and the following page not affecting any images, else very good in a worn and stained example of the now rare original papercovered cardboard slipcase, with wear and some loss. Internally all of the images are fine. Additionally with the the original photographic print Signed by Ulmann laid in as the book was issued.

Peterkin's text, about former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the coastal Gullah region of South Carolina, is accompanied by Ulmann's spectacular deep and rich, hand-pulled gravure photographs, including 18 that were not included when the trade edition of the book was published. Issued with an additional photographic print present and laid in, which is now rarely found in conjunction with the book itself. Peterkin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist from South Carolina learned Gullah from her black nursemaid, and later married to the heir to the plantation where this book and pictures were set.

An absolutely magnificent book, in our opinion one of the highspots of American book production, and rarely encountered with both the slipcase and the loose print present. Roth. *The Book of 1010 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century* p. 78-79.

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