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ULMANN, DORIS, A Portrait Gallery of American Editors, Being a Group of XLIII Likenesses. With Critical Essays by the Editors and an Introduction by Louis Evan Shipman.
New York: William Edwin Rudge (printed by Bertha M. Goudy at the Village Press), 1925. No. 194 of 375 copies. Folio. 43 photogravure plates with tissue guards; [ii], xii, [2], 177 (plates reckoned in pagination). Buckram-backed blue boards, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Light dampstain to lower edge of a few leaves, not affecting plates or text; nick to bottom edge of front cover; else Near Fine. ΒΆ Includes portraits of Mencken, Shipman, Edna Woolman Chase of Vouge, Samuel McClure, Herbert Croly of the New Republic, Carl Van Doren of the Nation, and more; each editior contributing a short essay. Mencken asks, of the abundance of American periodicals, who could read them all? "Only that man, I believe, who was born a lifetime too soon and will die a lifetime too late." Despite Mencken's cantakerousness, the book is a beautiful group portrait of some of American letters' great figures of the early 20th century. A rare item from Doris Ulmann. Known today for her images of Southern sharecroppers, her studio images, reproduced here in lush photogravure, are underappreciated
Offered for US$ 1000.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 220571