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Very Good. Limited edition #582 of 1200 signed by P.H. Polk on limitation page. From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light staining to slip case. Pages unmarked. Prentice Hall Polk studied photography at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. He later became the school's official photographer and maintained a studio in Tuskegee from 1939 until his retirement in the early 1980s. His photographs celebrate the national and local elite, as well as the working-class residents of the region. Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, limited issue. Essay by Pearl Cleage Lomax. Large square quarto. Illustrated with sixty-two full-page photographs by Polk, each identified by subject matter and by date of image, photographed by Polk between 1929 and 1943. Quarter brown and beige cloth with Polk's signature in facsimile in gilt on front board. Fine in a bit soiled else near fine slipcase. African-American photographer Polk was born in Bressemer, Alabama in 1898. He photographed primarily at Tuskegee Institute and environs, after enrolling as a student in 1916, where he studied photography. He worked as a portrait photographer in Atlanta in the 1930's and eventually returned to Alabama and became the 'official photographer' at the Tuskegee Institute. Copy of 858 of 1200 numbered copies Signed by Polk. Additionally inscribed by the photographer on the limitation page to an African-American poet: "Best wishes to Bob Hughes, P.H. Polk."
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P. H. Polk. 11.75"x12.25" Limited & Signed by Polk; 1/2 brown & cream buckram over boards, gold titles, tan endpapers / pastedown, & lush black & white photo reproductions; Cream buckram slipcase; A near fine copy with small wear & dust soil to slipcase hardly worth mentioning; 111 pages.
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Near Fine. First edition, limited issue. Essay by Pearl Cleage Lomax. Large square quarto. Illustrated with sixty-two full-page photographs by Polk, each identified by subject matter and by date of image, photographed by Polk between 1929 and 1943. Quarter brown and beige cloth with Polk's signature in facsimile in gilt on front board. Light foxing on boards, else near fine in heavily foxed slipcase. African-American photographer Polk was born in Bressemer, Alabama in 1898. He photographed primarily at Tuskegee Institue and environs, after enrolling as a student in 1916, where he studied photography. He worked as a portrait photographer in Atlanta in the 1930's and eventually returned to Alabama and became the 'official photographer' at the Tuskegee Institute. Copy of 858 of 1200 numbered copies Signed by Polk. Additionally inscribed by the photographer on the limitation page to an African-American poet: "Best wishes to Bob Hughes, P.H. Polk."
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Fine. First edition, deluxe issue. Essay by Pearl Cleage Lomax. Large square quarto. Illustrated with 62 full-page photographs by Polk, each identified by subject matter and by date of image, taken between 1929 and 1943. Quarter brown and beige cloth with Polk's signature in facsimile in gilt on front board, in publisher's two-part lidded box. Faintest toning, about fine. The deluxe issue, copy number 10 of 25 numbered copies Signed by P.H. Polk, with hand selected sheets, and with an original silver gelatin print photograph ("The Boss, 1932"), printed and Signed by Polk housed in a separate chemise. The book concludes with a 12-page essay devoted to photographer P. H. Polk by Pearl Cleage Lomax entitled, "...Take my Picture, Mr. Polk.." and is Signed by Lomax at the end of the essay. The original silver print, measuring 8"x10" is signed by Polk in the lower margin of the original photograph. African-American photographer Polk was born in Bressemer, Alabama in 1898. He photographed primarily at Tuskegee Institute and environs, after enrolling as a student in 1916, where he studied photography. He worked as a portrait photographer in Atlanta in the 1930s and eventually returned to Alabama and became the "official photographer'" of the Tuskegee Institute. While the trade issue is relatively common, this deluxe issue is rare with *OCLC* noting a single copy.
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P.H. Polk. Fine. Exquisite black & white photographic portraits. Square 4to, beige and brown cloth, beige cloth slip case. (Atlanta): Nexus, 1980. Limited First Edition. A fine copy. One of 1200 signed and numbered copies. A monograph of the work of P. J. Polk, one of the most important African-American photographers of the last century.
