BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87). Say, is this the U.S.A., New York, 1941, 4to, monochrome photographed illustrations, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR.

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87).  Say, is this the U.S.A. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 4to (307 x 215mm). Half title, monograph photographed illustrations by Margaret Bourke-White (title spotted and stained, occasional light spotting, mainly to text). Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (the jacket with a small section torn away from lower edge of upper wrapper, some creasing, lightly browned and stained). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Although the tone of the book is generally up-beat about contemporary American life, some of the photographs and captions draw attention to the stark injustices of racial segregation, as embodied in the so-called "Jim Crow Laws", which were not officially, and fully, overturned until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.