Megda by Forget (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original brown cloth with floral stampings in black to front board and spine. Gilt titling remains bright to both front board and spine. Tiny amount of rubbing to board corners. Pages moderately age-browned, but NOT fragile or crumbling. Original floral endpapers; hinges have needed no repair. B&W frontispiece still protected by original tissue guard. Emma Dunham Kelley (later Emma Durham Kelley-Hawkins, 1863-1938), who published her first novel, "Megda" (1891) under the pseudonym "Forget-Me-Not," was long considered a pioneer of African-American women's literature. Her novel was rediscovered by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and served as an inspiration for him to compile the 40-volume Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers in 1988. Recent genealogical research, however, indicates that Kelley-Hawkins was, in fact, white or identified herself as white (see National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 94, No. 1, March 2006.) 394 pp. followed by 6 pp. publisher's ads, including for the Rev. John Alden's "A Pilgrim Family," Mrs. M. Carter's "Beulah Land," and S. Fannie Gerry Wilder's "Boston Girls At Home and Abroad." Here reduced from $150.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Light normal age/use wear including minor age toning, slightly cocked binding and some spine scuffs/rub marks. 394 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G/none, used hc, 394pp. VINTAGE BOOK Illustrated with black outline of leaves on upper with brown colored text on gilt circle on upper and leaf illustration and gilt text on spine; edge wear with frayed tips; fabric at head and tail of spine has split; scuffed. Interior pages clean, unmarked; age-toned and fragile from age. Rear hinge cracked. Otherwise, binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Reprint edition, with 1892 on the title page. Brown boards with brown decoration and gilt medallion on the front board. Title in gilt on the spine. Floral endpapers. Spine ends and corners somewhat worn. Front hinge torn. Previous owner's name pencilled on the title page. Two leaves are loose. Leaves are browned around their edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.