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KELLEY, EMMA DUNHAM. Megda. By "Forget-Me-Not.". Boston: James H. Earle, 1892. 2nd ed. 8vo. 394 pp. Frontis. Orig. cloth. Quite good. $950.00

 

Wright III, 3064, for the first edition of the prior year. Blockson 5850. Not in the LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue. NUC records only two copies of this edition. Long thought to be the first novel by an American black woman, this is a religious novel that avoids racial issues.