Megda By "Forget-Me-Not" Dunham, Emma (Emma Dunham Kelley) 19Th Century Literature,African American

First edition, variant second issue with 1891 copyright date but 1892 date on the title page, and with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original brown cloth stamped in gold and black, 394 pages, frontispiece portrait of the author. One of the earliest known novels by an African American woman. A Near Fine attractive copy with essentially no wear, mild soiling, top outer page edge with very mild bumped area.