"Mady: A Novel of a Negro Girl's Search for Security" Signed by Author

Anne Healy

First Edition

Healy, Anne P. Mady. New York: Exposition Books 1962. Signed by the author on front blank endpaper. First edition. 228 pages, 5.5" x 8." Jacket bears front illustration of a blue-eyed woman with the tagline, "A novel of a Negro girl's search for security. She could pass anything...except the color line." Back jacket contains author photograph, a blonde woman who appears to be white. Published by a New York vanity press, Mady is the story of a white-passing Black woman as she falls madly in love with a Jewish lawyer. Inscription reads, "To Etta Berenstein - Love and xx to papa -- from Anne Healy July 1963." Moderate shelfwear, small chips and tears to dust jacket. In very good condition.

Item #19077

Price: $125.00