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First Edition Signed
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.