Maum Nancy (Signed copy)
Limited edition, signed by Susan Merrick Heywood
Author
Susan Merrick Hayward, illustrated by Wilbur G Kurtz
Publisher
Mabel Loeb & Virginia Pairo, Atlanta, Georgia, 1937
Printing Details
First edition. Hardback in slipcase, limited to 500 copies, this being No. 144. 25 × 17cm, 82pp, with loose sheet inserted giving the author's history and location of The Big House in the story.
Signed to the ffep by Susan Merrick Hayward.
Life in a big house in Beech Island, South Carolina, and the house's management by Nancy, a member of its domestic staff.
Condition
The book is in good condition, with a previous owner's inscription as well as the author's. Some light fading to the boards and tanning to the spine. The pages' fore-edge is untrimmed but clean, and the book is in strong readable condition. The slipcase has very heavy surface wear and is chipped to all edges and the decorative paper label is almost worn off.
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