“I won't be forgetting, not ever. So long as that man lives I'll feel ashamed, hate myself. I'm different from you. You talk about forgetting. I'll never forget so long as he remembers. I could have killed him. I wish I had.”
From the authors of Porgy and Bess, presented here is the Heywards’ adaptation of DuBose’s 1929 novel—a story of three generations of black women struggling to break free from prejudice and poverty, set in Charleston, South Carolina.
Author: Dorothy and DuBose Heyward
Title: Mamba’s Daughters: A Play
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, 1939
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 182p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, sunning to spine panel, and toning—in new dust jacket cover. Boards and spine clean with edge wear and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid with forward lean. Hinges and joints all fully intact. Pages toned with instances of foxing.
Comments: Collectible copy
