[TURKISH FEMALE POET OF THE FIRST TURKISH POEM FOR "MAY 1"] Feryadlarim [i.e. My screechs]. Biographical introduction by Rifat Necdet [Evrimer]

YASAR NEZIHE [BÜKÜLMEZ], (1882-1971)., Kitaabhane-i Sudi/ Vatan Matbaasi., [H.: 1340], Ist., AD 1924. Contemporary green cloth bdg. Slight scratches on faded cloth, with slight foxing on pages. Overall a good copy. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 238, [2] p., 1 b/w portrait of Nezihe, ills. First and only edition of this exceedingly rare first book including a "May 1" poem, written by a Turkish female poet Yazar Nezihe. Nezihe was considered one of the female poets in the Ottoman Period. She is known as a writer of the first Turkish poem for International Workers' Day on May 1. Yasar Nezihe differed from other female poets of the period in the sense of her life story and a contrary literary identity. Throughout her lifetime, she wrote poems about her penurious and challenging childhood as well as her love life and marriages. Being known as the first female poet whose works were published in Aydinlik Dergisi (i.e. Enlightenment Journal), Yasar