[WOMEN / EARLY TURKISH FEMINIST LITERATURE / KUNSTLERROMAN] احمد فردی / Ahmed Ferdi

DERVIS, SUAD (1905-1972). Kitabhane-i Sudi / Orhaniye Matbaasi, Istanbul, AH 1339 = [CE 1923]. Contemporary full black cloth with gilt lettering of the title and the initials of the book’s former owner on the front board and spine, featuring Art Nouveau floral blind tooling. The original, attractive pictorial cover is preserved inside. The title calligraphy and cover design are both striking, signed by “Nuri”. Contemporary front and endpapers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 191, [1] p. Occasional foxing to pages, otherwise an excellent copy. The first edition in book form of this story collection by Suad Derviş, a prominent Turkish novelist, journalist, advocate for women’s suffrage, and co-founder of Devrimci Kadinlar Birligi [i.e., the Socialist Women’s Association of Turkey]. Dervis’s story collection Ahmed Ferdi is one of three story collections published in 1923, following her first novel Kara Kitap [i.e., The Black Book, 1921]. The sto