Porgy.

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925].

Price: $1,500.00


About the item

First edition. Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s dark purple cloth, gilt-stamped, spine faded and edgeworn, very good.

Item #254663

Heyward's novel Porgy was adapted as a play and then an opera — Porgy and Bess — with music by George Gershwin.

Inscribed on ffep, “To Helen and Gene Muller/ with affectionate Greetings / from/ Du Bose Heyward / Thanksgiving Day — 1925.”.