PORGY: A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS ... From the Novel

by DuBose Heyward. The Theatre Guild Acting Version by Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward

$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Garden City: Published for The Theatre Guild by Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Octavo, orange wrappers printed in black over stiff boards. First printing of the play version. First printing with first edition on copyright page. The play version based on Heyward's 1925 novel. Later adapted in 1934 by the Gershwin brothers as the opera Porgy and Bess. FPAA III, p. 154.

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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