HEYWARD, DuBose.

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Porgy. First edition, with a clipping inscribed by the author mounted on the front pastedown, "Inscribed for Thomas C. McNally with the regards of DuBose Heyward". The novel was adapted into a 1927 play by Heyward and his wife, Dorothy, and a 1935 opera by George Gershwin.Although we have been unable to trace the recipient, McNally's ownership signature dated October 1925 and bookplate are on the front pastedown and free endpaper respectively.

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