PORGY

by Du Bose Heyward, Theodore Nadejen, novel, illustrations

$3,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. An attractive copy of Heyward's wildly successful novel centered around a crippled street beggar living in the Black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina in the 1920s, who becomes involved in a drama of love, jealousy, and murder. Heyward and his wife, Dorothy, a playwright, adapted the novel for a 1927 stage play of the same name, though it was their later work with

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