PORGY: A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS ... From the Novel by DuBose Heyward. The Theatre Guild Acting Version. 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. Spine panel a bit sunned, light wear along outer joints at lower spine end, tiny spot on rear cover, a very good copy. Quite a nice copy of this fragile book. (#163814).
Price: $1,000.00
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First edition so stated on copyright page.
First edition so stated on copyright page.