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Porgy
by Du Bose Heyward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Germantown, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York : George H. Doran, 1925. First edition, 2nd printing. Title-blocked purple cloth. Hardcover (no jacket) 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages. Condition: near fine - a particularly well-preserved vintage novel tight, bright, clean and strong. There is a prior gift inscription on the front endpaper (please see photos).
About the book:
The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s. The character was based on Charlestonian Samuel Smalls. In some of the novel's passages, black characters speak in Gullah, a creole language that had developed among enslaved African Americans during the slavery years on the Sea Islands.
The novel was adapted for a 1927 play of the same name by Heyward and his wife, playwright Dorothy Heyward. Even before completing the play, Heyward was in discussions with composer George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel. This was produced in 1935 as Porgy and Bess.
About the book:
The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s. The character was based on Charlestonian Samuel Smalls. In some of the novel's passages, black characters speak in Gullah, a creole language that had developed among enslaved African Americans during the slavery years on the Sea Islands.
The novel was adapted for a 1927 play of the same name by Heyward and his wife, playwright Dorothy Heyward. Even before completing the play, Heyward was in discussions with composer George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel. This was produced in 1935 as Porgy and Bess.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camphor Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio767
- Title
- Porgy
- Author
- Du Bose Heyward
- Illustrator
- Theodore Nadejen
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran
- Date Published
- 1925
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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Camphor Bookstore
Biblio member since 2016
Germantown, New York
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First editions, vintage and rare books, some ephemera.
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