Porgy

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). First edition. Full-page illustrations preceding each chapter and dust jacket illustration by Theodore Nadejen. Adapted by Heyward with wife Dorothy, a playwright, in 1927 for the play of the same name. They later worked with composer George Gershwin on the 1935 light opera, "Porgy and Bess." Basis also for the 1959 Otto… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran, (1925). First Edition. Theodore Nadejen dustjacket art and decorations. Author's most remembered work on African American life. Title was a successful Broadway play starring Jack Carter and Peter Clark. An uncommon First Edition. This copy presumably from the library of pulp author H. Bedford Jones with what appears to be his ownership signature at… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First edition. Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's dark purple cloth, gilt-stamped, spine faded and edgeworn, very good. First edition. Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Heyward's novel Porgy was adapted as a play and then an opera - Porgy and Bess - with… Read more about this item

Dunwoody: Norman S. Berg, nd. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards and spine show some light foxing, previous owner's blindstamp on second prelim, else a very good hardback bound in publisher's yellow cloth and issued without a jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. The Charleston Edition. Octavo. 196pp. Illustrated with etchings by Elizabeth Verner. Bound in blue leather with the spine gilt and a gilt, decorative inlay on the cover. Unusually expressive marbled endpapers (a bit chipped) and pastedowns; all edges gilt. The binding is Signed on the rear… Read more 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… Read more about this item

First edition, first printing. Book is in excellent condition. Noticeable shelf wear at top and bottom of spine and very slight wear and bumping at corners. Slight scuffing on front cover Otherwise in fine/near fine condition. Pages are clear, clean and without tears, marks or foxing. Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess was based on this book. From… Read more about this item

New York:: George H. Doran,, [1925].. First edition, later issue.. publisher's mauve cloth in dust jacket.. A bright, near fine copy in jacket with two pieces of tape on verso, slightly darkened spine, with minor use at joints and extremities.. 8vo,.

New York: George H. Doran, 1925. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 196 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in purple cloth with black lettering. Boards have sunning to spine, rubbing to corners, and bending to spine edges. Textblock has mild to moderate foxing to pages. Shelved Room A. 1374582. Special Collections.

NY: George H. Doran Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. First edition with publisher's device to CP. Mild bumping; slight bubbling, slight insecting to cloth. Toning to endpages, rear endpage browned from a paper previously laid in; PO name/address to rear endpage. Sound square copy. The DJ in mylar… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First edition, later issue. Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Purple cloth. Spine faded. Very Good. First edition, later issue. Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Heyward's novel, Porgy, became a play and then an opera (Porgy and Bess) with music by George Gershwin.

New York, NY Penguin Books , 1945. Paperback First Edition Thus [1945), so stated. First Edition Thus [1945), so stated. Good in Wraps: shows some creasing to the panels; moderate wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; the pages have tanned just a bit, due to aging; light sunning to the wine-toned areas of… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Blk cloth with pink letttering; spine . edges and corners repaired ; No marks or writing, clean tight binding;. 1925. Second Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Mary Mace Spradling, a notable Kentucky Afro American who authored In Black & White, Africo American in Print ; book is basis… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine faded, boards worn, owner name . penciled on half-title, pages toned.. 1928. early printing. Hardcover. xxi, 203pp. Black cloth titled in red. Illustrated endpapers. The play based on Du Bose Heyward's novel of Gullah characters in South Carolina. With an introduction on… Read more about this item

George H. Doran Company, 1925. Hardcover. Good/None. Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen with illustrations on each chapter title page. Mild sparse discoloration to boards with faded gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Corners and spine ends bumped and faintly frayed. Spine is faded. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked though tanned.… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Book in good condition,minor wear. Loose binding.

(New York): Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. 196pp. Illustrated in black and white by Theodore Nadejen. Age-toned pages with light wear to the spine foot, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chips, short tears, and rubbing. This novel was the basis for George Gershwin's famous opera, Porgy and Bess.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library with the usual labeling. General shelf wear. Spine repaired with black cloth booktape. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Grosset & Dunlap, January 1925. Hardcover . Good/No Jacket. Tight binding, mildy warped from storage; Clean, sturdy black boards, gently edge-worn; Ex-library w/ typical markings, text otherwise free of markings; A solid copy, w/o jacket.