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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Independently published, 2021
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40153631: 1948. In-8. Broché. Parfait état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 59 pages. Texte sur 2 colonnes. . . . Classification Dewey : 792-Théâtre.
Published by George H. Doran Company, New York, NY, 1926
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Winifred Lefferts (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The lettering on the spine has noticeable rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper has several spots of foxing and finger dirt. The dust jacket has edge wear, several tears, nicks and small chips along with rubbing to the spine and flap joints. The Spine is noticeably toned and soiled. The book is scarce in dust jacket. By the author of Porgy. "Du Bose Heyward was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the city in which porgy is laid, and has lived there practically ever since. His family were of the finest Colonial stock, left impoverished by the Civil War and by the period of Reconstruction which followed." "Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy, which was adapted by his wife Dorothy into a 1927 play. The stage Porgy inspired the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin, which was later adapted into a 1959 film. Heyward also wrote poetry and other novels and plays, as well as the children's book The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939).".
Calmann-Lévy, éditeurs 1947. In-12 broché de 198 pages, au format 18,5 x 12 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur frais. Exemplaire non coupé, avec petit manque de papier au bord d'une page. Complet de la superbe jaquette illustrée par René Brantonne, sans restaurations au verso. Traduit de l'anglais par Denise Clairouin. Préface de Daniel Halévy. Superbe état général. Edition originale, rare dans un tel état de fraicheur. Le roman fut d'abord adapté au théatre en 1927, sous le titre Porgy & Bess, puis en opéra en 1935. L'auteur et son épouse Dorothy en rédigèrent le livret et George Gershwin en composa la musique. En 1959, Otto Preminger, adapta l'opéra en un film musical, avec dans les rôles principaux, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ruth Attaway. Ces trois uvres traitent de la vie des Afro-Américains dans le quartier fictif de Catfish Row à Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, au début des années 1930, à travers l'histoire de Porgy, un mendiant noir estropié vivant dans les taudis de Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, qui tente de sauver Bess des griffes de Crown, son concubin, et de Sportin Life, qui veut la prostituer.
Published by New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, [circa 1938-1940]., 1940
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Signed
Reprint (first published by Doran in 1925) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 196 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket front panel (with overlap to spine) features figural foreground pictorial illustration and Charleston, SC background predominately in shades of blue and black and credited to Rex Walker at lower left. Dj has some toning and soiling plus nicks and short tears at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth; pink stamping to spine and front board; slight fraying to spine head; light bumping at bottom board corners. Pinkish-purple top edge; deckle fore-edge. Light toning to endpapers; past bookseller pencil marking on front free endpaper along with author's four-line black ink inscription "Inscribed for | Robert E. Harper | by | DuBose Heyward." Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. Conforming to Grosset & Dunlap's standard practice, the book's copyright page utilizes Doran's original publication date (1925) but this reprint was actually issued sometime between 1938 and 1940 for the dj rear panel title list includes Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" which was only issued by Scribner's on October 15, 1937 and Grosset would certainly not have been able to secure reprint rights until the following year at the earliest.