Porgy.
by Du Bose Heyward
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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About This Item
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 the backstrip (the titles thereon remain unaffected: bold and clearly legible); a faint dampstain to the lower half of the front and rear endpapers. the binding leans slightly, but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A well-loved copy, remaining structurally sound and tightly bound, showing moderate wear and several other minor imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.4 x 4.25 x 0.45 inches). 147 pages. The cover art and design is quite distinctive, but unattributed. A short biography and photograph of the author at the rear panel. Language: English. Weight: 3 ounces. Wine-toned self-wrapper covers with black & white titles. First published in hardcover in 1925. Penguin 558. Mass Market Paperback. Edwin DuBose Heyward (1885 1940) was an American author best known for this 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. It was later adapted as a 1959 film of the same name. Porgy is set in the black community of Charleston, which had many Gullah people. African-American poet and playwright Langston Hughes said Heyward was one who saw "with his white eyes, wonderful, poetic qualities in the inhabitants of Catfish Row that makes them come alive." Heyward's biographer James M. Hutchisson characterized Porgy as "the first major southern novel to portray blacks without condescension and said that the libretto to Porgy and Bess was largely Heyward's work
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 56868
- Title
- Porgy.
- Author
- Du Bose Heyward
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus [1945), so stated.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books ,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1945.
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature; Fiction: Collectible Paperbacks; American Popular Fiction; Vintage Popular Fiction; Modern Fiction First Editions;
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