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GERSHWIN, George.
Porgy and Bess.
An Opera in Three Acts ... Libretto by Dubose Heyward. Lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
First edition, first printing, limited issue being one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian.
Quarto. Original red hard-grained morocco, top edge silver, Japanese paper endpapers, titles to spine in blind. With the original raffia slipcase. Housed in a red cloth box. Colour frontispiece and title-page illustrations by George Biddle. Spine a little darkened, slipcase a little frayed but an excellent copy. Apparently lacking the black morocco title labels to the spine and upper board.
