Porgy and Bess
Subtitle: an opera in three acts
By: Libretto by Du Bose Heywood; lyrics by Du Bose Heywood and Ira Gershwin. Production directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Contributors: Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940; Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983; Biddle, George, 1885-1973, illustrator; Reichl, Ernst, 1900-1980, designer of book; H. Wolff Book Bindery (Firm); Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1935
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Operas; Vocal scores with piano
Work titles: Porgy and Bess
Notes: "Limited edition published by arrangement with Gershwin Publishing Company ... Frontispiece and title page decoration by George Biddle. Design by Ernst Reichl. Binding by H. Wolff, New York"--Verso of title page.

"Of this limited first edition of PORGY AND BESS, 250 were printed in October 1935"--Colophon.

Bound in dark red straight-grain morocco stamped in gold and blind; front cover has black leather inlay with title stamped in silver; rice-paper endpapers, upper edge silver.

LC has copy no. 5 autographed below the colophon by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, and Rouben Mamoulian. Autographed also on front flyleaf by George Gershwin and twenty cast members. Has the bookplate and ms. initials of Rouben Mamoulian.