Porgy & Bess
By: libretto for the opera by DuBose Heyward, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin (the music was composed by George Gershwin), with sixteen lithographs by Kara Walker
Contributors: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937; Walker, Kara Elizabeth, lithographer; Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, lyricist; Hoyem, Andrew, book designer; Sanchez, Maurice, printer of plates; Arion Press; ArjoWiggins (Firm); Derrière L'Étoile Studios
Publisher: The Arion Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Librettos
Other titles: Porgy and Bess
Work titles: Porgy and Bess
Notes: "Porgy and Bess is the ninety-eighth publication of the Arion Press. It was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Blake Riley, Lewis Mitchell, Brian Ferrett, Christopher Godek, Mark Sarigianis, Leif Erlandsson, Sarah Songer, Rochelle Youk, Diana Ketcham, Lyssa Black, Thomas Gladysz, and Kaelyn Davis. The edition is limited to four hundred numbered copies for sale and twenty-six lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Of this edition, forty of the numbered copies are accompanied by an extra suite of four lithographs. All copies of the book and the extra suite of prints are signed by the artist. The types are Craw Clarendon, Craw Clarendon Modern Bold, Lining Gothic, News Gothic, and Gloria, printed letterpress on French mouldmade Johannot paper. The lithographs were printed by Maurice Sanchez at Derrière L'Etoile Studio NYC. Those in the book are on a heavier weight of the same paper used for the text."--Colophon.

Issued in black cloth slipcase.