Gershwin, George THE THEATRE GUILD PRESENTS PORGY AND BESS, [PRINTED VOCAL SCORE], NEW YORK: GERSHWIN PUBLISHING CORPORATION, [1935], SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GERSHWIN, IRA GERSHWIN AND ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, TO ALEXANDER SMALLENS, THE CONDUCTOR OF THE PREMIERE including an AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION BY GERSHWIN, from 'Bess you is my woman now' (inscribed "To Alex Smallens In happy memory of a most pleasant association with you on "Porgy & Bess", George Gershwin Oct. 22. 1935"), in blue-black ink under the frontispiece portrait, and a small caricature ("For Alex") on the title FIRST EDITION, [4 &] 559 pages, 4to ( c. 29.5 x 22.5cm), printing error on p.538 ("opinior"), without Ira's bowdlerizations to the libretto, contemporary blue cloth boards, Alexander Smallens's bookplate and initials on spine ("A.S."), programme for the premiere at the Colonial Theatre Boston tipped in, a few annotations and cuts marked in pencil, lacking wrappers and the "Story" leaf preceding the music, extremities rubbed
Gershwin, George THE THEATRE GUILD PRESENTS PORGY AND BESS, [PRINTED VOCAL SCORE], NEW YORK: GERSHWIN PUBLISHING CORPORATION, [1935], SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GERSHWIN, IRA GERSHWIN AND ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, TO ALEXANDER SMALLENS, THE CONDUCTOR OF THE PREMIERE including an AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION BY GERSHWIN, from 'Bess you is my woman now' (inscribed "To Alex Smallens In happy memory of a most pleasant association with you on "Porgy & Bess", George Gershwin Oct. 22. 1935"), in blue-black ink under the frontispiece portrait, and a small caricature ("For Alex") on the title FIRST EDITION, [4 &] 559 pages, 4to ( c. 29.5 x 22.5cm), printing error on p.538 ("opinior"), without Ira's bowdlerizations to the libretto, contemporary blue cloth boards, Alexander Smallens's bookplate and initials on spine ("A.S."), programme for the premiere at the Colonial Theatre Boston tipped in, a few annotations and cuts marked in pencil, lacking wrappers and the "Story" leaf preceding the music, extremities rubbed
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