MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01843cam a2200301 4500
001 43048152
003 DLC
005 20130209080832.0
008 830421s1935 nyuag 000 0 eng
010 $a 43048152
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edcrmb
050 00 $aM1503.G376$bP5 1935a
100 1 $aGershwin, George,$d1898-1937.
240 10 $aPorgy and Bess.$sVocal score
245 10 $aPorgy and Bess;$ban opera in three acts.$cLibretto by Du Bose Heywood; lyrics by Du Bose Heywood and Ira Gershwin. Production directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
260 $aNew York,$bRandom House,$c1935.
300 $a[12], 559, [3] p.$bcolor frontispiece, music$c32 cm. in a linen-covered case 33 cm.
500 $a"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.
500 $a"Of this limited first edition of PORGY AND BESS, 250 were printed in October 1935"--Colophon.
500 $aBound 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.
561 $aLC 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.$5DLC
650 0 $aOperas$vVocal scores with piano.
700 1 $aHeyward, DuBose,$d1885-1940.
700 1 $aGershwin, Ira,$d1896-1983.
700 1 $aBiddle, George,$d1885-1973,$eillustrator.
700 1 $aReichl, Ernst,$d1900-1980,$edesigner of book.
700 1 $aH. Wolff Book Bindery (Firm)
710 2 $aRouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC