"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.