Brass Ankle: A Play in Three Acts (SIGNED, NUMBERED, LIMITED FIRST EDITION)
On Murray Hill / New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931. Signed, Numbered, Limited First. Hardcover. SIGNED. NUMBERED, LIMITED FIRST EDITION, 1931 WITH SLIPCASE. Signed by DuBose Heyward on the back limited edition page in bold ink. 46/100. Hardcover. Bound in quarter bright yellow cloth and textured black paper. Cover bears blind stamped title. Spin bears a gilt label surrounded by a black border and title lettered in black. All edges deckled. Leaves are laid paper. 133 pp. Protected by a parchment-like dust wrapper. Slipcase is geometrically patterned in black, yellow and white with a thumb cut.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRITE & THIS PLAY: Edwin DuBose Heyward (1885 to 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. It was later adapted as a 1959 film of the same name. Heyward also wrote poetry and other novels and plays. Heyward wrote the play Brass Ankle, produced in 1931 in New York. The title refers to a Southern term for a person of mixed-race ancestry, and was long used in a pejorative way. The play addressed issues of mixed-race, featuring a couple in a small southern town who have grown up believing they were white and learning about some African-American ancestry. Reviewers treated his play favorably as a version of the "tragic mulatto" genre, but it was not a commercial success. (Wikipedia).
CONDITION: Book is in fine condition. Minor offsetting within endpapers on the opposite page of where the dust wrapper ends. Author's signature is bright and bold. Slipcase is VG with some wear, particularly at the corners. Bottom edge has a 1 inch piece removed, but does not significantly compromise or weaken the integrity of its structure. A phenomenal copy. Full refund if not satisfied. Fine / Fine.
8vo.
Item #068894
Price: $900.00