Lot 424
Coward, Noël - CONTAINS 24 VOLUMES ONLY
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
The Noël Coward song book. London: Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, large 4to, signed by Coward on titlepage, frontispiece portrait, 4 colour plates and one monochrome, original yellow and grey cloth gilt, some slight splitting to hinge, a little fading and bumping to spine, dustwrapper not price-clipped but rather chipped and rubbed, and a little soiled; [Idem] Play parade. London: William Heinemann, 1934. First edition, 8vo, bookplate of M.S. Robertson to front free-endpaper, original red cloth, dustwrapper, some darkening to dustwrapper spine, dustwrapper rubbed; [Idem] The vortex... London Ernest Benn Limited, 1925. First edition, 8vo, Coward's signature loosely inserted on slip of paper, blue cloth with paper labels to spine and boards, a little darkening to pages, some vary slight soiling to covers, label to spine darkened; [Idem] Future indefinite... London: William Heinemann, 1954. First edition, 8vo, signed by Coward and dedicated, "For Sir Malcolm Macguigan[?] of Macguigan[?]", original blue cloth gilt, some light internal spotting, dustwrapper price-clipped with some tears and soiling, some soiling to covers, spine a little faded; [Idem] Peace in our time. London: William Heinemann, 1947. First edition, 8vo, blue cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped but slightly chipped and soiled; [Idem] Suite in three keys... three plays... London: Heinemann, 1966. First edition, 8vo, grey cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped, spine a little faded, a little fading and rubbing to dustwrapper; [Idem] This happy breed. London: William Heinemann, 1943. First edition, 8vo, blue cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped, some fading to spine, dustwrapper slightly soiled, rubbed and chipped with small hole to upper cover over 'T' of 'ACTS'; [Idem] Present indicative. London: William Heinemann, 1937. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece portrait and 28 photographic plates on 14 leaves, modern red half-morocco; [Idem] A withered nosegay. London: Christophers, 1922. First edition, 8vo, black cloth, previous ownership signature to front free-endpaper, a little dust-soiling, covers slightly faded and rubbed, without dustwrapper; 'Whittlebot, Hernia' [Coward, Noël] Chelsea buns. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1924]. 8vo, bookplate of Harold F Thomas to front free-endpaper and gift inscription to paste-down endpaper, black quarter cloth with floral printed boards and paper label to upper cover, some darkening to endpapers and light spotting, coveres slightly browned and bumped; and 15 others (24)