Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first US hardcover edition, first printing of Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts by Noël Coward, with no dust jacket. First Edition stated, 1930 Doubleday Doran. First printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, cloth boards with faded title gilt on a tilted spine and stronger gilt on the front decoration. Also with, clean page blocks, tight binding, moderate spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
No dust jacket.
Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope.
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