Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Play Parade: Design for Living, Cavalcade, Private Lives, Bitter Sweet, Post-Mortem, The Vortex, Hay Fever by Noël Coward with no dust jacket. First Edition unstated, 1933 Garden City. First printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Good condition with clean, cloth boards with faded title gilt on a tilted spine and rolled and heavily rubbed spine ends. Also with, toned page blocks, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, mild edge wear, and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and evenly toned.
No dust jacket.
Play Parade by Noël Coward is a 1933 hardcover book that contains a collection of plays by the renowned author. The book, originally published by Garden City Publishing Company Inc, as part of a three-volume collection. This is the first volume, which included seven plays in 576 pages. The plays were Design for Living, Cavalcade, Private Lives, Bitter Sweet, Post-Mortem, The Vortex, Hay Fever. This volume includes an 11-page Introduction written by the playwright.
