Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Post-Mortem: A Play in Eight Scenes by Noël Coward, complete with no dust jacket. First Edition stated, 1931 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 the previous owner’s book plate on the front paste down and their signature and an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with moderate surface wear, heavy edge wear, and the $3.00 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
This is a play, in eight scenes, a devastating comment on the post-war world. It’s a brilliant, barbed, and passionate indictment of a world that learned nothing from the war. Author Noel Coward writes with a deeper and mordant style than ever at the time, making this novel a must read.
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