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Hutchisnon, 1932T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. on half bound pink and red cloth

NY:: Howard Frisch,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0910638004 . First printing thus. Very good in a very good (ring impression on front panel, age toning) dust jacket. .

London: Hutchinson Book. Poor. Paper Covered Boards (Hard Cover). First Edition.. 101pp; Illustrated with b/w photos; A selection of writings chosen by Noel Coward including URDLER, JANET; DUNN, ELIHU; MAUNDERS, E.A.I.; TAO LANG PEE; LLIAVANOV, SERGE et al; Covers sunned and lacks spine strip; Previous owner's signature to ff.e.p.; Size: 16mo.

Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The book is undated but would appear to be circa 1932. The boards are little rubbed, slightly faded and edge worn. The spine is a little discoloured. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. Spine very slightly sunned, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. A satiric "anthology" from the works of Albrecht Drausler, Serge Lliavanov, Janet Urdler, Elihu Dunn, Ada Johnston, Jane Southerby Danks, Tao Lang Pee, E.A.I. Maunders, Crispin Pither, Juana Mandragágita, translated by Lawton Drift.

London: Hutchisnon. This is a Good Copy of this hardcover book in pink cloth with red cloth spine lettered in dulled gilt.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.There is one previous inscription to the front endpaper.This copy was acquired from the impressive private library of Film Director Roy Ward Baker and the book bears his name to the front endpaper.Baker started in the film industry as a gofar boy,but worked his way up to the level of as assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938).He served in the Army during World War II, transferring to the Army Kinematograph Unit in 1943. One of his superiors at the time was novelist Eric Ambler who insisted on Baker being given his first big break directing The October Man, from an Ambler screenplay, in 1947.Ambler also adapted Walter Lord's A Night to Remember for Baker's 1958 screen version.His next two films, The Weaker Sex and Paper Orchid (1949) were popular but overshadowed by the success of Morning… Read More

Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1933,. 1933. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, viii,87pp, photo illustrated, owner's name on endpaper, contents clean and sound, green cloth, spine rubbed and browned, Good / no dustwrapper .

Hutchisnon, London, 1932.. Good. 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 99pp, 11 plates, owner's name written on endpaper and stamped on title verso, otherwise clean and tight, rebacked retaining original pink boards and quarter cloth, board edges faded, Good / no dustwrapper .

Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., London [1932] Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 101pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards with somewhat faded spine lettering. With a frontispiece and ten photographic portrait of 'the authors'. Corner tips rubbed and with some fading to the cloth at the backstrip ends where the dust wrapper is defective, and to the upper margins of both boards. Some fox-spotting. Faint ghost of partially erased former owner name pencilled to the front free endpaper. A good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, alas a somewhat nicked, chipped, dust soiled, creased and torn example with several inches of loss from the spine panel ends, and several further fractions of loss from the corner tips and extremities. A satirical anthology of woefully poor verse, penned by Coward but accredited to a series ridiculously named imaginary poets: Elihu Dunn, Tao Lang Pee, Serge Lliavanov, Juana Mandragágita, Crispin Pither &c, each selection… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York, 1933. A Satirical Anthology. American 1st/1st. VG/G. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. Book is tight and square with solid hinges. Mild soiling to green boards. Soiling to top fore-edges near spine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($1.50) and Good. Moderate soiling and wear to tips and spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart cover. This "anthology" by Noel Coward presents deadly parodies of august poets. It contains brief biographies, selections of poems by made-up poets and each accompanied by a hilarious black & white portrait.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Good. Williams [?] (dust jacket). 12mo. Pp. 101. Frontis. Coward photo portrait. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions on coated paper. Half red cloth, magenta patterned paper covered boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, laid paper, title and half title pages in red and black: head and tail edges sunned, gilt titles dulled, lower corners rubbed, edges and some leaves lightly foxed, some portrait leaves loose. In the three color illustrated dust jacket: spine ends and head edge chipped, spine darkened and edges chafed, edges rubbed. A parody: ten poets invented by Coward with short biographical introductions, photo portraits, and examples of their verse. Beautifully printed. The dust jacket illustration has every hallmark of E. McKnight Kauffer, but the signature appears more as "Williams" than "Kauffer," unless it's a tortured "E. Kauffer." No reference of this design appears in E. McKnight… Read More