Buy this book on-line DAY, BARRY - Edited by: : the letters of noel cowardLONDON.METHUEN DRAMA/A & C Black Publishers Limited,2007. ISBN 9780713685787.
Heavy UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. Donor's neat,inked gift presentation inscrptn+ date to front free endpaper and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,subject's monochrome portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj with brown,white and gold coloured lettering to front,thumbnail monochrome portrait photograph repeated to spine with similar lettering,and critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges bright and clean with a few minor blemishes,fore-edges without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a sewn-in maroon silk bookmark ribbon, and plain maroon endpapers.Heavy UK,thick 8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+3-780pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/ tables,author's introduction,Pts One - Four, comprising 6,9,5 and 12 chapters/sections and each with 1,3,and 2 intermissions - no intermission(s) in Pt Three though, respectively,profuse contemporary b/w auto+ biographical photographs,b/w facsimile ephemera illustrations,line illus and handwriting examples etc.,all interspersed throughout the text and the book,permissions and an index.Plus [unpaginated] blank with advert for author's other works to reverse,half-title with subject's b/w portrait photographic frntis to reverse, title page,a dedication,title separator page with a subject's b/w portrait illustration by Derek Hill to its reverse,a preface of a Noel-dedicated couplet rhyming poem by Kate Mary Bruce (Somerset Maugham's favourite niece),Pts separator pages,two with a subject's contemporary b/w photograph,one a b/w facsimile theatre flyer and a poem,and to the rear, illustration credits,a note on type,composition and design and 2pp blanks.
With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure.Coward's multifaceted talent as an actor,writer,composer,producer and even as a wartime spy(!),brought him into close contact with the great,the good and the merely ambitious in film,literature and politics.
With letters to and from some of the most famous names in history: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf,Winston Churchill,Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her),Marlene Dietrich,Ian Fleming,Graham Greene,Alec Guiness, Gertie Lawrence,David Niven,Lawrence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin,FD Roosevelt,the Queen Mother and many more,the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships,and a re-examination of the man himself.
Deliciously insightful,witty,perfectly bitchy, wise,loving and surprisingly moving,this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best,from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.
A highly collected and legendary figure,and an unusual item in Coward's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Noe Coward canon.
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