Pomp and Circumstance, Noël Coward — 1st Edition

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Pomp and Circumstance, Noël Coward — 1st Edition

Name: Pomp and Circumstance, Noël Coward — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 6930
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Publication: London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1960

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 305.

Condition Report Very Good. The blue cloth binding remains exceptionally sharp and tight, with unbruised corners and gleaming silver gilt typography to the spine. Internally, the text block is sound, though the top and bottom page edges exhibit typical moderate tanning and scattered foxing commensurate with the era's paper stock. The original pictorial dust wrapper is bright and highly presentable, retaining its original '18s' price flap; it shows only minor shelf-wear, limited to slight rubbing at the extremities and fractional nicking to the spine head and corners.

Catalogue Note First edition, first printing. Marking Coward’s debut as a novelist, this vibrant production notably features a wrap-around dust wrapper designed by the author himself. An attractive, unsophisticated copy that features a striking photographic portrait of Coward on the rear panel.

A sparkling, razor-sharp comedy of manners set on the fictional British colonial island of Samolo. When an impending royal visit throws the expatriate community into a frenzy of social climbing and frantic preparations, a scandalous aristocratic love triangle threatens to upend the island's fragile hierarchy, delivered with Coward's trademark wit and sophisticated theatricality.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Noël Coward

Book Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Classic Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 305

Book Publication Year: 1960

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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