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Garden City: Doubleday & Company. 1947. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 1st U.S. Edition / 1st Printing. Used. H Hard Cover -. Good. First U.S. edition / First printing. Good to very good in good dust jacket. Book : slight darkening around edges of binding. Dust jacket : spine color faded but lettering still strong, slight soiling to rear panel. 13 x 19. hard cover. 223pp.

London: Samuel French Bound in stiff wraps; previous owners name penned on front cover; 99pp.. Reprint. Soft Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

Garden City:: Doubleday,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. First American edition. Very good in a very good (minor shelf wear, faded along the spine) dust jacket. .

Garden City: Doubleday, 1947 First American Edition. 12mo 7 5/8" tall. Black and grey cloth stamped in violet and gilt with top page edges stained red. 223pp. Presentation bookplate from Priscilla Theatre of Plymouth, Mass. otherwise clean. Tight. no jacket. Near Fine condition..

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. First American Edition. Hardcover. Sunning to DJ with chipping and small open tears. Small inkstamp to front pastedown and front flap; Dedicated to Hugh Beaumont, aka 'Binky, ' a London theatrical impresario, not the actor best known as Ward Cleaver. A rare Coward play in that it tells the story of a middle-class family and not the upper crust; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 223 pages .

Samuel French N/D (c.1945?). Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Garden City, NY, USA: Doubleday & Co, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First American edition. 224pp. Quarter bound in black cloth over grey cloth-covered boards; gilt initials on front, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends, cloth fraying. Edges of boards discolouring. Small bump to outer edge of rear board. Text block edges tanning. Star stamp on front paste down; previous owner's details (in pencil) on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 12mo. The script for The Master's work set in England between the wars.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 223. VG in little chipped and faded dj.

New York: Doubleday, 1947. First. hardcover. fine/very good. 8vo, cloth, d.w. (spine faded). New York: Doubleday, 1947. First American Edition<br/><br/>

1947. New York, Doubleday & Company, 1947. Original half cloth over light grey cloth-backed boards. Gilt littering to spine and gilt NC to front board. Ex-liberary copy with remains of old paper library label to lower part of spine. Library stamp to free front end-paper and title-page. Internally fresh and clean. First US edition of Coward's famous working class drama.

London: Heinemann, 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine and portion of front cover faded, the latter also spotted. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. First edition. A dedication copy "To Hugh ['Binkie'] Beaumont, the play's producer, inscribed by the playwright on the front free endpaper: "For Hugh from Noel Coward." (...all Noel's plays had been presented in England since 1939 [and through the war years] by H. M. Tennent Ltd. [which] was exemplified in the attractive, persuasive, amusingly talkative person of Binkie' Beaumont. Violent and occasional business flare-ups excepted, Noel and Binkie were more than friends: they were the deepest, closest cronies..." (Cole Lesley, 'Remembered Laughter: The Life of Noel Coward', NY, 1976, p. 287). It was Beaumont who had persuaded Coward to return to the stage to act in a trio of plays - This Happy Breed was one - after the latter's nervous breakdown in 1937. Another dedication copy to Beaumont of This Happy Breed was in the sale of Masterpieces of… Read More