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London: Ernest Benn, 1927. First. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Soiling to covers. 1" piece of spine missing. Tear to top of spine. Notes in pencil to rear cover, inside card covers, feps.
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The Marquise. A Comedy in Three Acts
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The Marquise A Comedy in Three Acts
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London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1927. Original Edition. Softcover. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. 8vo. [102] pages plus 4pp of ads. Printed yellow wraps, slightly worn, lightly soiled, very good condition, contemporary owner's name in pencil dated June 27, 1927 on front endpaper. Cotemporary British Dramatists Volume LIII printed on upper front cover. With printed green wrap-around paper band laid in, printed: The Marquise / By Nowel Coward / Now Being Played At / The Criterion Theatre, London.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 102 pages .
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The Marquise. A Comedy in Three Acts
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Ernest Benn, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.5988 in x 17.7865 in x 12.7903 in. Ex-Library Book with usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding.
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The Vortex. A Play in Three Acts; [together with:] The Marquise. A Comedy in Three Acts.
by COWARD, Noël.
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London: Ernest Benn Limited,, 1925 & 1927. First editions, first impressions. The Vortex premiered on 25 November 1924 at the Everyman Theatre, London, and The Marquise in 1927 at the Criterion Theatre, London. "By the time the sensational The Vortex appeared in 1924, Coward was already a star in the making, and London was ready to be shocked. The Vortex did just that, with its tale of an older woman taking a younger lover, and her son taking cocaine (commentators have since seen the drug as a mask for homosexuality). Coward went along with the convenient myth of his overnight success in the play which quickly transferred from Hampstead to the West End (see his memoir Present Indicative); yet this was as much a construction as the idea that The Vortex was the first English production to deal with drug abuse (the story of Billie Carleton, the chorus girl who died apparently from a cocaine overdose in 1918 and whose fate inspired Coward's play, had sparked off at least three drug-themed productions in…
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