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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.