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William Heinemann, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1944. First Edition. 119 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth, 155 pp. Top corners lightly bumped, lightly rubbed near ends of spine, owner's name and date (Dec 1944) in ink recto ffep, notes and underlining in pencil. Diary of Noel Coward's trip to Gibraltar and the middle east to entertain troops in 1943. Encounters with well-known allies (Eisenhower, Macmillan, etc.), troops, hosptial patients, and German submarines. Shipping weight 1 lb.. BCE. . VG/No dj. 18 X 13 cm.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 155 pages .

The Right Book Club, 1945. Pages - 119. Jacket - Acceptable/Hardcover. 1. Used - Very Good. Spine, binding and cover all fine; slightly faded blue boards with gilt titles on spine. Contents very clean and no inscription. Dustcover has damage to top of spine, on the front cover and edges.

Generic, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Former owner's name, otherwise unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

William HeinemannLtd London 1944. ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc) 119pp, VG+(v sl bruised corners, v sl water stain to front board) d/w VG(v sl wear/tears at extremities, v sl water stained, sl sunned)

Doubleday, Doran, 1944. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. Smaller book. DJ has very tiny tear and slight wear to top front tip, tiny tear at top back tip, 1/8" surface scratch near bottom front, very slight wear at spine top left edge, very tiny tear and nick with light wear at spine bottom edge, 1/4" tear at top back edge, very tiny tear at bottom. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

London: Heinemann. Very Good. 1944. Reprint. Hard Cover. 119pp; ; 190 x 125mm .

London: Heinemann, 1944. 1st edition. Nice Copy. small octavo. dust jacket 119pp., A diary of his entertainment tour undertaken in North Africa & the Middle-East in 1943. Nice copy in a slightly dulled dust jacket

London: William Heinemann, 1944.. 12mo. Navy Blue Cloth, 119 pp., Very Good with some wrinkling to cloth on cover. Related newspaper clipping present. Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell, most signed presentation copies, inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson, was Gerald Durrell’s right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park).

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. , Inc.. Very Good. 1944. Hardcover. 155pp., a Very Good copy in a very good dj with a small tear in rear (1/2" no loss). .

William Heinemann, London, 1944. First edition.. Hardback.. Very Good (-) in Very Good (-) Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. Not price-clipped. Owner's name to FFEP. Small chip to head of DJ spine and some darkening/ marks more generally.

London: The Right Book Club , 1944. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Wm. Heinemann. 1944 1st ed. 119pp. navy cloth 12mo: near Fine in a near Fine dj in poly cover. The diary of multi-talented Noel Coward's (1899-1973) entertainment tour for the armed forces in North Africa and the Middle East from July to October 1943.

London : William Heinemann, 1944. Hardback edition. Hardcover. Not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 119 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 ; Personal narratives, British. World War, 1939-1945 ; Personal narratives, English. World War, 1939-1945 Middle East.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 155pp. Near fine/very good. Small inoffensive stain on rear endpaper; jacket lightly edgeworn, with single edge chip. A tight and attractive first edition wartime travelogue by the British actor, singer, playwright and all-around wit as he traveled to entertain allied troops during World War Two and (to cite front jacket panel) "reports his impressions of the war in the Mediterranean." Very lovely and very uncommon in such a spiffy jacket, whose front panel graphics show a stylized aerial view of the Mediterranean and Sicily, Gibraltar, Malta and Beirut.

Doubleday Doran & Co., 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Scarce in dj this fine. In a Mylar cover. A superb copy.

Doubleday,Doran & CO, 1944. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in a very good jacket.$2.00 on flap.Edge wear to spine fold of jacket.Lightly chipped at Crown.Stated First Edition.Signed by Author "My Best wishes Noel Coward."Great Copy..

London: William Heinemann Ltd,, 1944. First edition, first impression, a very scarce presentation copy inscribed by the author, "To Guy, as usual, Noel". It is possible the recipient was Guy Burgess who were both involved in intelligence work during the Second World War. Coward's Middle East Diary relating part of his world entertainment and propaganda tour, during which he reported to William Stephenson of the British Security Co-ordination, part of MI6. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. A fine fresh copy.

London: William Heinemann Ltd,, 1944. Inscribed to his friend First edition, first impression, a very scarce presentation copy inscribed by the author to Coward's friend the actress Joyce Carey on the title page: "For Joyce from !!!". Coward's Middle East Diary relates his late 1943 tour across North Africa, the Levant and Iraq, visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals and performing a series of morale boosting concerts. Joyce Carey, OBE (1898-1993) is best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noel Coward. In the midst of her stage career, which lasted 1916 to 1987, she rejoined Coward in 1942 to tour in his three newest plays, This Happy Breed, as Sylvia, Blithe Spirit, as Ruth, and Present Laughter, as Liz (a character based partly on Carey herself). She later played all three roles in London. After the war she played in Coward's new plays Quadrille and Nude with Violin (alongside Gielgud in London and Coward himself in New York). Her New York Times obituary noted that she… Read More