Search Results: the vortex a play in three by noel coward

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1925. Unstated Edition. Hardcover. good in appliqued boards, no dust jacket; top half-inch of spine cloth missing, minor rubbing/bumping to board edges else a tight square unmarked copy; no edition stated with "K-Z" on copyright page

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good. 1925. First Printing. Softcover. Coward, Noel. THE VORTEX: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925. 105 pages, contents toned. Yellow printed wrappers show some light discoloration, spine edges chipped, Good condition. London 1st printing of Noel Coward play. .

Harper and Brothers. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name on front free endpage. (drama, drug addicts, manners and customs)

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with paper labels to front and spine. PO inscription, pages toned, covers lightly stained and rubbed, spine ends pushed. Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925. 107 pages in good condition; pages yellowed. Inscription on the ffep, bookplate on the fep. Blue hardcovers, black titles on beige labels on the spine and front cover. Spine darkened and a little chipped, corners bumped. GOOD-. Hardcover. Good-.

London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1925., 1925. First edition. Small 8vo. Original stiff yellow wrappers printed in black (slight soiling). Very good. 106 pages + 1 page of advertisements. No signatures or bookplates. Originally produced November 25, 1924 at the Everyman Theatre, London; also the basis of a silent film version in 1928, directed by Adrian Brunel; starring: Ivor Novello, Willette Kershaw; Frances Dobie; Alan Hollis; Simeon Stuart; Kinsey Peile; Julie Suedo and Dorothy Fane. Series: Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume 19.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925. Cloth. Very Good +. SIGNED BY NOEL COWARD IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1925 correct 1st edition, published unto itself. Solid and VG+ in its light-blue cloth, with clean pasted-on title label at the front panel and somewhat-worn label to the spine. Neat former owner name and address in pencil at the half-title, light, forgivable browning to the acidic paper. 12mo, Vol. XIX in the publisher's "Contemporary British Dramatists" series.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925. First Edition. 106, [1] pp. 1 vols. Orange wrappers. Fine. Each laid into a crimson cloth slipcase with cloth matching chemises. First Edition. 106, [1] pp. 1 vols.

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… Read More