The Noel Coward Diaries

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has age toning to closed edges with dustjacket that is not price clipped. 698 pages. When Noel Coward died in 1973, he was as old as the century, and its most renowned dramatist, director and star. He left behind him over fifty plays, twenty five films, hundreds of songs, two autobiographies, a novel, several volumes of short stories and countless poems, sketches, recordings and paintings, not to mention the memories of three generations of playgoers for whom so long he had set the style on and off stage. Fortunately he also left diaries chronicling the last thirty years of his life. These are the years from 1940, when he was starting out on the wartime troop concert tours that were to give him a whole new career as a cabaret entertainer, through the private and professional depression of the early 1950's, when his beloved England seemed to turn almost against him and his work, to the 1960's when he returned in triumph to receive his knighthood. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.25 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.