To Step Aside by Coward, Noel - 1939

E-03: William Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. William Heinemann Ltd. 1939. 318 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (chips present to the the heel and crown of the spine; sunning present to the spine). Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A collection of short stories, which will have a wider sale than usual with short stories on the strength of Noel Coward's name. Good chance for rentals, too, as they will appeal to the Dorothy Parker market and are light enough to be safely recommended for people who don't want the usual type of modern problem story. Most of the stories are set in England or the Continent; there is one with a Long Island week-end as background (a satiric picture of a ""quiet week-end in the country""). Urbane, sophisticated, not as streamlined as one would expect from their author. Many have almost an O. Henry twist to the end. Theatrical people, successful or close to the down-and-outers of the vaudeville troopers; writers; Mayfair socialites -- these are the people around whom the stories are spun. E-03; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages .