The Vortex

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… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn, 1925. First UK Edition, preceding all others. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Coward's first commercial success, a three-act play about a nymphomaniac and her drug-abusing son. The play opened on Broadway in September, 1925, and ran for 157 performances. Basis for the 1928 Adrian Brunel film starring Ivor Novello. Very Good… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn Ltd. First printing of this play in the Contemporary British Dramatists series published one year after the play was first performed. Bookplate to the inside front cover, dated ownership on the front free endpaper (1925), neat annotation to the Dramatis Personae to indicate the two main actors at the Royalty Theatre 1924-25 ( Noel Coward and Lillian… Read more about this item

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 .

Harper, 1925. Book. Very Good. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST NO DJ. SUNNED LABEL c-z on copyright.

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. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First American Edition. Back hinge cracked; very good plus in only a good, somewhat worn, split, and chipped dust jacket.

Paperback. Very Good.

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, 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… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Bros, 1925. 193p. rear endpaper missing, cloth, very nice copy, VG