A galaxy of stars
COWARD, Noel. The Noel Coward Diaries. Edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley. Boston: Little Brown. 1982.
8vo. Original cream cloth bound with a lilac spine and a pictorial dust wrapper; pp. [6], 698; a fine copy preserved in a red morocco backed marbled paper covered box with raised bands; authorial inscription to title-page "For Bryan Star Quality. Bath November 21st 1982"; signatures to pastedown and front free endpaper (see below).
First US edition, inscribed on the title-page by the author.
This unique copy is additionally signed on the front endpapers by an array of Forbes's friends including Margaret Courtenay, Simon Jenkins, Lucy Fleming, Moira Lister, Madge Ryan, Brett Fancy, Elspeth March, Dinah Sheridan, Sally Ann Harris, Richard O'Callaghan, Elizabeth Quinn, Emlyn Williams, Derek Waring, David Bentley, Carl Davis, and others.
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