{"id":8737,"date":"2021-06-03T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:34:38","slug":"featured-noel-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-noel-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: NOEL COWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Noel Coward was recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the personification of wit and sophistication. <\/span>Successful as a composer, lyricist, actor, singer, director, novelist, painter he achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, along with a three-volume autobiography. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama, In Which We Serve, and was knighted in 1969.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatR size-medium wp-image-8738\" title=\"noel-coward-2\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/noel-coward-2-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"noel-coward-2\" width=\"180\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/noel-coward-2-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/noel-coward-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound with dust jacket. <span class=\"first3words\">INSCRIBED BY NOEL COWARD <\/span>on the front free endpage &#8221; For Arnold with love, Noel Coward&#8221;. The author&#8217;s first novel about The Queen and Prince Philip paying a visit to Samoa. Dust jacket painting by Noel Coward. Edge wear to dust jacket and one small chip, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory#<\/strong> 22971<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8739\" title=\"noel-coward-1\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/noel-coward-1-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"noel-coward-1\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/noel-coward-1-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/noel-coward-1.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pomp and Circumstance<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Coward, Noel<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Doubleday<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1960<br \/>\n<strong>Binding: <\/strong>Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition<\/strong>: Good<br \/>\n<strong>Signed:<\/strong> Inscribed by Author<br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> First U. S. Edition<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Coward was recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the personification of wit and sophistication. Successful as a composer, lyricist, actor, singer, director, novelist, painter he achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15114,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions\/15114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}