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COWARD, Noel (1899-1973). Private Lives. An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts. London: William Heinemann, 1930. 8vo. [viii], 1-88 pp. Publisher’s full blue cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s unclipped (“5s.”) dust jacket (cloth spine a bit toned, some light rubbing, soiling to cloth binding, endleaves lightly offset, some foxing to edges of text block; jacket toned, foxed, soiled, edgeworn, a few short marginal tears). A fine copy in a good jacket. FIRST EDITION. This comedy of manners is one of Coward’s greatest hits; it originally starred Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier.