PLAY PARADE by Noel Coward Doubleday, Doran, First Edition, 1933 Condition: Very Good British writer/director/composer/actor Coward personally chose these seven plays as being his most representative works. (See scan for titles.) He also wrote an original Introduction , telling why he chose each play for inclusion in the book. 578 pages; hardback First Edition. Darkening on spine, modest cover staining, slightly bent corners, two private library labels on front end papers. A solid, heavy book with intact hinges and no markings noted. 1973 newspaper obituary of Coward laid in.