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An Actor Prepares
by Stanislavski, Constantin; Translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood; Introduction by John Gielgud
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0878300015
- ISBN 13
- 9780878300013
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1978. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 295 pages. Hardcover with an grey dust jacket. the jacket is worn but complete and has a glass ring on the front panel. Top edge of the text block is dust-stained and foxed. Light brown stain on the fore edge of the text block near the bottom corner. The gutters of the inner hinges are browned. A sound copy with clean text. Stated Thirty-First Printing. Book Club Edition.
Synopsis
An Actor Prepares was first published in 1936 and is the first volume of the translations of Constantin Stanislavski's books on acting, which were published as a trilogy in English, though originally meant to be published as two books in Russia. "An Actor Prepares" was initially meant to be the first half of a volume on the inner preparation of an actor, while the second half (later published in English as "Building a Character") was meant to cover the outside work on the actor.
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- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 049382
- Title
- An Actor Prepares
- Author
- Stanislavski, Constantin; Translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood; Introduction by John Gielgud
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0878300015
- ISBN 13
- 9780878300013
- Publisher
- Theatre Arts Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- 1978; Constanin Stanislavski; JOhn Gielgud; Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood; Acting; Plays; Play; Theater; Theatre; Stage; Literature.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theater & Film;
- X weight
- 1.5 lb
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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