DIRECTING THE PLAY A Source Book of Stagecraft by Cole, Toby and Helen Krich Chinoy, (Eds. ) - 1953

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc , 1953. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Dust Jacket has tiny brown speckles on its spine and rear panel. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No printing or edition statement. Illustrated with drawings and photos. Edited with an illustrated history of directing by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. Contributions by "Andre Antoine, David Belasco, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Jacques Copeau, Arthur Hopkins, Louis Jouvet, Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Max Reinhardt... Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan... and others." Original red/orange cloth. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 341pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1953 341 pp.with B&W drawings in text and 8 B&W plates. Essays on directing by George 11, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Andre Antoine, Otto Brahm, David Balasco, Adolfe Appia, Gordan Craig, Jaques Copeau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene Vakhtangov, Arthur Hopkins, Louis Jouvet, B.E. Zahhava, Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, red cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.