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Directing the Play: A Source Book of Stagecraft
by SHAW, George Bernard, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and others
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 341pp. Edited and with an illustrated history of directing by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. Illustrated with black and white plates. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Binding slightly cocked and lightly sunned at the spine and edges, tiny hole on upper shoulder, and a small bit of material bound in under the rear pastedown, very good in a lightly toned and edgeworn, very good or better dustwrapper.
Contributors include George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Andre Antoine, Otto Brahm, David Belasco, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, Jacques Copeau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene Vakhtangov, Arthur Hopkins, Louis Jouvet, B.E. Zakhava, Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman.
Contributors include George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Andre Antoine, Otto Brahm, David Belasco, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, Jacques Copeau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene Vakhtangov, Arthur Hopkins, Louis Jouvet, B.E. Zakhava, Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 464535
- Title
- Directing the Play: A Source Book of Stagecraft
- Author
- SHAW, George Bernard, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and others
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Drama, Anthology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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