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Scenery for the Theatre
by Burris-Meyer, Harold and Edward C. Cole
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Good
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1949. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Later printing.. Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1949 Later printing Fine/Fair Later 1949 printing in original dust jacket Very clean beige cloth boards with purple lettering on cover and spine No bumping, fading or wear Binding is tight and square, no cracking Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (sophisticated custom made bookplate of Joan E. Vadeboncoeur on verso of front free endpaper) Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings, color chart for scene painting with clean tissue guard 473 pages with index Dust jacket is clean and unclipped but missing 2" piece at base of spine, almost completely separated at rear spine fold, a few additional small chips, nicks and scrapes Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover "Scenery for the Theatre" is the first technical work in English on the processes, methods and techniques of setting the stage which makes any pretensions to completeness.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024446
- Title
- Scenery for the Theatre
- Author
- Burris-Meyer, Harold and Edward C. Cole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later printing.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- PLAYS, THEATER, THEATRE, STAGE SCENERY, HAROLD BURRIS-MEYER, EDWARD C. COLE, Joan E. Vadeboncoeur
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays / Theater;
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