Description

Hardcover, orange cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 299pp., Index. With 240 photographic illutrations. Synopses of fifty popular Chinese plays. First published in 1937, this re-issue printed 1964, first edition thus. A detailed exposition of the methods of acting, until the time of publication, the only English language manual devoted exclusively to the techniques of the Chinese theatre, especially acting. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket lightly edge-worn and chipped along top edge and soiled on rear panel Fine in a near veru good duist-jacket.