introduction john burrell (2 resultados)

Hardbound. Condición: Very Good. First Modern Library Edition. Description: This is book number 10 in the Modern Library series. The copyright page bears the statement ''First Modern Library Edition, 1950''. This is from Fall 1950. The list of 348 titles on the verso of the dust jacket includes Alcott, Little Women, but does not include Cicero, Basic Works. The dust jacket rear panel is style h5; binding style: 8. Edited, with an introduction by John Angus Burrell. BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with gilt and dark green; the top edge tint is green; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is faded at the spine; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Rockwell Kent endpapers. 12mo (7.25 inches tall). 786.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [light shelfwear, upper corners bumped, no other significant wear; jacket a little edgeworn, small tears at spine ends but only minimal paper loss]. (color plates, B&W photographs) "This splendid collection of photographs covers two years' work of the Old Vic Theatre Company and includes 'King Lear,' 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' 'An Inspector Calls,' 'Uncle Vanya,' 'The Alchemist,' 'Henry IV, Pts. I and II,' 'Oedipus Rex,' 'Richard III,' 'The Critic' [and] 'Peer Gynt.' The colour plates show Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness in their leading roles, and their are eighty other illustrations. The directors of the Old Vic Theatre Company have supervised the production of this book, and John Burrell, himself a director, has written an introduction describing the work of this theatre group during the two seasons." (The original receipt from the publisher is laid in.).