MAGIC OF MAKE-UP: BY THE MOST MODERN METHODS FOR STAGE AND SCREEN. by HARALD. MELVILL - 1965-01-01

Salisbury Square, UK, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1958. No Edition Remark. 85 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with fade inscriptions to front and remnants to rear. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

Barrie & Rockliff, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1965. Second Edition. 89 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Rockliff, Salisbury Square. Acceptable. Very good Hardcover with very good dustjacket. some minor rubbings to jacket and some fading of jacket. owners name on front endpiece. Occasional underlining throughout. 85pp.

London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1967. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white drawings & photos, frontispiece, front cover lightly marked jacket (minor edgewear, flap price-clipped, sticker mark front flap). 89 pp. Outlines in detail the ordinary 'straight' (juvenile) make-up, and also 'character' (including middle and old age) and 'nationality' make-ups, and describes both grease-paint and pan-cake methods, showing the comparative advantages of each technique, with special stress on their appeal and usefulness for amateurs. Primarily intended for amateurs and schools, but will be of interest to anyone interested in the art of make-up.

Sydney: Barrie & Rockliff, 1967. 4th imp.. Near Fine. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket x + 89pp., b/w pls., text ills., diags., index, A little faded at spine o/w nice bright, tight copy