THE THEATRE OF JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT by Jean-Louis Barrault - 1959

Barrie & Rockliff, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1959. First Edition. 244 pages. Black and white photographic dust jacket over red cloth with a photographic black and white frontis. Moderate water stains and tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible ink marks and dog-eared pages throughout and moderate tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible water stains and notable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.

VG HC w/DJ

Hill and Wang, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. Tan cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. No DJ. Light tanning to cover edges, general shelfwear throughout. Spine cracked but all pages intact. Some staining to front and rear endpapers. Previous owner's name written on blank inside page. Text clean and unmarked. Good copy overall.

NY: Hill and Wang. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Joseph Chiari. First American edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. .

Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Frontispiece Photograph. a very clean copy, price clipped dustjacket, no other damage to describe. Translated from the original French by Joseph Chiari, this is the artist 10 years after his first book Reflections on the Theatre. The first part of the book describes the founding and developing of the company and what he has learned from interpreting in 13 years 10 classic and 21 contemporary dramatist. Four essays follow one aspect of the craft of acting – Fiction Emotion Gestures and "The Tragic Mime." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 244 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Frontispiece Photograph. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 0246196. .

Paperback. Very Good.

London:: Barrie and Rockliff,, 1961. First English language edition. Quarter Cloth. Fine in Very Good+ DJ. Translated from the French by Joseph Chiari. Preface by Armand Salacrou. Spine and head of covers of DJ sunned. DJ torn at tail of spine. Cloth worn at head and tail of spine. DJ flap 'shadow' on endpapers.

London: Barrie & Rockcliff, (1961). First English edition. Octavo, purple boards, pp. xii, 244. A review of his own career, by the great mime and actor, perhaps best known for his role in the classic French film, "Les Enfants du Paradis". Ownership signature of actress D[eirdre Hurst] du Prey in pencil on endpaper. Du Prey was an important student of Russian actor and drama teacher Michael Chekov, and edited some of his books for publication. Considerable darkening to the front free endpapers created by newspaper clippings, otherwise very good in a lightly soiled and worn dust jacket..

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 244pp. Illus. Translated by Joseph Chiari. English translation first published 1961. Gilt titles to spine. This book has a slight smokey aroma. Private library blindstamp to front free end-paper. A rather pleasing copy. (r19). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.