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New York: Benjamin Blom. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Originally published in 1939. .

London: The Studio Ltd. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardback. Plain red boards (no d/jkt); a trifle marked. B/w illustrations. Interesting whistle-stop tour of late 1930s European and US theatre production, revealing some smashing modernist designs. B/w illustrations. ; 4to (8" x 12"); 128 pages .

London & New York: The Studio/Studio Publications, n.d.. Cloth. Very good. Water colour by Australian illustrator Maivs Dowling tipped in at the front gutter. Hardcover (29.5 x 20.5cm), 128pp, richly illustrated with b&w photographs; red cloth covered boards with lettering in blue on the spine. Lacks dustwrapper, the head and tail of the spine are a little frayed and the corners a tad abraded but still sharp; small stain to upper corner of top board, the letters "O" and "N" of the work ACTION are sunned. Previous owner signature on front past-down, advertisment for Haskell's Ballet to Poland (published 1940) tipped in at the front and a page from "Building" (May 25, 1937) and featuring Elizabeth Bay House "as it was a few years ago" is tipped into the back. A very curious find indeed. The book itself is a survey of 1930s stage design in The US, Great Britain, Europe and the Near East.The curiosity is the little watercolour of a Poirot sliding down a wall with mittened hands upraised, signed by… Read More