Japanese Theater
by Bowers, Faubion (Introduction By Joshua Logan)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Hermitage House, 1952. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards. Top edge stained brown. Color illustrated endpapers of Kabuki stage. A complete guide for Westerners to the origins, history and contemporary actors, playwrights and musicians in the various forms of Japanese traditional theater, including Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku. Illustrated with color frontiispiece photo and 19 black and white photographs by Isamu Noguchi. Contains the complete translations of three full Kabuki plays. A very tight, clean, unmarked volume in a dust jacket with some faint minor soil and some wrinkles at bottom rear panel but no mark from dampstain. Fine in very good dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07633
- Title
- Japanese Theater
- Author
- Bowers, Faubion (Introduction By Joshua Logan)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hermitage House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- BOWERS, LOGAN, JAPAN, JAPANESE, THEATER, THEATRE, CLASSICAL, ARISTOCRATIC, RELIGIOUS, DANCE, MUSIC, KABUKI, NOH, COSTUME, DESIGN, HISTORY, PUPPET, BUNRAKU, ACTOR, PLAYWRIGHTS, PLAYS, STORY, STORIES, CURRENT, NOGUCHI, ISAMU, DRAMA, PLAY, PLAYWRIGHT,
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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- Octavo
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