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New York: The Viking Press, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvi) 78 pp. Black cloth lettered in silver on the spine; red upper edge; black and white frontis portrait of Konstantin S. Stanislavski as Gayev in Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and short tears around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. From the teachings of Stanislavski, the Contents are: Preface by Sir John Gielgud; Foreword by Joshua Logan; Introduction; Art of Theater; The Method: Action, If, Given Circumstances; Imagination; Concentration of Attention on the Stage; Relaxation of the Muscles; Units and Objectives; Feeling of Truth and Belief; Emotional Memory; Communion; Adaptation; Tempo Rhythm; Motive Forces of Psychological Life; The Unbroken Line of a Role; The Actor's Inner State; The Super Objective and the Through Line of Action; The Subconscious in the Inner Creative State; The Actor's Physical Apparatus; and Perspective..