Foreign Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors and Writers. by HERMAN, Lewis and HERMAN, Marguerite Shalett - 1943

Theatre Arts Books. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Name on front endpaper. DJ chipped with some loss at head of spine; stained at foot of DJ spine. ; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 438 pages

Theatre Arts Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1958. Later Printing. Hardcover. Xlib; Ex-Library; 9.50 X 6.30 X 1.60 inches; 415 pages. .

New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1986. Foreword by Garson Kanin. 410pp, diagrams, end-papers: phonetic symbols. With card showing phonetic symbols used in the book loosely inserted. Papered boards in dust-jacket which is lightly silverfished at the spine and sunned in places. Thirty of the principal dialects of the various national groups are given, with character studies, speech peculiarities, and examples of the dialects in easily-read phonetic monologs. Some of the dialects included are Cockney, British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Greek and Yiddish. There are also dialects broguht into prominence by World War II--Australian slang and Australian Pidgin, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Beche de Mar, and Pidgin English. For the teacher there are musical inflection graphs.. Fourteenth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Herman. Hardcover. Good - Cash/Good. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear with the baords peeking out. Pages show reader wear. Previous owner's name and notation inside the front cover and on the FFEP. DJ has blue tinted rubbing, soiling, and some edge tears/chipping. There is some sun fading to the spine and edges of the DJ. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.