Pitman & Sons, 1980, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First, Illustrated By: Photographic

320 pages, foreword by Sir John Gielgud, glossary, index of entries, index, aknowledgements, general credits, artist credits, and picture credits. Dark red coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with copious coloured and black-and-white photographs, coloured and black-and-white illustrations and black-and-white line drawings. Black coloured boards with gilt writing to the front panel and backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, showing an actor in the role of a puppet, against a black background with white writing to the front panel and backstrip. there is rubbing and chipping of the dust jacket at the head and tail of the spine and the fold over corners, and a trace of foxing to the edges of the text block." " The Entertainers is a unique biographical Encyclopaedia of the live theatre. Here, for the first time, is a beautiful fact filled record of entertainers, chronologically arranged and with hundreds of illustrations many of them in print for the first time." -- from the front fold over panel. Size: Folio ( 12"- 15" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Film, Radio & Television; Biography -- Arts; Theatre & Plays. ISBN: 0858967936. ISBN/EAN: 9780858967939. Inventory No: 0239823.