Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig: The Prose & Poetry of Action

Series: The Book Club of California Publications, Number 189. LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies produced by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin, Texas and bound by Austin BookLab; printed in Perpetua Monotype on machine made paper. 8vo. 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. xvii, 138, [2] pp. Double-page title page printed with blue and black inks, with a two-color vignette, 8 plates printed offset by David Holman, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked. Spine covered in white cloth, blue-green cloth over boards, plain white paper dust-jacket; binding square and tight, jacket with minor toning and shelf wear. Includes the original prospectus in its original mailing envelope. KJ319-189. Fine. This attractively produced study of the love affair and collaboration of two of the leading influences on modern dance and the theater utilizes the Craig collection at the Bibliotheque Nationale and material in the Duncan family archives. The Duncan and Craig families have graciously permitted quotations from Craig's letters to Isadora, long thought to be lost, published here for the first time. Harlan. REFERENCE: Harlan, The Two Hundredth Book, No. 189.