Acting My Way (1964, signed first edition)

Signed by Denys Blakelock to Kaye Webb, with handwritten letter

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Printing Details

First edition. Paperback. 18.5 × 12.5cm, 82pp.

This copy signed by Denys Blakelock to Kaye [Webb], the British publisher & editor, to the inside front cover, and with a handwritten letter from Denys to Kaye loosely inserted. The letter reads "January 30, 1964. My Dear kaye, I hope you enjoyed your birthday party as much as I did. Thank you so much. Here is one of the first copies of my book which arrived today, it's not for Australia or America but for you. I hope, if you've time to read it, you'll like it & think the finished article looks pure, well. I've written to Lionel (?) and Eric Hiscock as you kindly said I ought. My love to you, yours ever, Denys".

From the back cover: "Denys Blakelock has long been known as a distinguished actor and as a pioneer in radio and television. It is, however, only in the last decade that his reputation has grown as a writer and poet, as an instructor in the drama teaching world, and as an authority on diction and Standard English.

His first book, Advice To A Player, Letters to a Young Actor, could be described as a standard work. It is presented as a parting gift to students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where the author taught diction and audition technique from 1947–1962.

These further letters of advice are of a maturer nature. They cover a wider field and should be of assistance to actors of all ages, to teachers and to anyone interested in Speech and in the Art of Acting."

Condition

This copy is in good plus condition. There is light wear to the covers and tanning to the page edges but otherwise a solid copy.