Hardback. 693pp. First edition of this new translation by Jean Benedetti. Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavski s huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English. He has remained faithful to the author s original intentions, putting the two books previously known as An Actor Prepares and Building A Character back together into one volume, and in a colloquial and readable style for today’s actors. various appendices including a glossary of key terms. Black cloth with silver titles to spine is very clean and neat. Stain to inside dust wrapper is not visible externally nor does it affect the book cloth. Dust wrapper is a little rubbed with a hint of creasing to spine ends and vertical creasing to both inner dust wrapper flaps.