163 pages, indexed. Frontispiece plus 30 plates, 6 full page illustrations. First edition. The boards are lightly chipped at the edges, there is an ownership inscription on the front end paper and the pages are lightly tanned, else clean unmarked and solid. "...British director, producer and performer. Jan Bussell with his wife Ann Hogarth founded the Hogarth Puppets in 1932.....is the author of several books on puppetry, including: The Puppet Theatre; The Puppets and I; Puppet's Progress; Through Wooden Eyes; The Art of Television; Twelve Plays; Pegasus Book of Puppets. He edited Plays for Puppets, and was co-author (with Ann Hogarth) of Fanfare for Puppets." (World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry Arts)