The Mask Volume Twelve bis Number One January 1927

[6], 46, [6] p., frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates: line drawings; 22 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Pages are unopened. Frontispiece is a photograph of Edward Gordon Craig in the garden of his villa at Genova, Italy. Edward Gordon Craig, son of actress Ellen Terry, was a theater director, critic, and theater designer. He published the first international theater periodical, The Mask, from 1908 to 1929. In addition to obvious anonymous and pseudonymous contributions by Craig, contents include: Essentials by J.S.; Poetry in Drama by William Poel; Venezia and its Foolish Collaboration of Poet, Musician, Architect, and Scenographer by A.C.; Ben Jonson: Inigo Jones: Inventors by Paul McPharlin; Arthur Symons by the producer of Acis and Galatea; Enthusiasm in Three Theatres by J.B.; Opera Register 1712-1734 (concluded) by Francis Colman; Ibsen's "Pretenders" at Copenhagen by Conrad Tower; Blushing in the Limelight by Henry Phips; On the Memoirs of Actresses by J.S.; A Surprise for M. Diaghileff: Discovery After Fourteen Years by J.B. A scarce issue of this important theater publication. In Good+ Condition: front wrapper detached but present; some paper over spine is lacking; fore-edges and lower edges of wrappers chipped; wrappers are lightly soiled; pages and plates are clean and tight. …