El Dominio del Gesto (The Dominion of Gesture)

Montenegro, Manuel. El Dominio del Gesto (The Dominion of Gesture). Madrid: CIAP (Compañía Ibero-Americana de Publicaciones), 1930. First edition. Sextodemico. 151pp. Illustrated tan wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. The publication is a treatise on the art of silent film acting, by Manuel Montenegro, who himself was a Spanish silent film actor. Various acclaimed silent film actors are used as examples throughout the text, and are depicted in 12 glossy plates of b/w photographic reproductions, including Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Lon Chaney, Adolph Monju, Buster Keaton and Emil Jannings.

Text in Spanish.

Wrappers with some light rubbing to extremities. A few light water stains. Sunning to the spine. Light foxing throughout the text, with images unaffected. Wrappers in very good-, interior in good+. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. g+ to vg-. Softcover.

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