128 pages, illustrated. The price clipped jacket is chipped at the edges and its spine strip lightly chipped. The body of the book is in excellent condition, clean, unmarked and solid. "British puppeteer, writer and teacher, known as Pantopuck the Puppetman or Panto to his friends. Alexis Robert Philpott was involved in various British puppetry organizations and was Vice-Chair of British UNIMA, also co-founder and council member of the Educational Puppetry Association (EPA) from 1943 to 1969. He edited Puppet Post, the journal of the EPA. He wrote and edited a number of books about puppetry, including The Puppet Book (London, Faber, 1965), Eight Plays for Hand Puppets (London, Garnet Miller, 1968), Let's Look at Puppets (London, Frederick Muller, 1966) and Modern Puppetry (London, Michael Joseph, 1966), and published several plays for puppets, including: The Magic Tower and Other Plays and Mumbo Jumbo and Other Plays (both published by London, Macmillan, 1954). (World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Art)