xxiv 295 pages. The jacket, now protected, is chipped at the edges; the front suffers from minor loss to the head; the back from major loss, also to the head; offset to both endpapers.The preliminaries are lightly foxed as is the fore edge. Overall clean, unmarked and solid, though no beauty queen. The book offers no publishing date, 1947 is taken from Trove. Profusely illustrated with sketches featuring sets, puppet designs, costumes, types of puppets, and international pictures. A comprehensive beginner's guide to puppet making and putting on puppet shows.