240pp. Hardback in very good condition with unclipped dust jacket.    Black boards with silver titles.    Clean and tightly bound with no inscriptions or annotations.  Dust jacket shows slight signs of shelf wear and is slightly sunned at top and bottom.   Text pages also show very slight sunning. This book is the first to examine in depth the work of a contemporary British stage designer.  It follows the career of Jocelyn Herbert from her student days at the London Theatre Studio in 1936 to her productions at the Royal National Theatre in 1992.   In 1956 she joined the Royal Court where she developed her long working relationships with directors George Devine, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson and John Dexter.   Thanks to the Court\'s championship of new playwrights, she designed the first performances of plays by John Arden, Arnold Wesker, John Osborne and David Storey and in the 1950s began a close associations with Samuel Beckett.   (Taken from inside the dust jacket)