Vintage 1940 Reading to Others Argus Tresidder Hardcover Public Speaking Speech

by Others Argus Tresidder

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Vintage 1940 Reading to Others Argus Tresidder Hardcover Public Speaking Speech Light wear to cloth boards with minor edge and corner rubbing. No dust jacket. Pages show age toning typical for a 1940 printing; interiors look clean on the pages reviewed with no writing or highlighting observed. Binding is tight and square. Small stamped/printed number ("62") on the front endpaper. No loose or missing pages noted. Title: Reading to Others Author: Argus Tresidder Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company (Chicago • Atlanta • Dallas • New York) Copyright: 1940 | Printed in the United States of America Format: Hardcover cloth binding; tan/brown boards with blue title and red rules on front cover and spine Subject/Focus: Oral reading, public speaking, voice use, diction, performance, and microphone/stage technique Contents include chapters on Interpreting Meaning and Emotion, How the Voice Works, The Sounds of Speech, Tempo and Pitch Control, Movement and Manners, Improving Reading, Informal/Dramatic/Narrative Reading, Across the Footlights, Before the Microphone, and In Chorus; Appendix on Speech Problems in Voice Improvement; Index begins at p. 513 Features: Illustrations and diagrams (e.g., tongue/phonetics positions), practice exercises for consonants and nasality, prose and verse selections for oral reading Notable markings seen: Small printed/stamped number "62" on front endpaper; printed code on copyright page: 406.1 Notes: No dust jacket present in photos. Pre-ISBN era (no ISB

• Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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