Phonograph Records And Books Auction - ONLINE ONLY
Lot 2037:
Description
A fantastic lot of five vintage and reference books chronicling the history, development, and mechanics of early cinema from the silent era through the transition to sound. This expert collector’s assembly includes the highly detailed Edison’s Kinetoscope and Its Films: A History to 1896 by Ray Phillips (Greenwood Press, 1997); a fascinating University Microfilms facsimile edition of John Douglas Gomery’s 1975 Ph.D. dissertation The Coming of Sound to the American Cinema; the rare 1930 UK first edition of The Talkies by John Scotland (Crosby Lockwood and Son, London); a revised 1912 edition of the seminal work Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked by Frederick A. Talbot (J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia); and the classic Archaeology of the Cinema by C.W. Ceram (Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, First American Edition, 1965). The books show varying degrees of age-appropriate wear; the Talbot volume features beautiful pictorial cloth boards with some foxing and a clean December 26, 1913 gift inscription from Hawaii on the flyleaf, The Talkies features early owner signatures and minor shelf wear, and the Ceram volume retains its original dust jacket showing some tears and chipping to the upper edge. Stacked measurements are H 7.5″, W 9.25″, D 7″. See photos for condition.
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