Phonograph Records And Books Auction - ONLINE ONLY
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This remarkable trio of antique books spans the formative decades of telecommunication history, offering a direct window into the dawn of the telephone era. Leading the collection is a scarce 1879 first American edition of The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph by Count Du Moncel, published by Harper & Brothers in New York, featuring an embossed tan cloth cover with early telephone line illustrations. It is accompanied by a 1910 first edition of Herbert N. Casson’s The History of the Telephone, published by A.C. McClurg & Co. in Chicago, which features a neat vintage owner’s signature from 1935 on the flyleaf. Completing the set is the 1928 biography Alexander Graham Bell: The Man who Contracted Space by Catherine Mackenzie, published by Houghton Mifflin Company at the Riverside Press in Cambridge. Together, these volumes represent an exceptional historical cross-section of late 19th and early 20th-century technological literature. The books show age-appropriate wear, including edge bumping, spine fading, light shelf scuffing, and minor toning to the interior pages, but remain tightly bound with clean text blocks and clear illustrations. H 4.25″, W 9″, D 6.25″. See photos for condition.
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