Phonograph Records And Books Auction - ONLINE ONLY
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A fantastic scholarly assembly of reference literature tracing the evolution of visual media, early photography, and pre-cinema technology. This lot includes five highly desirable titles for the media historian: a reprint of C. Francis Jenkins’ pioneering 1925 work Vision by Radio – Radio Photographs Radio Photograms (Lindsay Publications); R.B. Litchfield’s Tom Wedgwood The First Photographer (1973 Arno Press reprint); W.K.L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson’s foundational History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope & Kinetophonograph (Ayer Company reprint); the National Film Society’s Introduction to the Photoplay edited by John C. Tibbetts (1977); and Paul Wing’s comprehensive Stereoscopes: The First One Hundred Years (Transition Publishing). These volumes feature cloth, hardcover, and softcover bindings, providing an invaluable deep dive into the dawn of moving images, television, and 3D optics. The collection is in overall very good condition, showing only minor shelf wear, light edge rubbing, and minimal toning to the pages consistent with gentle handling. Stacked: H 4″, W 8.5″, D 11″. See photos for condition.
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