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Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0870700383ISBN 13: 9780870700385
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
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Published by The Century Company, New York, 1894
Seller: Carlson Turner Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. General age related wear to wraps with small areas of paper loss to spine ends. Binding is solid. A nice copy of this rare Edison/Twain Edition. ; 8vo.
Published by Privately Printed, 1939
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Reprint of an article originally appearing in the Century Magazine in 1894. Inscribed by Charles G. Clarke, who wrote the introduction. #11/250cc. Covers edgeworn.
Published by Arno Press & The New York Times, New York, 1970
ISBN 10: 0405016115ISBN 13: 9780405016110
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. The Literature of Cinema series. 55 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Purple cloth. Spine ends a bit bumped. Reprint edition, from a copy in The Museum of Modern Art Library.
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Published by The Century Company, NY, 1894
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: VG. 10pp, printed in double columns, illustrated with photographs including a facsimile hand-written note from Edison, a portrait of Edison among his instruments, and kinetoscopic views including The Fencer, Hear Me Norma, and The Barber Shop, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume 48, No. 2, June, 1894. An important piece of theatrical and invention science as it was Edison's machine that was the precursor to the modern movie projector. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Scarce.
Published by o.O./ Arno Press Inc, 1970
Seller: Eugen Küpper, Muenster, Germany
Reprint Edition. Gr. 8°. 55 S. Olwd. mit zahlr. Abb. Broschur minimal berieben u. sehr leicht lichtrandig; Inneres in ausgezeichnetem Zustand. Noch sehr gutes Exemplar!.
Published by T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1894
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1894. Numerous photo-engravings throughout. Prior owner inscription to front endpaper. Front hinge partially cracked, faint stain to front cover and light scuffs to rear cover. Overall, a Very Good hardcover in gilt-stamped decorative green cloth with beveled edges. Gilt top edge, no dustjacket (as issued). NOT an ex-library copy. No ink marks or highlighting to text. SHIPS IN A BOX. Book.
Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1894
Seller: Mark Westwood Books PBFA, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large 8vo. pp: xvi, 362. Frontispiece and plates. Very good tight copy in original blue cloth, slight rubbing to ends of spine.
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, 1894, 1894
Seller: The Way We Were Bookshop, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. VG/None. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 362 pp, hardbound, light wear to spine crown, minor rubbing to rear board, light shelfwear, otherwise super clean, gilt titling bright and binding strong, NOT EXLIB.
Published by Privately Printed at the Pueblo Press [for editor-authors], Los Angeles, 1939
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Hardcover. 18p., b&w illustrations and facsimiles, rear pocket with zoetrope wheel; text printed on calendared paperstock with edges left untrimmed, hardbound issue, 10.5x8 inches; has a lovely coarse-linen spine over matte-black boards with printed face label. Copy no.145 of 250 only. Cloth-backing is mildly toned from handling; preliminary leaves and terminal leaf bear a small faint damp-stain while leaves between are free of it; pastedown has a private bookplate (a very nice one), the ffep and next blank both are inscribed by Charles Clarke to art director Leland Fuller: a rather formal presentation on ffep, and a warm personal one on the blank. A very good copy. Inscribee Fuller (1899-1962) was Hollywood art director, worked on numerous films from 1943 til his death including Viva Zapata!, was oscar-nominated for that and five others.
Published by Pueblo Press, Los Angeles, 1939
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st edition. 4to, 18 pp., Introduction by Charles G. Clarke; limited to 250 numbered copies, this being no. 94, With a facsimile "Zoetrope or Magic Panorama" laid into pocket at rear including directions for use Fine copy in cloth-backed folder.
Published by Privately Printed at the Pueblo Press, Los Angeles, 1939
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
With an Introduction by Charles G. Clarke. 18 pp. Illustrated. 4tp. publisher s buckram-backed boards with printed paper label, in glassine wrapper. First edition; No. 202 of 250 copies. A light dampstain affects the bottom margin of some leaves, the front board, and the glassine; otherwise a nice copy. With a facsimile "Zoetrope or Magic Panorama" laid into pocket at rear, with directions for use.
Published by Pueblo Press, Los Angeles, 1939
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Introduction by Charles G. Clarke. Quarto. 18pp. Illustrated. Printed quarter linen and papercovered boards with printed label. With a facsimile "Zoetrope or Magic Panorama" disc laid into pocket at rear. Faint but fairly pervasive stain on front board, else very good. Copy 141 of 250 numbered copies. This copy Inscribed by cinematographer Charles G. Clarke to noted film producer Otto Lang: "To my good friend Otto Lang - with happy recollections of our long years of working together. Rush![?] Cordially Chas. G. Clarke.".
Published by New York Albert Bunn 1895, 1895
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. The first book on the motion picture. While about 10 copies exist in libraries across the world, only three copies are believed to still be in private hands and this is the only signed one. An important presentation copy to Eugene Augustine Lauste. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: ÒÕA mon amiÕ, E. Lauste, W.K.L. DicksonÓ. The book was presented to his friend and colleague French inventor Eugene Augustin Lauste (1857 - 1935) who was a major figure in the technological advance of the motion picture. A possessor of 53 patents in France by the time he was 23, he emigrated to America in 1886 and became the assistant to William Kennedy Laurie Dickson at Thomas Edison's laboratories. Lauste contributed with Dickson to the creation of the Kinetoscope the predecessor to the development of the leading predecessor to the motion picture projector, an invention for which Edison would later claim credit. Lauste resigned from Edison in 1892, and went on to make further contributions ending his career at Bell Laboratories. The list of accomplishments of Dickson is extensive including many firsts in film becoming the first American film director with ÔMonkeyshinesÕ in 1890. Bound in publisherÕs pictorial wrappers depicting images from early films. 53 pages. The book is extensively illustrated and has a portrait of Thomas Edison opposite a page of endorsement by Edison of the book. A small bit of strengthening and work by an expert conservationist, else near fine clean copy. Enclosed in a custom morocco leather and cloth clamshell box.
Published by Albert Bunn, New York, 1895
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 53pp. Publisher's coated pictorial wrappers printed in blue-green ink. Portrait of Edison and numerous photographic plates and illustrations throughout. A few spots and creases and with some professional restoration at the spine and upper foredge of the front wrappers, else near fine. Housed in custom red quarter morocco clamshell case. A remarkable copy of the first book on the motion picture. This copy belonged to A.R. Allen of Famous Productions Inc. in Universal City, California, and is accompanied by a typed letter signed to Allen from Iris Barry, curator of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, dated Dec. 4, 1939, who states: ".I do not think there can be much doubt that the Dickson 'History of the Kinetoscope' is the first book on the motion picture . ." This book details the invention and early experimentation of the kinetoscope with numerous images and closes with this bold but accurate prediction: "What is the future of the kinetograph? Ask rather, from what conceivable phase of the future it can be debarred. In the promotion of business interests, in the advancement of science, in the relation of unguessed worlds, in its educational and re-creative powers, and in its ability to immortalize our fleeting but beloved associations, the kinetograph stands foremost among the creations of modern inventive genius" (p. 52). William Kennedy Dickson's invention, the Kinetoscope, was simple: a strip of several images was passed in front of an illuminated lens and behind a spinning wheel. In fact, Edison saw very little value in the contraption, but thought that it might be served to enhance his phonograph. On January 7, 1894, Dickson received a patent for motion picture film. Shortly afterwards, after a great deal of debate with Edison and West Orange film colleague Jonathan Campbell, Dickson switched from the 19mm width, single sprocket film he was using, to the more stable 35mm double-sided sprocket film. Edison didn't see the need or benefit for redesigning the equipment to accept the larger negative, but Dickson and Campbell believed it was essential if the technology was to advance. Today's standard is still 35mm double-sided sprocket film. Dickinson's importance to early film-making cannot be overstated. He is credited with producing the first film shot in the United States (*Monkeyshines*, 1890), the first public demonstrations in the United States (*Dickson's Greeting*, 1891), the earliest known film containing actors (*The Blacksmith Scene*, 1893), and by default the first film director and studio head after the creation, by Edison in 1893, of the world's first film studio, Black Mariah (a nickname coined by Dickson). While numerous copies of a 1970 facsimile of the first edition can be found at institutions, the true first edition is exceedingly difficult to find with *OCLC* locating about 10 copies. A rare surviving copy of this landmark first book on motion picture by a true pioneer, too long overshadowed by more famous film "innovators" such as Edison.