History of the Kinetograph, Kinetocscope and Kinetophonograph
Published by New York Albert Bunn 1895
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA
AbeBooks seller since June 9, 1997
Condition: Used
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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: “’A mon ami’, E. Lauste, W.K.L. Dickson”. 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 ‘Monkeyshines’ in 1890. Bound in publisher’s 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.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- History of the Kinetograph, Kinetocscope and Kinetophonograph
- Author
- DICKSON, W.K.L. & ANTONIA DICKSON
- Publisher
- New York Albert Bunn 1895
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA
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