History of the Kodak and Its Continuations the First Folding and Panoramic Cameras Magic Lantern-Kodak-Movie Closeup of the Inventor and the Kodak State
Hammer, Mina Fisher
New York: The house of Little Books, 1940. F xvi + 95 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout, David Henderson Houston frontispiece, Fox Talbot Camera (original), Magic Lantern used in 1860, Muybridge Timing Device, Zoetrope (Periphanoscop), or Wheel of Life, First Folding Camera, Phantoscope, Moving Picture Machine, Rotary Lens Camera, Kodaks, 1885 and 1888, Muybridge Recording Camera, native Americans; with chapter material on the Magic Lantern era, Niepce proces, Gelatine dry plate method, Collodion, Edison's Kinetograph, G.; Albert Smith and Gaumont, color photography, Eastman, Blair, Houston biography, patent drawings for seminal equipment; with illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth volume, gilt cover and spine titles; front endpaper witht he stamp of publisher and "office & review copy"; the author (?) has crossed out the availability addres on the front flap and given her own as the place to buy the book, signing her name in the process; the author feels that Houston got the bad end of the deal with Eastman getting the lion's share of the public's acknowledgement (and money) out of the patents; some edge, tips wear to dustjacket, darkened, top back edge with 1/4" x 1" chip at top; contents in very good condition and with the added bonus of being the publisher's copy with the author's additions on the jacket. Very Good H (Item ID: 13604)
$250.00
