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2 volumes. lxx, [2], 400; [4], 401-868 pp. Illustrated from photographic frontispieces, and over 100 photographs, graphs, tables, etc. (8vo), bound in original half pigskin and Japanese paper covered boards. No. 22 of 327 copies.

Signed by the author at the limitation, and signed by Thomas Edison on a special page at front, as issued. Additionally inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson, who was the head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s. Deluxe edition of this extensive work detailing the history of Motion Pictures, and movie projection equipment. Much of the work is devoted to Edison's kinetograph camera, and the kinetoscope, the development of the motion picture camera, and television, as well as the rotating studio he designed for movie production in West Orange, NJ.

The author's inscription reads: "To my friend Julian Johnson in appreciation of his encouragements when this labor began and through all the years between - Terry Ramsaye, New York October 2, 1926."