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Grau, The Theatre of Science, 1914

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Item Details

Description

Heading:
Author: Grau, Robert.
Title: The Theatre of Science: A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry.
Place Published: New York, etc.
Publisher: Broadway Publishing Company
Date Published: 1914
Description:
xxxiv, [2], 378 pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs. (4to) original decorative green cloth, gilt title and spine, decorative endpapers. No. 73 of 3,000 autographed copies.
Signed by the author at the limitation. With the illustrated bookplate and owner's signature (with address) of Monte Katterjohn, an American screenwriter of the era. A fascinating history from the early years of the motion picture industry.

Condition

Wear, soiling and scuffing to binding with rubbing to extremities, dampstaining to bottom of rear board; scattered foxing, some staining to bottom corners of last 10 pages or so; very good.