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.- Obra escrita en inglés. London. 1928. Television Press, Ltd. 8º. XX pgs - 180 pgs - 1 h. Con fotografías e ilustraciones b/n. Tela editorial. Manchas en plano anterior y lomera. Buen estado. . . Televisión Radiodifusión / Idiomas / Inglés

Television Press, London. 1928. 8vo, 180pp. A very good hardback copy. Light foxing to fore edges. Ex-library copy with minimal library cancelled stamps to some blank pages.. With numerous photographic illustrations of the early mechanics of television.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. Cloth. Ex library - Fair. 62 p. 19 cm. 12 b&w illustrations. Red cloth hardcover. From our As Is shelf. Ex library with numbered lower spine, card and ink stamps on endpapers, stamps on title page and throughout. Label residue on front endpapers, title, and bottom edge of Baird's portrait. Ink notations rear of title. Occasional tears and much soiling or thumbing throughout. All pages legible and present. Topics: what television is; the photo electric cell; the present state of the art; the Baird "Televisor" and true television demonstrated at last; 2 T.V. - the world's first television broadcasting station; etc.

Chapman & Hall, 1932. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tear in cover at base of spine. Cover a litle worn and soiled, Hinges have cloth tape reinforcement.

London: Television Press, Ltd., 1928. 12mo. xx, 180 pp., plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates, text illustrations, diagrams. Blue cloth, black lettering & ruling on covers (minor shelfwear, minor soiling, w/o ffep), still G copy. Second edition, revised and expanded of the first book in English on television. Dinsdale described the early television experimenters including Szczepanik, Rosing, Kihaly, but focuses on the efforts of John Baird who transmitted the first pictures in 1926 a recognizable human face. This expanded work includes a great deal more technical information, colour television, stereoscopic television, and a substantial section on the researches by AT&T.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy, spine sunned, light soiling on boards.. xiii, 241 pp. Illus. with 38 b/w plates and 130 in-text drawings. 8vo. Dinsdale, renowned British television engineer, was the author of the earliest book on television: "Television. Seeing by Wireless" (1926) and the first editor of 'Television' magazine. This, his second book, was an important work surveying the technical developments of contemporary television in the US and western Europe.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION. Handsomely cased in a pristine custom clamshell case, gilt-lettered at the spine and on the front board. Near fine. In 1922, Alfred Dinsdale (1896-1974) began a serious study of "the problems of transmitting and receiving visual signals, namely, television. His resources were small and he lacked any formal research training; he also did not have access to workshop or laboratory facilities and his financial position was precarious. Regardless, Dinsdale rented an attic and began to assemble apparatus using what were, on the face of it, most unpromising materials. "Dinsdale describes the technical problems faced by early experimenters (Jan Van Szczepanik, Boris Rosing, Denoys Von Mihaly and others), but focuses primarily on the work of the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the first person to produce televised pictures of objects in motion. In February 1924… Read More

Sir Isaac Pitman. London: Sir Isaac Pitman (1926). 8vo., original beige card covers, with the original dust jacket; pp. 62; with 12 plates including that of John Logie Baird. A good copy. The upper card cover has a darker mark to the bottom of the card and a crease to the bottom right hand corner. The binding is exposed between p32 and 33 although holding firm. The fragile original wrapper has two tears to the front panel at the top and bottom and there is a split to the fore edge. There is general wear to the edges and a chip to the bottom edge of the back panel. The jacket in general is worn.  The first book on television. This book was written by Dinsdale to explain, mainly the work of John Logie Baird to the reader in plain language about how television works. There is a plate of the first picture taken by Television on p38.   . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1926.

London: Pitman, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine. No jacket. Very good copy in original stiff boards of this first book about television. The binding is robust though there is a partial crack between pp.32 and 33. The text is fresh and unmarked. There is browning to the edges pf the pale boards and to the spine, but almost no wear inc. to corners and edges. Just 1mm of paper loss/wear to foot of spine. Altogether a strikingly good copy of this very rare booklet.

London: The Television Press. 12 bound up issues of the 'Official Organ of the Television Society' from March 1929 to Feb 1930 (Vol 2). 628 pages with numerous adverts, photos & diagrams in vg condition. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1929.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Publisher's red hardback in very good condition: square with firm joints, no splits, just mildly rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket, which is chipped and darkened, and now preserved after being remounted on stiff white card paper. Contents essentially clean and tight, no pen-marks. And not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 8vo (185mm x 125mm); pages: 62, with a frontispiece plate of Baird and eleven additional illustrative plates. Note: this work is nearly always seen in stiff card covers whereas this first edition is bound in a hardcover. As such it is very rare, probably one of a very small number of specially produced de-luxe first editions. Thus a very good copy of a fragile work offered for sale a reasonable price.

London: Television Press Ltd, 1928-29. Quarto. Original publishers cloth binding. Marbled endpapers. Titled on the front board and the spine. Original coloured, illustrated index leaf. Complete with all the text leaves. Paper a bit browned but as expected with paper from this period. Binding a bit worn but overall an attractive copy of a very scarce item. The first Journal in the world devoted to Television and comprising the first 12 issues from Vol. 1 No. 1 ( March 1928) to Vol 1 No. 12 (February 1929) Each issue consists of 50+ pages. Many pages of contemporary advertising in each issue. A fantastic item edited by one of the great's of early Television. 1928

Television Press, Ltd., London, March 1928 - February 1929. Hardcover. Fair. 4to, hardcover. 12 issues of the original journal bound in black library-style cloth, with original front & rear covers bound in. Fair to Good condition. Pgs browned/age-toned, pale 1/2-inch-wide water stain across top margin of pgs, contents otherwise unmarked, binding tight but for one loose pg, laid in. Moisture-spotting around cover edges w/ 1-inch split to upper & lower spine cloth. Each issue appx. 40 pgs. Incl's numerous illustrations, schematics, ads.

Television Press, Ltd., London, March 1929 - February 1930. Hardcover. Fair. 4to, hardcover. 12 issues of the original journal bound in black library-style cloth, with original front & rear covers bound in. Fair to Good condition. Pgs browned/age-toned but clean, unmarked, binding tight; scattered foxing around cover edges & few pea-sized spots on text-block edge, not affecting interior; 1-inch split to lower spine cloth. Continuously paginated: 628 total pp. Incl's numerous illustrations, schematics, ads.

Television Press, Ltd., London, March 1931 - December 1931. Hardcover. Good. 4to, hardcover. 10 issues of the original journal, bound in black library-style cloth, with original front & rear covers bound in, plus additional 63 pp. "AC Radio Manual", 2nd edition, 1930, bound in to rear. Good condition. Pgs moderately browned/age-toned but clean, unmarked, binding tight; slightest foxing around board edges & upper spine, not affecting interior at all. Continuously paginated: 408 total pp. + 63 pp. Incl's numerous illustrations, schematics, ads.

Television Press, Ltd., London, March 1930 - February 1931. Hardcover. Good. 4to, hardcover. 12 issues of the original journal bound in black library-style cloth, with original front & rear covers bound in. Good condition. Pgs moderately browned/age-toned but clean, unmarked, binding tight; slightest foxing around board edges & upper spine, not affecting interior at all. Continuously paginated: 408 total pp. Incl's numerous illustrations, schematics, ads.

London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1926. First edition of the first book on television, a key work on the history of technology. Octavo, original stiff boards, frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear, small tape repair on the front panel. Housed in a custom slipcase. The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline in 1924, and transmitted the first pictures between two televisions in April 1925.

London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1926. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION.The FIRST edition of the VERY FIRST book written on television (This publication is considered to be the first English language book in the world written exclusively on the subject of television.) ,published in 1926 as a sixty-two page paperback with card covers. Gives brief history of TV experimentation to that date, and ends with a detailed explanation of the Baird mechanical system. It features TWELVE illustrations from photographic prints and interestingly one of them is " The first photograph ever taken by television in the world's history .This is an untouched print of a photograph of the image which appeared on the screen of the first Televisor." Further details available on request . While there is a very very minor crease to the cover, this is a remarkably bright copy of a VERY,VERY, SCARCE and influential twentieth-century book. YOU MAY FIND A CHEAP… Read More

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1926. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A scarce, first edition copy of this important work on television. This was the first book in English on television, and Dinsdale discusses the timeline and technical challenges of the technological marvel. With the very scarce original unclipped dustwrapper. Written by Alfred Dinsdale, who began a study of 'the problems of transmitting and receiving visual signals, namely television' in 1922. To this work, Dinsdale draws mostly on the work of John Logie Baird, the first scientist in the world to demonstrate television. In addition he discusses technical problems faced by early experimenters such as Jan van Szczepanik, Boris Rosing and Denoys Von Mihaly. Baird produced the first television image in outline in 1924 and transmitted the first pictures between two televisions in 1925. An exceptional copy of this work.Illustrated, with a frontispiece of Baird and eleven additional plates. Collated,… Read More

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing of the first book in English on television. Heavy stock wraps printed in black, Very Good in Very Good original dust jacket. Light toning and light foxing to spine and verso of front cover. Front hinge a little over opened with stitching at first signature lightly slackened. Small marginal tear at the bottom of three leaves. The dust jacket is lightly edge worn, rubbed and lightly soiled; short closed tear at top of rear spine joint; the spine panel is darkened and chipped along the folds, with the title hand-written in faded ink. Erased pencil price at top of front dust jacket panel and title page. Frontis and all plates present. A lovely copy in the scarce dust jacket.