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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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. The first book in English devoted to television. Original printed wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, the wrappers in fine condition, the jacket with some light soiling and small closed tears to the lower edge. 62 pp.; 12 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of inventor John Logie Baird and a print of the first photograph ever taken by television. "On January 23, 1926, Baird gave a demonstration of his television apparatus to some 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory in Frith Street, Soho. This was the first public demonstration of true television ever witnessed. The images of human faces, not as outlines or silhouettes but complete with tonal gradations of light and shade and detail were transmitted between two rooms," A. Abramson, The History of Television, 1880 to 1941 (1987), p. 84.

London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First edition of the first book on television. Original red cloth, gilt on the front cover. This now uncommon book is more frequently found in printed wrappers, priced 2/- for popular distribution, bound copies cost 2/6, and probably only a very few were made, for libraries. The bound issue contains a double flyleaf at the front, and a single flyleaf at the back, both of (coated) text paper, while the wrappered issue has no flyleaves nor endpapers. January 1927 ownership inscription. Slight rubbing to extremities; very good condition. 62 pp.; 12 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of inventor John Logie Baird and a print of the first photograph ever taken by (i.e. transmitted by) television. "On January 23, 1926, Baird gave a demonstration of his television apparatus to some 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory in Frith Street, Soho. This was the first public demonstration of true television ever witnessed. The images of human faces,… Read More

London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First Book on Television in English: Superb Copy Dinsdale, Alfred. Television: Seeing by wireless. 8vo. 62pp. London: W. S. Caines for Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 186 x 125 mm. Original printed paper boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very fine copy. Boxed. First Edition of the first book in English on television. Dinsdale discusses the technical challenges faced by early experimenters (Jan van Szczepanik, Boris Rosing, Denoys von Kihaly 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 Baird produced the first television image in outline, and in April 1925 he transmitted the first pictures between two televisions. By the following October Baird had succeeded in transmitting images with gradations of light and shade, and on January 27, 1926, he successfully transmitted recognizable human faces between two rooms by television. Of… Read More

London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. Frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird signed by Baird ("JL Baird") 10 plates included in pagination. 12mo. Original printed buff stiff wrappers, dust jacket. A fine copy in a slightly soiled jacket with tape repaired tears. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird signed by Baird ("JL Baird") 10 plates included in pagination. 12mo. First book on television, signed by Baird. WITH THE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT SIGNED BY JOHN LOGIE BAIRD. 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. An key book in the history of technology; we trace no other copies in the trade or at auction signed by Baird.