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(FILM.) Ramsaye, Terry. A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture. Numerous plates. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, original blue cloth, faint diagonal scratch on Volume 2 rear cover, pastedowns browned, otherwise a crisp, clean set. New York, 1926
first edition. one of 327 sets, signed by ramsaye and thomas edison, this set unnumbered. "This book is the first important history of the film. It contains both a wealth of information on the early days of the film (after Lumière) and pertinent pre-film history"--Talbot, Film (1975), page 249.
