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Phantasmagoria


The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern

by Mervyn Heard

312pp.
£30.00 plus postage



I Want to See This Annie Mattygraph


A Cartoon History of the Coming of the Movies

by Stephen Bottomore

312pp.



Masterpieces of Animation 1833-1908


Exhibition catalogue, 1991.

David Robinson

128pp.
£12.50 plus postage



Image Makers


From Shadow Theatre to Cinema

Jordi Pons i Busquet, Roman Gubern

221pp.
£22.00 plus postage



Christie's (London, South Kensington) sales catalogues


Important sales from the past decade


Several now available


The Incomparable Testot! Selections from a 19th Century Magician's Paragraph Book


Introduced by Edwin A. Dawes

36pp.
ISBN 1 9030 000084
£8.95 plus postage - (Published in association with the National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield)


Eadweard Muybridge: The Kingston Museum Bequest


edited by Stephen Herbert

159pp, including 24p colour section.
ISBN 1 903000 07 6
£35.00 UK postage included - (Published in association with Kingston Museum and Heritage Service)


Pleasurelands: All the Fun of the Fair!


by Vanessa Toulmin

96pp, including 16p colour section.
ISBN 1 903000 06 8
£10.00 plus postage (Published by the National Fairground Archive, in association with
The Projection Box)


Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey


edited by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan

178pp
ISBN 0 85170 539 1
£8.99 plus £2.00 postage - (Published by the BFI in 1996 - ORIGINALLY £40)


For Ladies Only? Eve's Film Review: Pathe Cinemagazine 1921-33


by Jenny Hammerton

A5 , 104pp
£14.95 plus postage


The Kinora Library - A Descriptive List of Moving Pictures that you may see in your own Home

Reproduction of an original Kinora Reels catalogue.

A5 , 28pp
ISBN 1 903 000 01 7,
£8.00 plus postage


The Titanic and Silent Cinema

by Stephen Bottomore

A5 , 191pp, profusely illustrated.
ISBN 1 903000 00 9,
£16.95 plus postage



A Yank in Britain

The Lost Memoirs of Charles Urban, Film Pioneer
With foreword & afterword by Luke McKernan

A5, 96 pages 23 illustrations
ISBN 0 9523941 2 X
£9.95 plus postage


Randall Williams - King of Showmen:
From Ghost Show to Bioscope

by Vanessa Toulmin

A5 paperback 54pp numerous illustrations
ISBN 0 9523941 9 7
£7.95 plus postage OUT OF PRINT


Industry, Liberty, and a Vision...
Wordsworth Donisthorpe's Kinesigraph

by Stephen Herbert

A5 paperback 120pp numerous illustrations
ISBN 0 9523941 3 8
£10.95 plus postage


Theodore Brown's Magic Pictures

by Stephen Herbert

Large format hardback. 130 pp (8 pp in full colour). 200 illustrations. Includes set of 3 viewers.
ISBN 0 9523941 4 6
£32 plus postage


The Kinora - motion pictures for the home, 1896-1914

by Barry Anthony

A5, 40pp, numerous illustrations.
ISBN 0 9523941 6 2
£4.50 plus postage


Ottomar Anschutz and his Electrical Wonder

by Deac Rossell

A5, 40pp, 14 illustrations
ISBN 0 9523941 8 9
£4.50 plus postage OUT OF PRINT


Dr. Paris's Thaumatrope or Wonder Turner

by John Barnes

A5, 32pp. 16 illustrations,
8 bibliographic references.
ISBN 0 9523941 5 4,
£3.50 OUT OF PRINT


Victorian Film Catalogues

From the W.D. SLADE ARCHIVE

A5, 48pp.
ISBN 0 9523941 1 1,
£4.50 plus postage


When the Movies Began...
A chronology of the world's film productions and film shows before May, 1896

Compiled by Stephen Herbert

A5, 24pp, includes 70 bibliographic references.
ISBN 0 9523941 0 3,
£2.95 plus postage


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