George Eastman
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2352641
First edition. Spine toned, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xviii, 522 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by the world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers Leon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumiere Brothers and Georges Melies.
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