EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AND GROUCHO MARX

National Broadcasting Company, 1957. First Edition. Very good in a very good jacket.. Promotional booklet for NBC's educational television programs, containing black-and-white stills and text describing the network's moral philosophy to provide high-quality educational programming in addition to pure entertainment. The text surveys their offerings, from opera and music to history, travel documentary and interviews with the likes of Bertrand Russell and Pablo Picasso, which are provided at no cost to local stations. An interesting document of a precursor to public broadcasting in the development of television. Wraps. 4to. Publisher's wraps in original dust jacket. Jacket moderately worn at edgeworn with several small chips and small scab at front panel. Initials in black felt-tip pen at ffep, interior else bright and clean. About very good.