The Biograph in Battle. Its Story in the South African War Related with Personal Experiences
signed first edition
1901 · London
by DICKSON, W.K.L. (WILLIAM KENNEDY-LAURIE)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson to Captain C. R. E. Radclyffe, a founder of the international sporting organization Shikar Club and author of Big Game Shooting in Alaska, whose bookplate is on the front pastedown. Inscribed: “To Capt. C. E. Radclyffe, Comp. of the author, W-Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, June 23 / 05.” Illustrated throughout with photographs and sketches by the author including a foldout panorama. A very good slightly used copy in olive green cloth lettered in black and gilt on spine and in white and black on the pictorial upper board with some minor edge wear to the cloth. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and groundbreaking filmmaker who devised an early motion picture camera while under the employment of Thomas Edison. In 1895 he founded the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company which was the first motion picture company devoted entirely to film production and exhibition. From late 1899 through mid 1900 Dickson was in South Africa filming scenes of the Boer War, often at the very front of the action. (Inventory #: 20980E)