Moseley (Sydney A.) and Herbert McKay. Television:
£250
A Guide for the Amateur
London, OUP, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive work on the evolving technology of television.
In stock
A little light foxing, ink name to front pastedown; cloth very good; jacket rather worn at head of spine and upper fore-corners, spine very slightly sunned, otherwise very good.
Photographic illustrations.
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