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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Zustand: FINE. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) The author's hightly praised first novel, set mostly in Southern California as the events of Nixon's impeachment play out on the radio in the background. Publisher's material laid in. Tall format. 223 pp. Fine in printed green wrappers.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 320 pages. Cover creased and worn.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 100 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Tall green wrappers. Glue remnants, toning, and curling thus very good.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. A few pages slightly wrinkled, foredge with a small spot, toning to text block edges and wrappers, front cover with glue shadows, spine faded, good only. First novel from the New York radio personality, set mostly in Southern California.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Slight toning and some spotting else near fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 324-337 and 1 engraved plate. A faint dampstain to top of plate. First appearance of Drummond's paper in which he described his (and Goldsworthy Gurney's) invention and coined the word 'limelight'. His apparatus, demonstrated on the plate, was originally used for surveying as the title of the paper shows. Drummond claimed the light to be 83 times brighter than any previous artificial light.The Scottish engineer, Thomas Drummond (1797-1840), saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working version in 1826, and the device is sometimes called the Drummond Light after him. Limelight was first used in public in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots (spotlights). Limelight was replaced by electric arc lighting in the late 19th century. (Wikipedia)."John Hersehel describes the impression produced when the light was first exhibited in the Tower: "The common Argand burner and parabolic reflector of a British lighthouse were first exhibited, the room being darkened, and with considerable effect. Fresnel?s superb lamp was next disclosed, at whose superior effect the other seemed to dwindle, and showed in a manner quite subordinate. But when the gas began to play, the lime being brought now to its full ignition and the screen suddenly removed, a glare shone forth, overpowering, and as it were annihilating, both its predecessors, which appeared by its side, the one as a feeble gleam which it required attention to see, the other like a mere plate of heated metal. A shout of triumph and of admiration burst from all present."? (DNB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1825 C.