The Inventor And The Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, The Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, And The Birth of Moving Pictures
by Edward Ball
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BALL, Edward: The Inventor And The Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, The Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, And The Birth of Moving Pictures. New York, Anchor Books, 2013. First Anchor Books Edition, November 2013 (paperback). Softcover, 447 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / True Crime. Condition: Very Good Plus. Tiny nick at the lower extremity of the lower left hand corner on the reverse cover. Otherwise a nice copy interspersed with black and white photography. All pages clean and unmarked. Sensational account of one of the most notorious murder trials of 19th century America – and of the unlikely origins of cinematography by a gifted, yet troubled pioneering photographer and of his patron Leland Stanford, the railroad tycoon and founder of Stanford University. An exciting work of true crime and history! ISBN: 9780767929400
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EDWARD BALL is the author of four works of nonfiction, including the bestselling, National Book Award-winning Slaves in the Family . Born and raised in the South, he attended Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Iowa before coming to New York and working as an art critic for the Village Voice . He lives in Connecticut and teaches writing at Yale University.
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- Title
- The Inventor And The Tycoon
- Author
- Edward Ball
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback Ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0767929403
- ISBN 13
- 9780767929400
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Nonfiction / History / True Crime
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- THE BROOKLYN BOOKMAN – USED, OUT OF PRINT, RARE & COLLECTIBLE BOOKS CATALOG; Great Works of History; True Crime;
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