Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [*SIGNED*]

Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing. Near Fine. (c.2007). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new but for an unfortunate patch of laminate-peeling at the bottom corner of the rear cover, which has been somewhat crudely "patched" with a strip of clear tape]. (Images of America) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. Primarily a history of the American Film Company (known colloquially as the "Flying A," based on its winged logo), which was founded in Chicago in 1910 and from 1912 located its primary production facility in Santa Barbara, California. Like other volumes in this excellent series, it's primarily a photographic chronicle -- but its author, the late Robert Birchard, devoted many years of research into the company's history and supplied uncommonly erudite and well-documented photo captions (which make up most of the book's text). Signed by Author .