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VINTAGE TELEPHONES OF THE WORLD by P.J. Povey and R.A.J. Earl (PPL Department/IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331—$54.00, ISBN 0-86341-1401, 202 pp.)THE GEC' RESEARCH LABORATORIES 1919-1984 by Robert Clayton and Joan Alger (same sources as book immediately above—$90.00, ISBN 0- 86341-146-0, 438 pp.)A HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS 1871-1971 by W.J. Reader (same source as first book in this section—$38.00, ISBN 0-86341-1037, 327 pp.)UNTAPPED SOURCES: AMERICA'S NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES AND HISTORIES by Jon Vanden Heuvel (New York: Gannet Foundation Media Center, Columbia University, 1991—price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 101 pp.)WINNING PULITZERS: THE STORIES BEHIND SOME OF THE BEST NEWS COVERAGE OF OUR TIME by Karen Rothmyer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991—$29.99, ISBN 0-231-07028-4, 211 pp.)THE NEWSPRINT MASK: THE TRADITION OF THE FICTIONAL JOURNALIST IN AMERICA edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991—$25.95, ISBN 0-8138-0682-8, 268 pp.)GRANDMA'S PHONE BOOK: PHOTO COLLECTION OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY by David Rader (available from the author at 417 Riley Ave., Ft. Valley, GA 31030—$15.00, paper, no ISBN given, 124 pp.)ANTIQUE RADIO CLASSIFIED (P.O. Box 2, Carlisle, MA 01741—monthly by subscription at various rates: inquire)BOILERPLATING AMERICA: THE HIDDEN NEWSPAPER by Eugene Harter (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991—$43.75/26.00, ISBN 0-8191-8092-3 hard, 0-8191-8083-1, 246 pp.) |
