[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Thomas Edison Boy's Life

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               [EDISON,  Thomas]  MEADOWCROFT, William. THE BOY'S  LIFE
          OF EDISON.   New  York:  Harper   &  Brothers  (1911).  First
          Edition.  Early  but  not first  printing.  Publisher's  sage
          green pebble-grain  cloth  with front cover stamped in  blind
          and lettered  in  gilt  with oval  photographic  portrait  of
          Edison  pasted to center. Illustrated with eight photographic
          plates  including  a frontispiece portrait of Edison.  SIGNED
          by Thomas  Edison  with his umbrella signature on  the  front
          flyleaf.  Gilt on spine a little dull, small stain on  bulked
          fore-edge  of text. Slight offsetting from a newsclipping  to
          two facing  text  pages.  Owner  inscription  on  front  free
          endpaper  dated 1911 with a small ink stamp dated August  20,
          1913, on  the  front flyleaf well below  Edison's  signature.
          Near Fine                                            $3500.00

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