[Rarebooks] FS: Boy's Life of Edison, SIGNED by Thomas Edison

[Charles Agvent]

[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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