[Rarebooks] FS: A HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE Signed by Thomas Edison. Ruth Gordon's Copy
Charles Agvent
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Fri Jul 21 10:46:18 EDT 2006
[EDISON, Thomas] RAMSAYE, Terry. A MILLION AND ONE NIGHTS. A
HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE. New York: Simon & Schuster 1926. First
Edition. lxx, [ii], 400 pp. The first volume only of a two-volume
set. One of only 327 copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation
page and by Thomas Edison beneath a printed statement that begins:
"This is, I believe, the first endeavor to set down the whole and
true story of the motion picture." This copy is out-of-series and
bears two bookplates of the husband-and-wife playwright Garson Kanin
and the actress Ruth Gordon (HAROLD AND MAUDE). Near Fine $4500.00
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