[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Thomas Edison: THE BOY'S LIFE OF EDISON
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Mon Mar 12 17:02:10 EDT 2007
[EDISON, Thomas] MEADOWCROFT, William. THE BOY'S LIFE OF EDISON.
Harper & Brothers New York (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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