[Rarebooks] FS: EDISON: HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS, 1910 First Edition SIGNED by Thomas Edison

[Charles Agvent]

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[EDISON, Thomas] DYER, Frank Lewis and MARTIN, Thomas Commerford. 
EDISON: HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 
1910. First Edition. First printing. Two volumes in publisher's blue 
cloth with the spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 
numerous plates including two frontispiece portraits of Edison. SIGNED 
in ink by Thomas Edison on the front endpaper of the first volume. 
Between the introduction and the half-title is a page with the statement 
"This book is published with my consent" over Edison's printed 
signature. Near Fine set, lacking dustwrappers if they ever had them. 
(#016234)        $4,000.00

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