[Rarebooks] FS: Children's Biography of Thomas Edison SIGNED by 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. (#012378) $3,500.00

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