[Rarebooks] FS: Ruth Gordon's Copy of SIGNED Thomas Edison's History of the Motion Picture, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $3500 NET

[EDISON, Thomas] RAMSAYE, Terry. A MILLION AND ONE NIGHTS. A HISTORY OF 
THE MOTION PICTURE. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. First Edition. 
Original blue cloth; lxx, [ii], 400 pages. 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. (#010639)        
$4,500.00

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