Edison Thomas Meadowcroft William (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 217 clean, unmarked pages; blue pictorial c. B/W Illus (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Later edition. SIGNED BY EDISON. Autobiographical notes by Thomas A. Edison. Cracked in one place, front hinge tender, Good. No Dust Jacket. Christmas 1929 written once in pencil and once in ink. Signed by John E. McCafferty, Auxiliary Bishop of Rochester, NY 1968-1980. Inscribed to McCafferty by author William H. Meadowcroft and signed by him. Above the inscription in a bold hand is the notable "umbrella" signature of "Thos A Edison." Pastedown of photograph of Thomas A. Edison on front cover. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. First Edition; Early Printing. Very Good+ in a Good- dust jacket. Postage stamp on FEP placed by author. Faint chipping along panel edges. Half ring stain on rear panel. Soiling along spine.; Boldly signed by Edison on the FEP. Also signed by author William H. Meadowcroft, addressed to Walter F. Huebner, a former accountant employed by Edison for 53 years.; Signed by Author, Associated. Signed.…

First edition of Meadowcroft's biography of Thomas Edison, written for children. Octavo, original cloth with paper label portrait of Edison to the front panel, illustrated with eight photographic portraits of Edison including tissue-guarded frontispiece. With Edison's autobiographical notes. Boldly signed on the second free endpaper, "Thomas A. Edison." In very good condition. First printings are uncommon signed. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor who developed many devices including the motion picture camera, the phonograph and the electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.…

Hardcover. First Edition. 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; "Published November, 1911" on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates including a frontispiece portrait of Edison. SIGNED by Thomas Edison with his umbrella signature on the front endpaper. Gilt on spine a little dull, slight rubbing to front cover. Early owner inscription on front free endpaper well below Edison's signature. Near Fine.…

With Autobiographical Notes by Mr. Edison. 367 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth with applied portrait of Edison to front panel. Later edition, with "C-A" on verso of title page. Shadow of former clipping to front pastedown and endsheet; otherwise a fresh, near fine copy. With a 1927 inscription by Meadowcroft on the front free endpaper. Thomas Edison's signature appears above the inscription.…