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391 - Thomas Edison Signed Book - The Boy's Life of Edison
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Thomas Edison Signed Book - The Boy's Life of Edison Signed book: The Boy's Life of Edison by William H. Meadowcroft, featuring "Autobiographical notes by Mr. Edison." New illustrated edition. NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921. Hardcover with gilt titling to the spine and front board, which bears a portrait of Thomas Edison, 5.25 x 7.5, 367 pages. Signed on the first free end page in ink, "Thos. A. Edison," and inscribed below by the author, "To Lynton I. Briggs, with good wishes, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, July 5, 1929." Autographic condition: very good to fine, with slightly irregular light toning to the signed page. Book condition: VG/None, with minor edgewear and sunning to spine. Published a decade after its 1911 first edition, this illustrated 1921 edition of The Boy's Life of Edison was written by William H. Meadowcroft, Edison's longtime personal secretary and close associate. Intended for young readers, the work drew upon Meadowcroft's firsthand knowledge of the inventor and became one of the earliest and most widely read biographical accounts of Edison's life.
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