Edison Charles, Signed (7 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page and signed on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Author inscribed on the first free end paper: "Aug. 8, 1979, Bernie - From one Edison buff to an Edison scholar. John Venable". Gilt lettering on black covers in a black pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 289pp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Jacket. Inscribed on FEP by author, dated Nov. 3, 1979. Jacket has rubbing, but is brodarted and not price-clipped. Binding tight. Light soiling ot page-edges. Pages clean. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original cloth. Inscribed to the half title page by Welch, in the year of publication. Cloth soiled/rubbed, lower cover damped. Foxing to the endsheets. Firm binding. Laid in is a photo of the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. 18p., b&w illustrations and facsimiles, rear pocket with zoetrope wheel; text printed on calendared paperstock with edges left untrimmed, hardbound issue, 10.5x8 inches; has a lovely coarse-linen spine over matte-black boards with printed face label. Copy no.145 of 250 only. Cloth-backing is mildly toned from handling; preliminary leaves and terminal leaf bear a small faint damp-stain while leaves between are free of it; pastedown has a private bookplate (a very nice one), the ffep and next blank both are inscribed by Charles Clarke to art director Leland Fuller: a rather formal presentation on ffep, and a warm personal one on the blank. A very good copy. Inscribee Fuller (1899-1962) was Hollywood art director, worked on numerous films from 1943 til his death including Viva Zapata!, was oscar-nominated for that and five others.

Trenton Sept 9, 1941. 14 x 8.5", printed & typed document, framed, not examined out of frame but appears vg other than fairly uniform toning, with state seal vignette at top & large embossed blue paper seal at bottom. SIGNED BY CHARLES EDISON AS GOVERNOR. Charles was the son of Thomas Alva Edison, and his signature mimics his father's (except for the TAE umbrella). Appoints Harry B. Bell as a member of the Good Will Commission.

4 vols. 8vo and smaller. 4 vols. 8vo and smaller. Interesting group of 4 pamphlets annotated and inscribed by the famed inventor Thomas Alva Edison to his son Charles, comprising: Plummer, W. C. Social and Economic Consequences of Buying on the Instalment Plan. Supplement to Vol. CXXIX of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Grey wrappers, inscribed in pencil, "Charles Please take this & read it carefully it is sound. TAE" With several annotations by TAE, e.g., "People buy insurance on the instalment plan this has gone on for centuries", "How about war bonds", and various marginal notations. Printers' Ink. A Journal for Advertisers. Vol. CXXIX, No. 6, 1924. "Charles p 89" on cover, and "Running the Rapids of Popularity" (pp. 89-90), annotated: "Charles, Victor advertising" Americanizing the British Empire. Whaley-Eaton Pamphlets Vol. II, No. 6, 1926. "Good TAE" The Red Nose. Being a Small Group of Cheerful Rhapsodies on Alcohol and Politics. By Howard Kendall, Secretary of the Dipsomaniac Division of The League of the Unorganized, Cleveland, Ohio, [n.d., ca. 1926]. "Charles TAE" A choice group of material demonstraiting the range of the inventor's interests. Wrappers. Very Good. Laid into a full green morocco folding box, marked on lower turn-in in gilt "Gov. Charles Edison Library".