Thomas Edison, Signed (45 results)

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

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate on front endpage.

New/unused condition; **SIGNED BY AUTHOR**.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A novel of Edison's life as told by his second wife, Mina Miller Edison. Spine ends gently bumped. Inscribed on the title page to Maryellen and signed by Seaman, dated 4/7/2015. Inscribed By the Author.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Flat signed on title page. No markings on text. Jacket in Good condition. Discoloration on top edge of jacket. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, inscribed to no one in particular and signed by the author: "Best wishes - Leonard DeGraaf." Book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, jacket is clean and attractive, moderate rubbing to the glossy surface is the only flaw, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, included with this copy are seven Edison postcards and an insert about the Edison National Historic Park in New Jersey," The 200 photographs in this book, selected from the Edison National Historic Site archives, portray Edison's long career," nice gift copy; ; 205 pages; Signed by Author.

First edition first printing signed by the author on title page "Michele W. Albion" with black pen. xix, 239 pages. 8vo Blue and yellow boards stamped in gilt on spine. Dust jacket. Like new/ Like new.

New/unused condition; **SIGNED BY AUTHOR**.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wirth, Edward., Arcadia Publishing, c2008, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine, 128 pp with bibliography, extensive B&W photographic illus., tall 8vo, nicely SIGNED 'Best Wishes, Edward Wirth' by the author, ISBN: 9780738557212, 'Thomas Edison spent the second half of his life in West Orange, about 10 miles from New York City. There he built his last and largest laboratory, where he developed motion pictures, improved the phonograph, and built an international business empire, earning over half of his 1093 patents', 'Images of America', Local History; West Orange, New Jersey; Biography. Collectible Signed Copy; scarce. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing SIGNED. Fully signed by the author on the full title page. Fine and bright in like dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Trifle line through original price on dust flap which bothers none of the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 184 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/NF. 1st Ed., 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by author on title page. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd printing. Unpaginated. Signed by author on title page with a little drawing of Edisons's face. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No binding. A circa 1930s pictorial advertising card, postcard size, with a signed (printed) portrait of Edison on one side and the advertising language and Edison Dictating Machine logo on the other. A better than very good copy, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Author signed on the first free end paper. Black lettering on orange cloth covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 373pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Toffoli, Andrew; Gonzalez, Maria (color design); Kneski, Joanne (color design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition glossy color illustrated oblong boards. Includes Author Dedication; and a rear section entitled Coming Soon from Hi-Stories. Profusely illustrated with color drawings. Signed and inscribed with thick black marker/Sharpie by the author/illustrator, Andrew Toffoli, with an added original illustrated animal face drawing on the inner front board. "Our mission is to educate children about history while using humor and imagination to teach valuable life lessons." - from the copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Hardcover in turquoise cloth lettered in gilt. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 87 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrations. Deaccessioned from the Library of Congress as a duplicate and so stamped on front and rear endpapers. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. Treatise on the hisotry of Roselle, New Jersey with particlar emphasis on its involvement with Thomas Edison.

Hardback. No Dustjacket. Bound in red cloth with gold gilt lettering and design. Salesman dummy edition which has black and white photos at the start of the book, and then has all the books chapters presented in a very condensed coversion, with the last few pages being the sign up pages for subscribers to the book which have not been filled in at all. Book is a Tight square unmarked copy in Very Good Plus Condition. Folded Black and white advertising sheet for the book is laid in loose at the front endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Johns Hopkins, 2011. First edition. First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by editors Paul B. Israel and Louis Carlat ("Paul + Louie"), inscribed to "Al" (either Alastair Bellany, Allen Howard, or Alvin J. Salkind, who are thanked for their contributions in the preface) on the half-title page, as pictured. F3129. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition. Thick 4to 10 1/4" tall x 7 1/4". Grey cloth stamped in black and gilt. xlvii, 727 pages. Letter with Rutger University letterhead from the director and editor Reese V. Jenkins to "Mrs. Mary Fitzpatrick" assistant manager of Edison Winter Home signed by Jenkins with black pen laid-in. Clean. Tightly bound. Dust jacket. Like new/ Like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. William Barss (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Illustrations by William Barss. A remarkably sharp copy. This copy inscribed by North to his son: "For my beloved and only son - David - with the love of his father - who happens also to be the author Sterling North." And all around wonderful copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Spine bumped, Corners bumped & rubbed. Heavy book - over 700g, may require extra postage; B&W Illustrations; 8.4 x 5.45 x 1.35"; 362 pages; Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. [Autograph]. Edison Botonic Research Corporation business check, 3 x 8.25 inches. Check number 1307, payable to N.J. Laboratory Supply Co. for $10.51, dated Dec. 29, 1929 and boldly SIGNED by Thomas Edison as "Thos. A. Edison" at lower right. With cancel cuts not affecting the signature. Edison's umbrella signature is a high spot among autograph collectors. Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He worked in the fields of electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. Displayed under four-scew clear with black border plexiglass dispay case which has some wear. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. One page autograph letter entirely in Edison's hand and signed by her, written to Mr. MacManus. No date, circa 1945. Americana. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Autograph.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to film historian Robert S. Birchard: ÒTo Bob, thanks, Frederick C Wieber, 9/1/97, Cinecon 33.Ó The first film version of the classic tale. Wiebel self-published this 150 page book about EdisonÕs 15 minute silent film, carefully researching the making of the film with the Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, and the National Park Service Edison National Historical Site. With much production information, including special effects, illustrations and photographs, contemporary newspaper articles, reprinted stills from the film, all on colored papers. Paperbound. Fine in printed wrappers.

46 signed letters [34 TLS, 12 ALS] comprising decades of correspondence between Frederick Gardner Cottrell and various notable figures of his day in U.S. politics, the international science community, and academia. All letters are housed in new archival mylar sleeves. Cottrell was a notable chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, best known today for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator - one of the first inventions to combat air pollution - and his founding of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, which used the revenue from the electrostatic precipitator to fund further scientific research, and continues to do so today. While best remembered for these feats, Cottrell had a long and influential career both in the U.S. Federal Government and as a science consultant. He was well known nationally and internationally - in industry, in government, and in academia - for his support of and contributions to new ideas and new talent within the scientific community. The letters, which span from 1901-1941, track Cottrell over the course of 40 years, and evidence the many relationships he had over that period with some of the most influential people of the time. These include a letter of introduction from Alexander Graham Bell, a discussion of chemistry with Thomas Edison, replies from two Nobel Prize winning scientists - the discoverer of the noble gasses, William Ramsay, and discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson - to Cottrell's request to study in their labs, and exchanges with two presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson. Other letters show his personal interactions with leading scientists of his day (Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georges Claude, George E. Hale) and heads of industry (Henry L. Doherty, Ivy Lee), and track the path of his career through his time as the director of the Bureau of Mines; to chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on the National Research Council; to head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Lab, and beyond. These letters, the vast majority of which were sent by these notable figures to Cottrell, evidence his expertise, the depth and breadth of his professional interests, and his eagerness to collaborate and share research and ideas, coming together to trace the life of a man whose work was and continues to be consequential to the advancement of science as a whole. CONTENTS: 1-Page TLS from inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell to a Mr. Fish, dated December 20, 1911, introducing Cottrell to him. In Very Good condition. In this letter, Bell is writing in his capacity as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. On 1331 Connecticut Avenue letterhead. Faintly creased, with mild wrinkling along the edges. Signed in black ink by Bell: "Alexander Graham Bell". 1-page TLS from inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison to Cottrell dated January 13, 1925, discussing the unexpected results of a past chemistry experiment of his in relation to the generation of ammonia. In Very Good condition. TLS is on Edison's personal letterhead ("From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison"). Lightly age toned, with some wrinkling and small closed tears along the top edge. Faintly creased from past folding. Signed by Edison in black ink: "Thos. A. Edison". Includes a lightly soiled 1-page facsimile of Cottrell's reply. 2-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning physicist Joseph John Thomson to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated July 6, 1901, discussing the possibility of Cottrell coming to study at Thomson's lab. In Very Good condition. In 1901, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin, seeking to study in the laboratory of an accomplished scientist. Thomson was already a figure of some renown for his 1897 discovery of the electron, which represented the first identification of a subatomic particle, and would be awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his work. ALS is on Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge letterhead, and shows a faint crease across the middle and light pencil writing in the top margin of the first page. Small red pencil mark beneath letterhead. Signed in black ink by Thomson: "J. J. Thomson". 1-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning chemist William Ramsay to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated 14th August, 1901, in which Ramsay says there is no availability for Cottrell to study in his lab. In Very Good condition. As with the letter from J. J. Thomson, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin at the time this letter was sent. In 1901, Ramsay was just a few years away from his landmark 1904 discovery of argon, the first identified noble gas, which would earn him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and lead to the development of a new section of the periodic table. ALS is lightly toned along the edges, faintly creased, with a similar red pencil mark in the top margin. Signed by Ramsay in black ink: "W. Ramsay". 1-page TLS from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to Cottrell, dated September 17, 1920. In Very Good minus condition. Brief letter of thanks for Cottrell's forwarding another person's letter to Hoover. On Hoover's personal letterhead. Faintly stamped, "Received / 1920 Sep 18 / Interior Department Bureau of Mines / Washington D.C.". Small rust marks and light wrinkling along the top margin; faintly creased. Signed in black ink by Hoover: "Herbert Hoover". Two 1-page TLS's from Herbert Hoover, each part of an exchange with Cottrell. In Very Good condition. Includes a 2-page facsimile of Cottrell's response. First Hoover TLS sent February 5, 1926; Cottrell's response sent February 8, 1926; Hoover's second TLS sent February 12, 1926. In his first letter, Hoover asks Cottrell about the potential improper investigation of a new method of creating aluminum by the Bureau of Mines. In the second letter, Hoover thanks Cottrell for clearing up the issue. Hoover's letters are on Department of Commerce letterhead. Letters show fa. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 12mo (171 x 108mm). 144pp., bound with 81 numbered pages of dense manuscript transcription of Merten's later publication Éléments de Philosophie Morale which was published in two volumes in 1884 and 1885. The manuscript is in the hand of one of Merten's students, Oscar Livolls, his name inscribed to printed title-page and in at least two other places. Manuscript in uniform hand throughout, sometimes changing ink color, the second manuscript part in 88 pages separated into sections titled "Logique" and "Psychologie," the text is identified on short title as originating from coursework with Merten and Professor R.F. Fillet (at Ghent University where they taught). Third manuscript part in 128 pages titled "Pharmacognosie" with final section paginated separately (15 pages) but continuing in contents and ending with "Fin. Bruxelles, le 15 juin 1885" and signed again by "OLivolls." After which are 18 manuscript pages of conclusions, formulas and tables. Mid 19th-century maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; (extensive underlining to text, lightly toned at edges). Of utmost rarity, one copy of the 1876 Éléments de Philosophie Populaire was found in the US, in Brown University, the only other in South Africa, University of Johannesburg. Merten's work proposed to demonstrate the chief results obtained from the application of the empirical method of observation to philosophy. The rarity of the printed work along with the presence of accompanying inscribed material by Merten's student is a superb survival and unique association. Of particular importance to the manuscript is a hand-colored diagram of Thomas Edison's newly invented light bulb (p. 56 in "Pharmacognosie").

Vintage albumen print from New York's Falk studios. 300 x 182 mm, mounted on card. A large and early portrait of America's most legendary inventor, signed in full below the image. - Rubbed and worn; edges chipped with traces of former mounting; a dampstain in the upper portion of the background.

1 vols. 7 x 9 inches. 1 vols. 7 x 9 inches. Inscribed beneath the photo: "In memory 1847-1937" "To Mr. Ludwig F. Ott / from / Mina M. Edison Hughes [Edison's daughter] Ludwig Ott was a lifelong employee of Thomas Edison. In the original studio mat and folder.

Rare Edison Phonograph Works stock certificate boldly signed by Thomas Edison. Printed document boldly signed "Thomas A. Edison" as President and "J.F. Randolph" as Treasurer, one page, numbered 106, dated November 6, 1899. Stock certificate for three 750/1000 shares of $100 Capitol Stock to James D.W. Cutting. Transfer information present on verso, showing that the stock was transferred to Mina Edison (Thomas' second wife) in 1904. In very good condition with cancellation passing through Randolph's signature, light toning. The original receipt remains affixed at the left edge. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor who developed many devices including the motion picture camera, the phonograph and the electric light bulb. He played a pivotal role in the development of sound recording technology through his company, Edison Phonograph Works. Established in New Jersey on May 3,1888, this company was instrumental in refining the phonograph, a device Edison had originally invented in 1877. The firm focused on manufacturing and improving wax cylinder recordings, which became the dominant medium for early sound reproduction. Edisonâs commitment to innovation led to advancements in both phonograph design and the mass production of recorded music and spoken-word content. Despite competition from emerging disc-based technologies, Edison Phonograph Works remained influential in the industry until it was eventually absorbed into Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1924. The companyâs legacy endures as a foundational contributor to the modern recording industry.

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".