Phonograph Records And Books Auction - ONLINE ONLY
Lot 2024:
Description
This remarkable lot features seven vintage and antique books dedicated to the life, work, and innovations of Thomas Alva Edison. As a collector, I am particularly drawn to the 1889 first edition of Edison and His Inventions edited by J.B. McClure and published by Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company in Chicago, and the booklet The Phonograph and Its Inventor (noted as a Xerox copy). The collection also includes a 1926 copy of George S. Bryan’s Edison: The Man and His Work from Garden City Publishing Company, bearing a lovely handwritten Christmas dedication from 1929, David E. Nye’s The Invented Self signed and inscribed by the author, the French edition Mon Ami Mr. Edison by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, Frank Andrews’ Edison Phonograph: The British Connection (1986), and J. Maurice Hicks’ Roselle, New Jersey: Site of Thomas Alva Edison’s First Village Plant (1979) complete with a 1973 PG&E Edison commemorative newspaper insert. Overall, the collection is in good to very good condition, showing expected age-related shelf wear, minor toning to pages, a split spine on the McClure volume, and light corner scuffing on the bindings. H 9.5″, W 6.5″, D 7″. Please see photos for condition.
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