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192617575New York: Simon & Schuster 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two 8vo volumes. Publisher's blue cloth with decoration and titles in gilt. Top edges gilt. Lacking the scarce dust jacket and slipcase. Spines toned. Moderate edgewear to cloth. Spots of soil throughout. Ex libris. Small bookseller's label at rear pastedown. End papers toned. Texblock generally bright and clean. Sound. Very good. 868pp. <br/><br/>An important work in film history from the silent era noted for its attention to detail and emphasizing technological innovation and commecial enterprise. Formerly a publicity director at Mutual Film Corporation Ramsay developed this book out of a running column in Photoplay Magazine. Viejo 4.2. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1911110225New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1911. 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. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
