Edison To His Son Charles
Social and Economic Consequences of Buying on the Instalment Plan. Annotated and Inscribed from Thomas Alva Edison to his son Charles Edison, with three additional pamphlets.
Philadelphia, New York, Washington, etc: American Academy of Political and Social Science; Printers’ Ink; The League of the Unorganized, 1924-1927.
Price: $10,000.00
About the item
4 vols. 8vo and smaller. Edison To His Son Charles. Wrappers. Very Good. Laid into a full green morocco folding box, marked on lower turn-in in gilt “Gov. Charles Edison Library”.
Item #312912
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.
