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Thomas Edison Gives Instructions to His Lab For the Production of Resins Used in His Batteries and Phonograph Records by Thomas Edison

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Title: Thomas Edison Gives Instructions to His Lab For the Production of Resins Used in His Batteries and Phonograph Records
Author: Thomas Edison
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 20/01/1927. Thomas Edison and Electricity are almost synonymous. Edison invented many electricity-inspired devices, such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and a forerunner of the movie projector. To create the electricity, he set up the world's first electricity generation plant, and developed a complete electrical distribution system for light and power. These are are just a few of the host of his electricity inventions that laid the basis for the modern electric world. So it is not surprising that he should seek a self-generating source of electricity; in other words, a battery.Edison’s interest in batteries was long-standing and dated back to his time as a telegraph inventor. He was among the first to try to develop consumer-friendly batteries, and made important improvements in battery design, inventing alkaline batteries. He began investigating storage batteries as early as the 1880s, but it was the advent of automobiles in the late 1890s that spurred him to develop a storage battery to power them. Electrical power would, Edison felt, be a much better solution than gasoline. He stated, “Electricity is the thing. There are no whirring and grinding gears with their numerous levers to confuse. There is not that almost terrifying uncertain throb and whirr of the powerful combustion engine. There is no water-circulating system to get out of order - no dangerous and evil-smelling gasoline and no noise.” Electricity had to be the future, he wrote, since in time ”all the oil would be pumped out of the ground.” Electricity-powered cars would also be less expensive to produce, bringing the price to the consumer down.The problems the Edison lab faced with batteries for electric cars were that the lead-acid batteries that that existed then were too heavy, and the acid corroded the lead inside the battery, shortening its useful life. The Edison team would look for a way to make batteries lighter, more reliable, and at least three times long-lasting, so that they could become the basis of a successful electric car. Their idea was to use alkaline electrolytes, and make a nickel-iron based battery. Such a battery would use an electrolyte of potassium or sodium hydroxide and contain no lead or other heavy metals. It would therefore be without risk of acid spills, and its construction and disposal would be largely without significant environmental damage. The battery chemistry in a nickel-iron battery, during both charging and discharging, acts to transfer oxygen from one electrode to the other. Resins form a film on the electrode surface, retarding corrosion. The battery Edison ultimately manufactured was so efficient that it lasted for decades.He established the Edison Chemical Works in 1905 to manufacture the iron and nickel compounds to be used by the Edison Storage Battery Co. (ESBCo). Around 1916 Chemical Works became a division of ESBCo, with Edison's brother-in-law John V. Miller continuing as manager and Charles F. Hunter serving as superintendent. William J. O'Dair was their product engineer. It took over a decade to develop a commercially viable iron-nickel battery, and by that time automobiles powered by internal combustion engines had become dominant. Had their battery been available sooner, the economic, political, and environmental history of the world might look very different. Though no longer primarily focused on cars, their battery work carried on for decades, and they made constant improvements. Edison developed an extensive market for his battery in a variety of industrial uses, and it was the most successful product of his later life.Edison used resins not only for his batteries, but for his phonograph records. He was by far the largest consumer of resins in the country, and was always looking for new, more efficient and less expensive methods of producing it. Here we find him switching to a new apparatus, but wanting to make sure the old one was ready to produce if the new one was down. He also wanted to be sure any excess produced would be stored for later use.Typed letter signed, The Laboratory, Orange, NJ, January 20, 1927, to superintendent Hunter. “The apparatus used with old method of making resin to be put in good condition ready to operate should any emergency occur. The new process without pressure to be operated to make resin for current use and as great excesses of resin as practical, storing the excess operated by Hand under Hunter.” An extremely uncommon full letter of Edison directly relating to his research and production, one of a very few we have ever had.Edison Storage continued to manufacture batteries until 1972, and in 1975 it was sold to Exide, then one of the world's largest producers and distributors of batteries. After the 1975 sale, the head of Exide discovered a small file of Edison’s papers, and retained them. We acquired the file directly from his family, and this letter has never been previously offered for sale.

Poems of the "Old South by POETRY

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Title: Poems of the "Old South
Author: POETRY
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: Boston: Old South Fair Committee, 1879. POETRY. The rare deluxe autograph edition, published two years after the trade edition. Signed or inscribed by each of the six poets. Small octavo (7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 180 x 147 mm). [2], 35, [1, blank] pp. With a sheet signed by each of the authors inserted to face the beginning of their respective poem. With frontispiece, historiated initials and engraved vignettes throughout. Publisher's original red-brown cloth binding bound in at the back. Beautifully bound by Grabau in full nineteenth-century brown morocco. Boards stamped in gilt with green and red morocco floral onlay. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt with red and green morocco onlay. Gilt board edges. Gilt dentelles. Tan watered silk endpapers. Top edge gilt. With previous owner's armorial bookplate on front free endpaper, and inscription in old ink on front fly-leaf. Housed in a brown cloth slipcase. An about fine copy. Provenance: The bookplate in this copy is or Roy Arther Hunt. The inscription on the facing page reads "To Roy Arthur Hunt, a descendant of Reverend Thomas Thacher the first Pastor of the Old South Church. Born in England, May 1, 1620. Installed as Pastor of Old South, February 16, 1670. Died in Boston, October 15, 1678." "The Old South Meeting House, also known as the Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), was built in 1729 as a Puritan meeting house. It was an assembly spot for prominent meetings from colonial times through the American revolution. The building was restored after the revolution and remained an active church until 1872. It was saved from demolition in 1877 when it was established as a museum. A volume was published to help raise funds for the preservation entitled, Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: William F. Gill & Co., 1877). It was published again in 1879 by the Old South Fair Committee. Both published versions include a note on verso of the title page: 'Published for the benefit of the Old South preservation fund.'" (Harvard, Houghton Library). It is estimated that less than 100 copies of this edition were produced, and has been considered the rarest limited signed edition of nineteenth century American literature. "The book was first published in 1877 and features works that reflect the culture, history, and traditions of the American South during the antebellum period. The poems in this collection cover a wide range of themes, including love, nature, patriotism, slavery, and the Civil War." (Amazon). BAL 9134. HBS 69242. $4,500.

THE ESTHETIC BASIS OF GREEK ART OF THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIS B. C. by Carpenter, Rhys. (Bryn Mawr College)

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Title: THE ESTHETIC BASIS OF GREEK ART OF THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIS B. C.
Author: Carpenter, Rhys. (Bryn Mawr College)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bryn Mawr PA/ NY: Bryn Mawr College/ Longmans, Green, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First volume in the Bryn Mawr Notes and Monographs series. Small 8vo, "pocket size', tan linen, stamped red titles, rounded corners, stained red all around, viii, 263. Inscribed by Carpenter, Professro of Classical Archeology, on the ffe: "For one who really cares to read it. Rhys Carpenter

MISSOURI CANARY by Stong, Phil ( story by). Wiese, Kurt (pictures by)

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Title: MISSOURI CANARY
Author: Stong, Phil ( story by). Wiese, Kurt (pictures by)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: NY: Dodd, Mead, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. A solid first edition copy, modestly worn on bottom edge in pictorial unclipped dustjacket matching book covers that is worn around all edges with some shallow edge loss here and there. Clean internals, no names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.

The Book: Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time by BOUCHOT, Henri; H. Grevel (editor)

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Title: The Book: Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time
Author: BOUCHOT, Henri; H. Grevel (editor)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Some foxing at beginning and end, light rubbing to binding, else a nearly fine copy
Description: London: Grevel, 1890. First of this expanded version. Hardbound. Some foxing at beginning and end, light rubbing to binding, else a nearly fine copy. 4to. 383 pages, including 172 illustrations. Brown blind-tooled leather, morocco spine labels.

The New English Bible with Apocyrpha by Delegates of the Oxford University Press

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Title: The New English Bible with Apocyrpha
Author: Delegates of the Oxford University Press
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Red buckram, bumped at the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, inscription inside the front board, a few instances of pencil marginalia. The first edition to feature The Old Testament and Apocrypha translated according to the task established by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

A Generous Man by Price, Reynolds

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Title: A Generous Man
Author: Price, Reynolds
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Price on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly toned and soiled, a crease at the front flap. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a spotted red topstain, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Price's novel of Milo Mustian and his passing into manhood in rural North Carolina.

Tarass Boulba Drame Musical en cinq actes ... d'après Gogol par Louis de Gramont ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score] by SAMUEL-ROUSSEAU, Marcel 1882-1955

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Title: Tarass Boulba Drame Musical en cinq actes ... d'après Gogol par Louis de Gramont ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: SAMUEL-ROUSSEAU, Marcel 1882-1955
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Choudens [PN A. C. 14889], 1919. Large octavo. Original publisher's light brown wrappers. 1f. (decorative title), 1f. (dedication), 1f. (cast list), 1f. (notes on first performance and named cast list), 1f. (recto index, verso notes), 267, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Kousnezoff, Brohly, Delécluse, Mauroy, Béryl, Huchet, Gien, Bourbon, Friant, Durand, Carbelly, Palier, Berkin, Arnna, Mille, Eyraud, Oger, Hazarty, Rossel, Ferney, and Chauvet. Wrappers slightly worn; head and tail of spine slightly chipped and torn; small circular handstamp to upper wrapper. Some signatures split or partially split. Second version.

Contemporary Science Fiction Authors by Reginald, R.

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Title: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors
Author: Reginald, R.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780405063329
Condition: Near Fine/Fine
Description: New York: The Arno press, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 368pp. Sharp Arno Press reprint, originally published in 1970 by Unicorn & Son of Los Angeles. Loaded with information on science fiction authors and their works. Bound in purple cloth with lettering and illustration in white. Square, tight and clean throughout with no toning or foxing. A touch of softness to spine ends but little if any wear. No dust-jacket as issued. A pretty collectable copy of an uncommon title.

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