Search Results: thomas alva edison an american myth by wachhorst wyn

Cambridge, MA. MIT Press (c1981) HARDCOVER. VG/Good+ dj. (top edge foxed, small back cover edge abrasion, previous owners embossed blind stamp on endpapers else covers & text clean/tight/bright. jacket complete, lightly soiled, edge tears taped on reverse) 8vo. Numerous photographs & tables. Includes Appendix, Notes, Edison Literature Citation References, Bibliography, & Index.

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Links the mythology of Edison as a cultural hero to American cultural themes and values. 328 pages, 1" tear at DJ top rear (in mylar sleeve).; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1982. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0262231085 Book traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues: hard work, perserverance, the gospel of technological progress, the mythology of the self-made man, individualism, optimism, practically mingled with idealism. 328pp.

Publisher's brown cloth with white spine lettering, octavo, pp. ix, 328. Illustrated. Illustrated dust jacket a little weary from pre-mylar days, with light chipping at some extremities, thus Good only. Jacket now ensconced in a new sheet of archival Brodart.

Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. NF. 1981. 1st Printing. Hardcover. First printing. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some dust spotting to the edges of the book's upper page block. The dust jacket has light wear along its upper edges. .

Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price;; 328 clean, unmarked pages/index. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by B/W Illus. 12 vo ..

MIT Press:, 1981. This book is the second printing from 1982, 328 pages, illustrated. This book is a gold mine, the author has compiled an unusually detailed survey of one great American's outsize public image. Through a diverting parade of anecdotes and old interviews, we discover not the man, but his myth: the hayseed hero of a nation on the move." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge.: The MIT Press., 1981.. First edition. . Hardcover. . Fine copy in fine (small, closed tear top edge) dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. 328pp/illus. Traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues. DJ has several small tears at top. Text clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The MIT Press, 1983-03-29. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge.: The MIT Press., 1981.. First edition. . Hardcover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.