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INSCRIBED KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK. Birth Stones. Charts. 12mo, 3/4 gilt-lettered blue morocco, spine ends and tips rubbed. Twenty-eighth edition.
INSCRIBED KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK. Birth Stones. Charts. 12mo, 3/4 gilt-lettered blue morocco, spine ends and tips rubbed. Twenty-eighth edition. New York: Tiffany and Co., (1927)
- Notes: inscribed "for mrs. thomas a. edison, jr. with the best wishes of the author. George Kunz. 31 Jan 1931." Mrs. T. A. Edison, Jr. was Beatrice Heyzer. Her husband, the Edison's oldest son, was a constant disappointment to his father. He tried his hand but regularly failed at several inventions and ventures such as mushroom farming and quack medicines. After trying to capitalize on the family name with dubious inventions and his phony tonics, Thomas Sr. asked him to change his name (he used Thomas Willard for a time). Edison offered this stinging remark to a friend: "I never could get him to go to school or work in the laboratory. He is absolutely illiterate scientifically and otherwise." Ouch.
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