[EASTMAN, GEORGE]; ACKERMAN, CARL W. | George Eastman. With an Introduction by Edwin R.A. Seligman. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930

[EASTMAN, GEORGE]; ACKERMAN, CARL W.  

George Eastman. With an Introduction by Edwin R.A. Seligman. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930

8vo. Photographic plates, extra-illustrated with a few letters by colleagues who were unable to sign the actual book (see below). Publisher's green cloth; worn.

First edition, inscribed by Eastman on front free end-paper: "To an esteemed associate Nils Bouveng, George Eastman." Bouveng was the CEO of Hasselblad Fotografiska and helped to found the Eastman Institute in Stockholm. The volume is also signed by the author on the title-page, inscribed by Seligman at end of introduction, and signed throughout by numerous executives and employees of the Eastman Kodak Company, including George H. Clark, Henry H. Tozier, Lewis B. Jones, Frank W. Lovejoy, Alice K. Whitney Hutchison, William G. Stuber, J. J. Rouse, Kenneth Mees, Ernest Edgar Blake, and William F. Folmer.