n.p. By the authors, (1937). First edition - A brief biographical sketch of this noted American scientist, compiled by his two surviving children, Anna Franklin Barnett and John Curtis , as a memorial. Among other things, Franklin was a professor of organic chemistry at Stanford University for many years, received the Nichols and Willard Gibbs Awardsm and served as a president of the American Chemical Society. Frontispiece portrait with a tissue guard. Includes a list of papers by E.C.F and co-workers. Unpaginated (24 pp)

Boston: Little Brown, 1928. Hardcover first edition - From the preface: "The thread which binds [this book] together is the reiterated emphasis upon the debt which Industry owes to Chemistry and the necessity of utlizing the creative power of research if we are to avoid its alternative, which is retrogression." Published just before the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, this in an interesting look at the American economy at the time. Includes comments on immigration and a long chapter on future fuel. Index. 287 pp.