Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Lodging for the Night. Roycrofters, 1902.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red suede leather slightly loose
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plate. Wraps split at spine and detached from block. Bookplate inside front cover. This is a leather-bound printing of Stevenson's story. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 81).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. THE ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1902.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: MINOR TEAR TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LIMP SUEDE LLEATHER SPINE. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON COVER. DATE PUBLISHED: 1902 EDITION: 44
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Full suede leather with yawped edges. Fading and minor soiling to spine. Chipping loss to head of spine and rear corner. Front wrap starting.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: light shelf wear, personal bookplate to second blank page. In red suede with gilt lettering. Suede shows some aging and darkening. Salmon moiré endpapers, yapped edges, 45 pages with colophon. First printing. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.
Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A LODGING FRORTHE NIGHT. THE ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1902.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SLIGHTLY FADED SPINE. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON COVER. DATE PUBLISHED: 1902 EDITION: 44
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Lodging for the Night. Roycrofters, 1902.
Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a very good clean copy in original soft leather binding.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.69 + shipping
Description: Clean pages, tight binding, suede covers clean with wrinkle to edge Clean pages, tight binding, sued
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plate. Minor shelf wear. Block has come unglued from wraps. This is a leather-bound printing of Stevenson's story. Handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 81).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Lodging for the Night. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1902.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First and only Roycroft issue. 7 7/8 x 5 1/8. 44pp. Printed in black on Roycroft wove with the Seahorse watermark. OB-071-02 1902 V1: Full suede; gilt title in rectangular surround. This copy faded overall but cover is intact and not too dry. Small blemish on front cover with some loss near the tail of the spine. Textblock is clear and bright with no embellishments in this volume. Condition is overall very good.
Seller: Librariana Fine Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A lodging for the night. Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1902.
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. [6], 44, [2]; frontis portrait, title within a decorative border, original limp reverse calf lettered in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., yapp edges, pink moire pastedowns; near fine.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. 44, photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, full limp suade with yapp edges, stamped cover panel with gilt lettering, yellow moire doublures, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed on Roycroft watermarked paper. Previous owner's signature to front blank, yapp edges a little curled but no tears, etc., otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Lodging for the Night. The Roycrofters, East Aurora NY, 1902.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan Soft Leather Binding w/gilt lettering on cover, frontis sketch of Stevenson, 44 pgs. Binding Firm, Cover has small circle stain near title, fep missing, Sketch of Stevenson w/tissue guard frontis, satin endpapers. Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships - Commonly Called Trouble. Antiquarian/Poetry Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Vintage BookStore, Jim Thorpe, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soft suede cover shows wear at edges and light soiling and discoloration. Binding is slightly weak. Otherwise fine. ; Includes "Inter Office Memo" dated 12-10-1957 with a typed remeniscence of this and other Roycrofter titles by Dr Karl (Menninger). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Oddfellow's Fine Books and Collectables, Topeka, KS, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Lodging for the Night. The Roycrofters - East Aurora, NY, 1902.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Suede on boards with gilt titling to center front title box. Suede is chipped and rubbed at edges and suede to spine is missing. Top edge gilt. Book is still tight and square and other boards is in Very Good condition including the Roycrofters hand-made heavy paper. Photogravure portrait of Stevenson in front with tissue guard.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. 44 pages. Brown suede, yapp edges, upper edge gilded, frontispiece. Ex-libris of a previous owner on endpaper. Well printed on thick paper. Nice copy, typical of the Roycrofters print shop.
Seller: Guy de Grosbois, Montréal, QC, Canada
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Lodging for the Night. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1902.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in full suede soft cloth with title and author in gilt on cover and satin moire front and back interior covers. Printed on Roycroft hand-made paper. Frontispiece is a photogravure portrait of Stevenson with tissue guard. Binding has come loose from spine with some tears along spine in need of repair otherwise interior tight and clean. 44 pgs.
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. Roycrofters, East Aurora, New York, 1902.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: Being a tale concerning one of life's lesser hardships - commonly called trouble. 44 pp. Brown suede covers with gilt titles. Small stains all over, small chips and wear along the edges. GOOD.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Marbled boards and endpapers. Small armorial book-plate front pastedown. Spine extremities a bit frayed but intact. Small chip missing from top of front cover marbled paper. Front cover professionally reattached, hinge strengthened. Hand-colored border on title-page and chapter heads. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard. This special edition was printed on Japan Vellum and illuminated by hand. This is copy #23/100. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER ELBERT HUBBARD AND THE COLORIST JOSEPHINE DWYER with the printing mark of Roycrofters hand-drawn . Crisp and clean internally. Size: Thin Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$648.92 + shipping
Description: A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, ROYCROFTERS, 1902, first edition, light wear to the upper fore edge corner tips, spine tanned, else a vg+ or better copy bound in the publishers decorated 3/4 green morocco leather and marbled boards with marbled end-papers and t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt. 1/100 copies on Japan paper and SIGNED by publisher Elbert Hubbard and artist Hattier(?) Robarge.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$690.00 + shipping
Description: Frontis portrait of author; beautifully colored title boarder and chapter heads, 8 x 5.5", 3/4 leather; marbled boards, teg, covers a bit worn, extremities fraying, leather at the top of front cover stained, hinges loose, contents nice. LIMITED TO 100 "ILLUMINATED BY HAND" NUMBERED COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD AND THE ILLUMINATOR MINNIE TISDALE who has drawn the Roycroft symbol below her signature.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$747.50 + shipping
Description: Frontis portrait of author, 8 x 5.25", 3/4 leather; marbled boards, teg, 44pp, covers lightly worn, extremities fraying, spine sunned, hinges a little loose, else a nice, clean copy. LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES, PRINTED ON JAPAN VELLUM, ILLUMINATED BY HAND, SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBART AND ILLUMINATOR EMMA JOHNSON, who adds Roycroft symbol below her signature.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$990.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1902 Hardcover Very Good/No Dust Jacket Signed by Elbert Hubbard & Emma Johnson Roycrofters, Pub, East Aurora, NY, 1902; Limited Edition on Japan Vellum, printed and illumined by hand 100 copies, this is #61; Signed by Elbert Hubbard; Illumined and signed by Emma Johnson; bound in green, 3/4 morocco leather and marbled paper over ha
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, 44pp., illustrated. A fine, fresh, lovely copy in the publisher's ¾ light brown morocco and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, silk ribbon, gilt spine, and raised bands. In a contemporary plain straight-grained yellow cloth dust jacket and green cloth slipcase. It's unclear whether these were executed by Roycroft or were done slightly later by someone else. But in any event, they have very nicely preserved the book. This is number 16 of 100 limited copies printed on Japan Vellum and "illumined" [that-is, hand-illuminated] by one of the workers at the Roycroft Shop. In this case, the artist was Elsie Whitney, who has signed her name on the limitation page, where of course Elbert Hubbard signed his name, as well. A positively charming Roycroft volume, much more refined than their more pedestrian publications. An uncommon book, genuinely scarce in this condition.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.