Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green flexible leather covers have spots to the front, fading to the spine and edges. Front cover is starting to separate from the pages along the inner edge.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: East Aurora, N.Y.,: Roycrofters, 1901. First Edition. [8], 59-79, [7] pp. Missing the issued portrait. Original brown paper wrap printed in black and red with overhanging edges (yapp). Advertisements inside the front cover for the Little Journeys series of 1901 which included 12 titles. Title page ornately decorated in black; ornate initials throughout "designed by Samuel Warner. Colophon, promotional blurbs for Chase & Piano Player; the Illumed editions of Little Journeys; Pears' Soap and the announcement of the new title "A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things. The endpages are heavily toned; edges unevenly opened with some short tears (one remains unopened); the cover edges are worn and creased. ; 8vo
Seller: E Ridge Fine Books, Lake Elsinore, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 166 pages : portrait. Our copy is in paper-covered flexible boards, rather than the suede or leather in which this book is more often found. Publisher's paper-covered boards age-toned, darkened at edges, corners rounded, small chips to paper labels at front panel and at spine, a small dent to spine; inner hinges good, previous owner's signature at front free endpaper, contents age-toned but unmarked. 380 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, Elbert. A MESSAGE TO GARCIA and Thirteen Other Things. Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1901.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, 166pp., green suede with yapp edges only a bit frayed, red ribbon, satin endpapers Portrait frontispiece. This is Hubbard's phenomenally successful essay yoked to some of his other stuff. [ McKenna 75 - not citing this binding ].
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Fra Elbertus. A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1901.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some of the pages in the rear are uncut. Others have been roughly separated and have tearing at the top edge. Some have been repaired with acid-free document tape. The book is solid and tight. The paper covered covers are lightly scuffed. The spine is a soft leather and has a torn spot ( 1.5" x .5" ) on the side of the spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT MUSICIANS. FRANZ LISZT. Elbert Hubbard. Roycrofters, East Aurora. 1901 217/940 Limited edition Signed Copy. 38pp Illustrated Hardback Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the USA. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century. The name Roycroft was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in London from about 1650-1690. And beyond this, the word roycroft had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard, meaning King's Craft. In guilds of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King. The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk Cassidorius, a 13th century bookbinder and illuminator. Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of William Morris on a visit to England. He was unable to find a publisher for his book Little Journeys, so inspired by Morris's Kelmscott Press, decided to set up his own private press to print the book himself, founding Roycroft Press. His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from John Ruskin formed the Roycroft "creed":"A belief in working with the head, hand and heart and mixing enough play with the work so that every task is pleasurable and makes for health and happiness". The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay A Message to Garcia. In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted suffragette Alice Moore Hubbard, died in the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline. This copy, unlike the open edition, is bound in tan suede yapp binding with two blind stamped panels and gilt titling to the front. The frontis complete with tissue guard is a sketch of the composer Franz Liszt believed to be the work of Samuel Warner. The title page and five vignettes throughout the book have been hand coloured. The limitation page has been signed and numbered 217/940 by Elbert Hubbard. The stock is printed on Roycrofts hand made paper. A fine copy of a very important book. Ref H3 Size: 38pp
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Hubbard, Elbert. A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things. ROYCROFTERS, NY, 1901.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: General wear, worn extremities, age toned pages.small writing on FEP from PO. DATE PUBLISHED: 1901 EDITION: 166
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things. ROYCROFTERS, NY, 1901.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: #440/450, "Elbert Hubbard" small inscription states, "This book contains sheets of my oroginal manuscript, Fre Elbertus, Oct. 5th 1901." General wear, worn extremities, age toned pages, chipped/small tears along fore edge of cover, small bookplate on front end paper, previous owners name and date on front endpaper. DATE PUBLISHED: 1901 EDITION: LIMITED 166
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 308 pages. 206 x 143 x 44 mm. Most pages are untrimmed on all sides. Some pages are also uncut. All 12 works in this series are here, and each has its own title page and frontis portrait for each musician. The first work here, of Richard Wagner, has a hand colored title page. Original paper label on front board. Re-backed. Printed on very high quality, thick, rag, cotton, paper. Continuous pagination for six works, then again for the other six. 1-18, to 54, to 84, to 110, to 136 to page 158; Page 1-32, to 58, to 80, to 102, to 124, to page 150. The Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the USA. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century. The name Roycroft was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in London from about 1650-1690. And beyond this, the word Roycroft had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard, meaning King's Craft. In guilds of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King. The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk Cassidorius, a 13th century bookbinder and illuminator. Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of William Morris on a visit to England. He was unable to find a publisher for his book Little Journeys, so inspired by Morris's Kelmscott Press, decided to set up his own private press to print the book himself, founding Roycroft Press. His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from John Ruskin formed the Roycroft creed: "A belief in working with the head, hand and heart and mixing enough play with the work so that every task is pleasurable and makes for health and happiness". The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay A Message to Garcia. In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted suffragette Alice Moore Hubbard, died in the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline.
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. A Message To Garcia And Thirteen Other Things. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1901.
Price: US$1695.00 + shipping
Description: (8), iv, (9)-166, (3) pages. 22x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 50 on Japan vellum signed by Hubbard and the illuminator, Lily Ess. Portrait frontispiece of Elbert Hubbard. Raised bands, spine with gilt arabesques in floral motifs lettered in gilt. Small paper title label at bottom of clamshell box. Initial letters and upper page designs in myriad colors by Lilly Ess. MCKENNA 70. Bright, very fresh copy. Three quarter red morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine in near fine publisher original fleece-lined clamshell box
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.