Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Suede leather cover with wear to spine ends. 141 pages. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.
Seller: Queen City Books, Lynchburg, OH, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. A Christma Carol. The Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, New York, 1902.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Description: Cover has chips, fragile spine loose and cracked, INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT.
Seller: Halper's Books, Tel Aviv, Israel
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1902, Roycroft. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 141 pp., bound in green suede spine with charcoal paper boards. Title label on spine is completely worn off; spine is sunned. Tips, edges rubbed, covers faded. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, most pages unopened. Text is unmarked and binding is solid.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Flexible boards covered in scarlet suede with title box on front and gilt titling in box. Inside of covers red silk moire. Edges of suede worn with some tattering, particularly to head of spine. Sewn binding tight and book is free of other major flaws or markings other than the aforementioned yapping to edges of suede. According to McKenna 75 there were variations in the binding "including 3/4 leather, full vellum with cloth ties, and paper over boards with suede spine and corners." This one is full scarlet suede. Colophon at end reads: "Title page, headbands and tailpieces by Samuel Warner. Compositor Charles Rosen, Pressman Otto Franz. Copy.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Softcover, bound in suede with yapped edges. The yapped portion of the suede chipped, head of the spine repaired. Text evenly toned.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Roycrofters printing, limp brown leather case binding with stiff pastedowns, the binding is weakened with a few light cracks starting throughout, and the book also has light creasing with short tears to the leather around the edges and corners, sunning to the spine and edges, creasing to the upper corner of the text block with some wear to the page edges, and a previous owner's plate to the front pastedown leaving a toned shadow on the first free end page. Overall, this is a solid, Good copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$142.75 + shipping
Description: Original-Wildledereinband mit überlappendem Deckelbezug (wohl als Staubschutz des Buchschnitts) und Seidenmoiré-Spiegeln und Kopfgoldschnitt, 22 x 14,5 cm, 141 S.; Buchschmuck von Samuel Warner. Marginale Gebrauchsspuren, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar dieser ungewöhnlich gebundenen Ausgabe.
Seller: Versandantiquariat Dr. Peter Rudolf, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: East Aurora: The Roycroft Shop, 1902. Regular Edition. 8.75 x 5 7/8 in. [4],[1]-141,[1]pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens. Publisher's ¾ vellum and wood-veneer, top edges gilt, title in gilt with gilt frame on spine. Fine condition, boards slightly bowed. Text including title page printed in red and black. Headbands and tail-pieces designed by Samuel Warner. McKenna 75 calls this the "Regular Edition", and mentions that there were variations in the binding including "3/4 leather", full vellum with cloth ties, and paper over boards with suede spine and corners. No mention is made of wood veneer.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol.. East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop., 1902.
Price: US$318.51 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Half vellum, 9 inches tall. Almost certainly a publisher's binding of half vellum with a gilt title within a cartouche and gilt top edge. A thin wooden veneer is on the boards. Portrait. The vellum is clean but a little creased and marked.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1146.64 + shipping
Description: First Roycroft Press edition, signed limited issue, number 4 of 100 copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard (Founder of the Roycroft Artisan Community) to the limitation page. A beautiful limited edition on Japanese vellum. Book is three quarter bound in fine blue leather, with a gilt foliate design and titles to the spine. Cream boards. A touch of rubbing to the edges of the spine only. Very presentable. There is the bookplate of Isaac H. Blanchard to the inside front board. Blanchard was the owner of Blanchard Press in New York. He was also well known as a philanthropist, and supporter of workers, having written the first Collective Bargaining Contract in the city, and for his support of Apprentices. Engraved portrait of Dickens as a frontis, with tissue guard. Decorated title page matching the foliate design on the spine. The typography of the book is lovely, with head- and tailpieces by Samuel Warner. Hubbard had travelled to England and met William Morris in 1892. On his return, he founded the Roycroft community, which promoted the Arts and Crafts style and techniques. [vi], 142 pages. 230 by 160mm (9 by 6¼ inches). . Première édition de Roycroft Press, édition limitée signée, numéro 4 sur 100 exemplaires. Signé par Elbert Hubbard (fondateur de la Roycroft Artisan Community) sur la page de limitation. Une belle édition limitée sur vélin japonais. Le livre est relié aux trois quarts en cuir bleu fin, avec un motif de feuillage et des titres dorés au dos. Les planches sont de couleur crème. Un peu de frottement sur les bords du dos seulement. Très présentable. L'ex-libris d'Isaac H. Blanchard se trouve à l'intérieur de la première planche. Blanchard était le propriétaire de Blanchard Press à New York. Il était également bien connu en tant que philanthrope et défenseur des travailleurs, ayant rédigé le premier contrat de négociation collective dans la ville, et pour son soutien aux apprentis. Portrait gravé de Dickens en frontispice, avec protège-tissu. La page de titre est ornée d'un décor assorti au motif foliacé du dos de l'ouvrage. La typographie de l'ouvrage est ravissante, avec des têtes et des queues de Samuel Warner. Hubbard avait voyagé en Angleterre et rencontré William Morris en 1892. À son retour, il fonda la communauté Roycroft, qui promouvait le style et les techniques Arts and Crafts. [vi], 142 pages. 230 x 160 mm
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Price: US$1592.55 + shipping
Description: First Roycroft Press edition, signed limited issue, number 76 of 100 copies and signed by Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft artisan community (or by one of the Roycrofters whom he had trained to imitate his signature). The limited edition was printed on Japanese vellum, and a standard edition was released simultaneously on paper. Upon travelling to England in 1892 and meeting William Morris, Hubbard became enamoured of the arts and crafts movement and the productions of the Kelmscott Press. On his return to America, he started the Roycroft Press. His work became well-known and collected a community of craftspeople in Aurora. These were skilled metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders, and attracted the patronage of Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt and Queen Victoria. McKenna 75. Octavo. Original brown half morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of Dickens (with tissue guard), title page printed in red & black within a broad typographic border, decorative head- and tailpieces by Samuel Warner. Patch of skinning to front fore-corner. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom