Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G, no DJ. First Edition thus. Covers significantly rubbed, general wear to boards, edges, spine, and corners, age tanned interior, else nice copy. Hinges loosening but holding solid.
Seller: Nick of All Trades, Penn Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: first edition, inscribed by Elbert Hubbard at the front free endpaper To Mrs. Rice in loving token of her Little Journey to East Aurora, December 1902 ; quarto, [iv], 120, [1] pp., printed in red and black with a pictorial title, portrait frontis., 8 leaves with 20 tipped illustrations after photographs; original boards & paper covered backstrip, worn, spine strengthened with clear tape, endpapers foxed, however internally clean. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper vellum spine over green boards/gilt. Inscription to ffep. Minor dampstain to bottom corner, slightly bumped bottom edge, points frayed. 21 photos, 20 tipped in. Tissued frontis. Illustrated with photos of the Roycroft's community and craftsmen. Acetate DJ. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 120 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: VERY WORN EXTERIORS WITH TEARS TO THE TOP OF THE SUEDE LEATHER SPINE.HINGES ARE CRACKED LEAVING THE WEBBING VISIBLE. PAGES ARE AGE-TONED. BOOKSTORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. PHOTOS INSIDE. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON COVER AND SPINE. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. DATE PUBLISHED: 1902 EDITION: 120
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 120 pages. Text in conscious 'old world' style, double-inverted columns surround epigrammatical texts in larger type. A very attractive and unusual Roycroft volume with nice period photographs of the grounds and operations of the Roycrofters at a peak period of productivity and creativity. Red suede over black boards, spine and front cover stamped in gilt (chipping to top of spine; some darkening and wear to binding; 2 blindstamps). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (viii), 120, (2) pages. First edition (McKenna 76). Ornaments designed by Richard Kruger, presswork by Otto Franz, compsition by Charles Rosen. Frontispiece portrait of Hubbard. Tipped in illustrations. Covers and spine soiled, rubbed, and scuffed. paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.50 + shipping
Description: 1902. Hardcover. Quarter suede over paper covered baords, quarto, 120 pp. Plate photographs tipped in. Suede is badly worn especially at head and tail of spine where it is tattered. Edge-wear to cloth. Hinges have been repaired with glue. Working copy only with pages in tact except for one page is torn. Sold w.a.f.
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PAGES ARE AGE-TONED. BOOKSTORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. VELLUM SPINE. PHOTOS INSIDE. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON COVER AND SPINE. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. DATE PUBLISHED: 1902 EDITION: 120
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated title within red ornamental border; running title and initials in red, printed in two columns, a third column inset in most pages. All the illustrations (the Blacksmith, a Book Binder, Type-Setting, etc) except frontispiece portrait of Elbert Hubbard are photographic reproductions mounted on grey inserted leaves. Grey paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on the front, white parchment back, gilt. Bottom edge a bit rubbed. A very good copy. Printed by the Roycrofters at their shop in East Aurora, New York, U.S.A. Presswork finished in October, nineteen hundred two. The title page after the Decretales of St. Gregory as done by Joanis Petit at Venice in fifteen hundred and twenty-nine. The ornaments designed by Richard Druger, presswork by Otto Franz, and composition by Charles Rosen
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large quarto. Covers edgeworn. Small bookplate inside front cover. A few pages foxed.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: RUBBED SPINE. FRONT HINGES AR ECRACKED LEAVING THE WEBBING VISIBLE. PAGES ARE AGE-TONED. BOOKSTORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. PHOTOS INSIDE. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON COVER AND SPINE. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. DATE PUBLISHED: 1902 EDITION: 120
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover. McKenna # 76. 11'' x 8 3/4''. 120pp. Printed on Boxmoor and bound in paper over boards with paper vellum spine. Ornaments were designed by Richard Kruger, press work by Otto Franz and composition by Charles Rosen. General light wear corners lightly rubbed.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover. McKenna # 76. 11'' x 8 3/4''. 120pp. Printed on Boxmoor and bound in paper over boards with suede spine. Ornaments were designed by Richard Kruger, press work by Otto Franz and composition by Charles Rosen. General light wear corners lightly rubbed, light stain to back boards.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Contemplations. Roycrofters, 1902.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited to 100 copies on Japan Vellum. 1902 This is copy #38, SIGNED by Hubbard. Also SIGNED in pencil on frontispiece by the photographer, H. Schervee. The major, though perhaps repairable flaw with this book is that the front cover is detached. Leather with marbled boards have light wear. Ink gift note on fly leaf, rest of interior is in nice condition, clean, text block secure. A beautifully-produced book.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.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece, and 20 other tipped in photos. 120, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. McKenna 76 Frontispiece, and 20 other tipped in photos. 120, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's half black levant morocco and marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt spine stamping. Marbled endpapers. 4to. 120pp. Copy #20 of 100 copies on Japan vellum signed by Elbert Hubbard. Text printed in red and black. Decorative title page after 1529 design by Joanis Petit, text ornaments by Richard Kruger, gravure frontis photo portrait by H. Schervee. A very good copy with some light rubbing and edgewear to the leather covers and some browning to the front marbled boards. The front hinge is worn at the top and bottom but still very secure. The text is very good with some light soiling to the margins of a few pages. Foreign postage extra on this large book.
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Handome copy of this lavish 1902 collection of musings from the redoubtable American writer and publisher Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), who, tragically, died along with his wife Alice Hubbard in the May 1915 sinking of the Lusitania. Bound in the publisher's 1/4 suede over light-gray boards, with gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Light spotting at the rear panel, a touch of very light soiling to the suede, otherwise clean as could be and, internally, free of any writing or markings of any kind. Quarto, deckled fore and bottom-edges. Beautifully printed throughout; "the ornaments designed by Richard Kruger, pressowrk by Otto Franz and composition by Charles Rosen"
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 10 of 100 copies printed on Japon vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard and specially bound. Illustrated title within red ornamental border; running title and initials in red, printed in two columns, a third column inset in most pages. All the illustrations (the Blacksmith, a Book Binder, Type-Setting, etc) except frontispiece portrait of Elbert Hubbard are photographic reproductions mounted on grey inserted leaves. Very handsome olive half morocco with marbled paper sides and endpapers, spine titled in gilt and very ornately decorated in gilt. Presentation inscription, dated 1931, otherwise a fine copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. (10),120,(2)pp. Finely bound by the Roycrofters in half morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in red and black throughout. One of 100 signed numbered copies printed on Japan Vellum. Signed by Hubbard on the limitation page. Only a trace of wear at the corners and edges; a few spots on the upper board else a very good copy.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.