Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., front cover missing. Front endpaper foxed. Frontis. missing. Prof. decorated, letterpress, some pp. uncut, pp. 51-72.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering, lines, dk. red colophon. No frontis. Prof. decorations. Pp. 85-104 plus 1-5 promos. and ads. Some pp. have light damp stains, not affecting contents.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Brown wrapps. w. black lettering, red colophon. Sewn binding. Cover split at hinges. Letterpress. Illus. Pp. 57-84pp., dampstained.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering, lines, dk. red colophon. Blank free endpapers discolored. No frontis. Prof. decoratoins. Pp. 97- 118, letterpress on heavy paper plus ads.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Description: A tight decent copy covers show light wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Jeff Stark, Barstow, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering, dk. red. colophon, wear to outer front edge, spine split 2" lower edge. Tissue overlay over t.p. Pp. 105-132, letterpress on heavy paper, some uncut, pen marks on p. 121 bleeding through to p. 122.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering, dk. red colophon, deckled edges. Blank free endpapers darkened. No frontis portrait. Prof. decorations. Pp. 119-144pp.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leather covers over paper. Spine and edges of covers are browned. Later owner information written on front blank.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. VII, No. 6, December 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Benjamin Disraeli, includes frontis illustration of Disraeli.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. VII, No. 1, July 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Thomas Macaulay, the noted English author.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor wear/marks. Vol. VII, No. 3, September 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Joseph Addision, the noted English author. Includes frontis illustration of Addison.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. VII, No. 4, October 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Robert Southey, the noted English author.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No Edition Or Printing Stated. Olive Oversized Tied Wrap With Black And Red Lettering Within Black Borders Front And Back. Plate Featuring Coleridge Laid In. The Text Appears To Be Free Of Notation. The Cover Is Worn And Has Small Chips And Tears. Damp Stain Near The Lower Edge And Spine. Signature Near The Lower Back Edge.
Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor edgewear. Vol. VI, No. 5, May 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of John Milton, the noted English author.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor edgewear. Vol. VII, No. 5, November 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of S. T. Coleridge, the noted English author.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scuff marks on rear cover. Vol. VI, No. 6, June 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Samuel Johnson, the noted English author. Includes frontis illustration of Johnson.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grey sewn wrapps., black lettering w. grey on green device, edges chipped, detached at hinge. Illus. Pp. 25-50, letterpress, pp. uncut.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering, lines, dk. red colophon. Edges chipped. Split at hinge. No frontis. Pp. 1-26, letterpress on heavy paper.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. 8"x6". Sewn wraps. Lacks portrait. Wraps split at hinge. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. From the 1900 English Authors series (Vol. VI). (McKenna 62).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. VI, No. 2, February 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Robert Browning, the noted English author. Minor edgewear, faint stain on front cover.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering dk. red colophon.No frontis. Pp. 133-162, letterpress, prof. decorations, dampstains to margins, contents clean and sound.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in highly decorated dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and blind embossed decorations on the spine and the same with gilt borders on the front board. A 16mo measuring 6 3/4" by 4 1/4" with a presentation inscription in ink and a date of June 13th, 1901 on the first free page. 497 pages followed by several pages of ads by the publisher. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art and photographs.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: . booklet Vol VI January 1900 No 1, covers loose, neat name on title page, no other markings, contents clean, Professional booksellers since 1981
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Br. sewn heavy stock w. black lettering, dk. green colophon, deckled edges. Letterpress. Frontis. Prof. decoratons. pp.73-96 on heavy paper.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 8"x6". Sewn wraps. Portrait laid in as issued. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. From the 1900 English Authors series (Vol. VII). (McKenna 62).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. 8"x6". Sewn wraps. Portrait bound in. Wraps split at hinge. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. From the 1900 English Authors series (Vol. VI). (McKenna 62).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First paperback edition. Grey cloth softcover in Near Fine condition. Black lettering and red imprint on front. Includes portrait insert of Southey in black and white. Decorative imprint on title page. Volume VII October 1900, Pages 85-104. Pages are stiff, crisp and in excellent conditions. Contains a few underlines in red pencil.
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: approx 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, partly uncut, with portrait plate, very good Language: English Weight (g): 70
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 96, [2] pp., original string-tied green paper wrappers, very good. - 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$18.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. original stiff paper wrappers. vi, 51-72, (4) pages. One of a series of publications issued once a month through 1900. Frontispiece, illustration of Tennyson. Title page and initials designed by Samuel Warner. Includes biographical information about the poet, as well as a description of his home. Wrappers bent and lightly soiled. Previous owner's name inscribed on front free endpaper.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.93 + shipping
Description: 8vo, flexible boards, suede cover, 28pp (132-105) + prelims. Good condition. Olive green suede with gilt lettering, upper edges gilt. Yapped edges bumped and creased, tissue guard between frontispiece and illumined title page. Silk ribbon bookmark with worn edge, uncut, foxed endpapers, light foxing. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Numbered of nine hundred and forty copies, this being 273. Signed by Elbert Hubbard below number. Oversize limp leather or suede wraps, gilt decoration on front wrap. Page marker, intact. Covers clean, very lightly sunned at edges. Tiny spots of discoloration on front wrap. Binding sound. Cloth paste downs. Rear cloth paste down with cut; front cloth paste down loosening at edge. Contents clean and unmarked, light toning. A beautifully designed book.
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. Vol. VI, No. 2, February 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Robert Browning, the noted English author. grey paper covers with green ROycrofters emblem and black typr on cove advertisement for railway journey on back coer, covers loose but intact and un marred, clean and unmarked periodical
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Vol. VI, No. 5, May 1900 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of John Milton, the noted English author. grey paper covers with red ROycrofter emblem, black border and type on cover, avertisement for railroad trip on back cover like new condition
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (Volume VI, Number 3; March, 1900). Sewn wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn, endpapers and exposed page edges toned, very good. Accomplished with their traditional charm.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (Volume VI, Number 6; June, 1900). Sewn wrappers. Frontispiece portrait loose, as issued. Wrappers lightly worn, endpapers and exposed page edges toned, very good, lacking the portrait's tissue guard. Accomplished with their traditional charm.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, partly uncut, with portrait plate and tissue-guard, very good Language: English Weight (g): 70
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: approx 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, partly uncut, with portrait plate and tissue-guard, publisher's adverts in the back, very good Language: English Weight (g): 70
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: approx 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, partly uncut, with portrait plate, very good Language: English Weight (g): 70
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: approx 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, with portrait plate, very good Language: English Weight (g): 70
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: approx 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, partly uncut, with portrait plate, very good Language: English Weight (g): 70
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$22.40 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed by Elbert Hubbard with this notation: "Of this edition there were printed and specially illumined by hand but Nine Hundred and Forty Copies, and this book is Number 262." Bound in suede leather wraps, which is well-worn and partially separated from the interior boards. Stray mark on rear boards. A handful of pages have marginal marks. Photographic plate of Joseph Addison protected by tissue at front.
Seller: Alplaus Books, Alplaus, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: full suede cover with gilt lettering, sewing with minor defect, bookblock detached from suede cover, else very good, printed with initials and frontisp Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters. G. P. Putnam's, New York, 1900.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limp green leather covers are yapped (extend beyond the body of the book) and are lightly tanned to brown at edges and at spine. Brown leahter spine and cover labels with gilt lettering, green silk string bookmark. Green silk inside front and back covers. Contains frontis portrait with tissue guard and 23 additional illustrations with tissue guards. Text tight, clean, and unmarked. Top edge gilt, pages have fore and bottom edges rough-cut. Front end paper has note by previous owner describing family association.; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 497 pages
Seller: Peninsula Books, Traverse City, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: approx 28p sewn booklet, grey card cover with Roycrofters arms to front, letterpress printing with ornaments, partly uncut, with portrait plate, very good Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION OF 925 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 159. (viii), pages numbered 51-72, (iv), hand-made paper, hand-illumed title page decoration and initials (five of these), soft covers comprising leather hide with silk interior, gilt on black labels to front cover, some wear to edges and small loss to top and bottom of spine - very pleasing to hold. Size: 8 x 6 Inches
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Price: US$27.98 + shipping
Description: 1st printing. Hand sewn in stiff card covers, paginated 73 to 96, finely printed on hand-made paper. Lacks the photo portrait of Burns which was issued loose from the text, this is otherwise a complete copy CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy (pages slightly tanned) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated edition that includes ads for the Little Journeys series of 1900 in the rear pages.Tightly bound in soft brown suede leather. Stain and slight rubbing to the covers, remains Very Good. The contents include the silk maroon endpapers and numerous sepia toned photographs with tissue guards. A previous owner's name and address are penciled on the front endpaper, otherwise unmarked.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 307 of 940 copies and signed by Hubbard on the limitation page. 12mo. volume bound in limp suede with yapped edges and silk pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait with decorated title page & initials designed by Samuel Warner. Condition: minor wear & slight discoloration to the suede binding; first & last free endpapers tanned; minor toning to deckled fore-edges; else very good+ condition. 84 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: On green suede covers spine cover faded English Authors (book I) vol 6
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: Sq. 8vo, [18] leaves, pp. [6], 119-144, [1]; portrait frontispiece loose, but present; fine in orig. gray printed wrappers.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Description: TITLE: LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF ENGLISH AUTHORS: ROBERT BROWNING By ELBERT HUBBARD 1900 AUTHOR: ELBERT HUBBARD PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: ROYCROFTERS, NY 1900 EDITION: First Edition CATEGORY: Literature, Rare BINDING/COVER: Softback without dust jacket COLOR: Off Gray CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket as issued. There is some taping to the spine all along the top to the bottom; there are chipping to the edges of the outer wraps. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 (approximately) PAGES: 50 pages. Fair+/None dust jacket condition as issued. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: THIS BOOK IS NUMBER 2 ON THE LIST INSIDE FRONT COVER. The inside cover states that: One book a month will be issued as usual beginning January 1st. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 20 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 006671
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown sewn wrapps., black lettering, dk. red colophon. Tissue overlay on t.p. letterpress pp. 27-56pp. on heavy paper, light fold mark front cover, sl. foxing final p., sm. stain covers.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: limited to 947 copies illumined by hand and signed by Elbert Hubbard and the illuminator, this being copy #847; 162, [2] pp., original green suede, spine faded, else very good. - 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
Description: Signed by Hubbard; frontpiece protrait of Southey with paper protector Very Good in slightly worn, faded, yapped suede; top edge gilt with deckled fore and bottom edges; detached silk ribbon bookmark; some transference from illuminated letters on to facing page throughout. Limited Edition numbered 578 of 940 copies.
Seller: May Day Books, Los Altos Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, 2 Vols.. Roycrofters, NY, 1900.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Roycrofters, 1900, 2 vols. VG cond hardcovers now in archival Brodarts, no dj's, t.e.g., fore- & bottom edges deckle-cut. Tan bds w/ brown wraparound blindstamped leather spine. Significant scuffing to backstrips w/ chipping to head & foot, but no damage to gutters, hinges or bindings. Brown eps. Illus in b&w w/ tissue guards. Except for the scuffing, these are excellent copies. 148pp & 161pp. Books are square, straight, tight, bright & clean, overall VG cond. We also have other, matching volumes in the series, some listed online, some not, & we'd be happy to combine postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in wrappers with light wear.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 20 x 15 cm. 84 pages. Brown limp leather. Limited to 940 copies SIGNED by the author, this being copy 577. Some spotting to the cover, toning to spine. Previous owner's name on first page.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. Pp 85-104. Faded limp green suede. Limited to 940 copies; this is No. 194, signed by E. Hubbard. Crown of both upper and lower cover somewhat damaged, but overall, quite clean.
Seller: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good+ paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: limited to 925 numbered copies, signed by Hubbard; original full suede, very good. - 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$37.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green suede covers with title stamped in gilt. Covers sunned at the edges, silk pastedown endpapers frayed, ink name to flyleaf, paper at front hinge split but the binding is still tight. One of nine hundred and forty copies illuminated by hand, numbered and signed by Elbert Hubbard, this is number 253.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$40.25 + shipping
Description: Frontis, hand illumination, 7 5/8 x 5 3/4, limp brown suede, gilt lettering, watermarked handmade paper, 104 pp. Covers rubbed, darkened and soiled, free endpapers and page edges toned, contemporary ink inscription and date, small tear to free rear endpaper, occasional light soiling, offsetting from ribbon page marker else good. LIMITED TO 940 COPIES, THIS IS NUMBER 79 AND SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.30 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 947 copies (this copy not numbered), in buff paperboards with brown suede leather spine. Small pale stain on front board; spine a little faded. 6 authors bound in one volume: Morris, Browning, Tennyson, Burns, Milton & Johnson Used - Good. Good hardback in paperboards with suede spine
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$43.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Leather. Little Journeys of English Authors Book II. LIMITED EDITION #342 OF 947 COPIES. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only.no inscription). Pages are clean and unmarked. Leather covered covers show edge wear with rubbing/soiling. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.71 + shipping
Description: Very Good in wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.71 + shipping
Description: Good in wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.71 + shipping
Description: Very Good in wrappers. Last page is loose. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.22 + shipping
Description: signed limited edition [93/940] 26pp [hand-illuminated initials] VG+ (soft leather wrappers w.yapp edges,v.sl.soiled w.spine sl.sunned,fore-edge of cloth pastedowns sl.lifting,teg,fore and lower edges untrimmed) very nice copy
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$44.52 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION OF 940 COPIES SPECIALLY ILLUMINATED BY HAND. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This copy no. 503. Original deluxe binding of brown limp reversed morocco covers with yapp edges. Gilt lettering on upper cover. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Frontis portrait. Illuminated title page + 5 illuminated initials designed by Samuel Warner. Overall NF. Wide 8vo.
Seller: Bookstand, Poole, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With spine checking and fading of the spine lettering, otherwise this is a fine, unmarked, hardcover 1900 Roycroft edition in half brown leather and tan paper boards, t.e.g., edges untrimmed, With portraits of the authors (Macaulay, Lord Byron, Addison, Southey, Coleridge & Diraeli on Japan vellum). With arts & crafts designs on the leather, probably Dard Hunter's work. With the 1900 colophon, not signed.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Volume VI. Roycrofters, USA, 1900.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PUBLISHER: Roycrofters DATE/EDITION: 1900, states this edition was limited to 947 copies, this is copy numbered 740. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and Maud Baker, the one who illuminated the book. BINDING: Hardbound in limp green suede covered flexible boards with brown leather labels with gold print on the front cover and spine, top ends gilt, other edges deckled, ribbon marker, 148 pages DUST JACKET: No jacket, as issued BOOK CONDITION: Edges and spine faded to brown, lettering bright, covers secure, text block tight and the book is clean. Some wear and a bit of fraying to the limp edges. DESCRIPTION: Frontispiece picture of William Morris with tissue guard and hand illuminated decorations throughout. Cover labels indicate this is book I.
Seller: RT Books, Wexford, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$46.99 + shipping
Description: Signed by Hubbard and illuminator Maud Baker; contains Hubbard's take on William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, John Milton, and Samuel Johnson; each author preceded by a paper-protected portrait. Very Good in worn, faded, yapped green suede; top edge gilt with deckled fore and bottom edges; silk ribbon bookmark Limited Edition numbered 661 of 947 copies.
Seller: May Day Books, Los Altos Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.38 + shipping
Description: Il bellissimo frontespizio e i capilettera sono illustrati da Samuel Warner, i 6 ritratti f.t. degli autori, tutti protetti da velina, sono di Nellie Bowlen. Publ. by Roycrofter - New York, 1900. Edizione in tiratura Limitata a 947 esemplari numerati, nostro n° 804. Pelle scamosciata editoriale con dorso non originale in cartoncino muto. Le copertine in pelle si presentano sbiadite e usurate ai margini ma l'interno è Perfetto. Bell'Ex-Libris in antiporta. 15x19,5; pp.162. Buonissimo stato. , Molto buono (Very Good)
Seller: L'Angolo del Collezionista di B. Pileri, Rignano Flaminio, RM, Italy
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, 1900. First edition, number 552 of 947 specially illumined copies with hand colored decorations. Tan hardcover with black cloth spine, Roycroft paper label, 7.75 inches tall. Some shelf soil to the covers, rubs to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages with a name and date neatly written at the top of the front free endpaper, no other markings. First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: suade leather covers, gilt lettering on leather plates for the title on front cover and spine, signed limited edition #169 of 947 copies, also signed by the illuminator Maud Baker, octavo, 162 pages, very good condition, no dust jacket as issued, features authors Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, and Benjamin Disraeli, clean copy. Size: Octavo
Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Square octavo, 144pp. A very good copy in the publisher's brown suede. Yapped edges somewhat worn, but intact. General fading to suede, but still a clean copy. This is copy 102/947 numbered copies signed by Hubbard.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Boards. Portrait plate. Hand-illumined. Shelf wear. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is an antique book hand-illumined and hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. From the 1900 English Authors series (Vol. VI). (McKenna 62).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, 25 pages, full brown suede, brown satin endpapers, yapp edges Copy no. 553 of a stated limitation of 947 copies, signed for Elbert Hubbard. Portrait frontispiece of William Morris. Hand-tinted title-page and hand-colored initials. [ McKenna 62a - citing 925 copies ]. Describes the home of William Morris, Kelmscott House. On Roycroft watermarked paper.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1/4 inch thick, Illustrated by W.W. Denslow (His watermark last page) & Hand Illuminated [Colored], Hand-Made paper, Brn Suede Leather, Gilt title, Fine (Ltd & Numbered ed 6/940, Signed by Hubbard) (This is a high quality Hubbard item)
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plate. Hand-illumined. Signed and numbered (no. 536 of 947) by Hubbard on limitation page. Shelf wear. Scuffing and fading to leather. Tight and clean. Limited edition signed, numbered, and hand-illumined book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. From the 1900 English Authors series (Vol. VI). (McKenna 62).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, Elbert. Robert Southey. Hubbard/Roycrofters, New York, 1900.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 104pp, suede, octavo. #508 of 940 signed and limited copies Little Journeys - English Authors. tight binding, clean throughout, waviness to the page edges, dynamic color to the title page, soiled wraps with clear gilt tiles, worn edges, Good
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edition of 940 copies by Elbert Hubbard. Arts and craft publishing house, book is created using Tan Suede spine and papered bds, bright Gilt top edge, Brown eps, Paper is handmade and Watermarked by Roycrofts, illustrations are hand Woodblock printed with title page portrait and initials being designed by Samuel Warner. 165 pages with 5 nice portrait illus of the artists with clean tissue guards CONDITION Suede to spine is fragile and rubbed, nice clean copy with very bright interior. An exceptionally good copy of what is an unusually fragile book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$69.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: limited to 947 copies illumined by hand and signed by Elbert Hubbard and the illuminators, these being copies #32 & 856, respectively; 2 volumes, 144, [2] 162, [2] pp., original green suede, minor age discoloration to the covers, else very good. - 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$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full brown suede, gilt titling. Spine faded, bottom edge lightly bent from shelf storage, endsheets browned, silk inset frayed, small spot on front cover. Number 370 of 940 copies SIGNED by Hubbard. Hand-colored title page and initials, gravure portrait frontispiece. Size: 6¼" by 8¾"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in in blue paper boards with black cloth spine and white printed label wrapping the spine. No dust jacket, as issued. First edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Printed on thick handmade paper, with some minor discoloration throughout. Top edge trimmed, otherwise rag edges. Very light overall wear. Neatly inked name of prior owner and date on front free endpage, including "Marshall Field" in parenthesis. Intricately colored Morris design on title page, with intact tissue protector, followed by illustrated capital letters throughout, all designed by Roycroft artists. Frontis portrait of Morris, after a painting by Watts. 12mo. 26 pp.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown suede with brown leather title panel with gilt tiles to the front. 91 pp. This copy is VG+. Exterior is rich. Gilt is bright. Minimal signs of wear to the yapped edges. Spine is only minimally sunned . One nickel sized rub to back cover. Inside has brown silk EPs and brown silk bookmark. Frontispiece with tissue guard of Whitman after the bas-relief by Saint Jerome Roycroft. Text is modestly/evenly toned, unmarked and firmly bound. Suede cover is starting to pull away from the spine at the inside front hinge, but holding. Hand illuminated initial letters throughout.
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Grey wrapper. Printed in 1900 by the Roycrofters. The green initials on the front cover in the Roycroft logo were designed by Mr. Samuel Warner (honest Roycrofter). The paper is hand-made, Roycroft water-mark. The booklet is stitched by hand with silk. A photogravure portrait on Japan Vellum accompanies each booklet as a frontispiece. This booklet is about the home of William Morris, with his portrait as the frontispiece, after a painting by Watts. The Roycrofters are a small band of workers who make beautiful books and things - making them as good as they can. The initials are illumined by hand. Spine is split half way at the seam.
Seller: Bookends, Hutchinson, KS, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors: William Morris. Roycrofters, 1900.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to hardcover volume in blue paper boards with a black cloth spine. A little discoloration to the blue else near fine. Inscribed by Hubbard. On thick rag paper with uncut edges.5 illuminations. Contents fine.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo. xii, 497, [1] pp, plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Title in red & blk. Frntsp., numerous plates. Original limp suede, gilt lettrng frnt cvr & spine (vry mnr rubbng, shlfwr), still a VG copy, w/ silk moire endpapers. Early printing of the 5th volume in Putnam's printing of the Little Journeys series by the Roycrofters.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This edition limited to 940 copies , This copy is Number 112, Signed by Elbert Hubbard. Limp brown Suede binding shows light wear. Top edge guilt, Edges of pages lightly tanned. Brown silk front and back end papers. 50pp. content clean, bright and sound. This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request. 20cm x 15.5cm x 1cm -
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy right dated 1899 to front, actual publishing date October 1900 to rear. Numbered 446/940 copies signed by Elbert Hubbard. Arts and craft publishing house, book is created using Full Tan Suede bds with yapped edges, bright Gilt embossed titles, Brown Silk pastedowns, Paper is handmade and Watermarked by Roycrofts, illustrations are hand Woodblock printed and Hand Coloured with title page portrait and initials being designed by Samuel Warner. 104 pages CONDITION Suede faded at spine faded, light wear to spine heel, nice clean copy with wonderful portrait of Southey to front with clean tissue guard. An exceptionally good copy of what is an unusually fragile book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by Elbert Hubbard. Owner signature. Chip to the spine lower edge. Good condition.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors William Morris. Roycrofters,, 1900.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Roycrofters, 1900, No. 185 of 947, signed by Hubbard, 6"x8", brown limp suede covers, 26pp., illuminated title-page & initials, a little sunning, owner's inscription, VG- $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Description: Frontis portrait of Milton; hand colored initials and title page border, 8.5 x 6.25, full gilt lettered suede, teg, 118 pp, covers worn and sunned, large chips from foredges of covers, hinges loose, some toning (esp to endpapers) else a decent copy. LIMITED TO 925 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.55 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 947 copies. The present copy is number 579 signed by Elbert Hubbard. Portrait frontispiece of William Morris, illuminated title page lettered in black and 4 other illuminated letters within the book. 25(1)pp., bound in the notable Roycroft brown suede, two leather labels gilt, ribbon marker, yapped edges., silk pastedowns. A fine bright copy in a plain dust jacket which has protected the suede from its usual deterioration. A lovely copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: All six volumes are in very near fine to very good condition in heavy printed, paper wraps with a sewn thread binding. All are small octavos measuring 8 by 6 inches. The contents of each are fine with no foxing, tanning or notations. These volumes include William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, John Milton and Samuel Johnson.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: All six volumes are in very near fine condition in heavy printed, paper wraps with a sewn thread binding. All are small octavos measuring 8 by 6 inches. The contents of each are fine with no foxing, tanning or notations. These volumes include Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, S. T. Coleridge and Benjamin Disraeli.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 947 copies with the signature of Hubbard - often forged by his employees, 8vo, pp. [8], 25, [1]; frontispiece portrait of Morris after a painting by Watts; title page, first page of text and 3 woodcut initials are all hand-illuminated and hand-colored; original limp reverse calf, silk pastedowns; previous owner's inscription on the first flyleaf; all else very good. Another limited edition of 925 copies of the same title was printed later the same year. See Thompson, p. 172 where the later edition is illustrated. The Roycrofters took over the printing of the Little Journeys series from G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1900. This is the first Little Journey to appear under the Roycroft imprint.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine, unmarked, 1900 Roycrofters edition in limp brown suede binding with gold lettering, Copy Number 838/940 signed by Elbert Hubbard. A fine copy, no chipping of the Yapp suede binding, top edge guilt, satin marker ribbon. This is an exceptionally fine copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine, unmarked, 1900 Roycrofters edition in limp brown suede binding with gold lettering, Copy Number 290/925 signed by Elbert Hubbard. A fine copy, no chipping of the Yapp suede binding, top edge guilt, satin marker ribbon. This is an exceptionally fine copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine, unmarked, 1900 Roycrofters edition in limp brown suede binding with gold lettering, Copy Number 751/940 signed by Elbert Hubbard. A fine copy, no chipping of the Yapp suede binding, top edge guilt, satin marker ribbon. This is an exceptionally fine copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine, unmarked, 1900 Roycrofters edition in limp brown suede binding with gold lettering, Copy Number 205/925 signed by Elbert Hubbard. A fine copy, no chipping of the Yapp suede binding, top edge guilt, satin marker ribbon. This is an exceptionally fine copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine, unmarked, 1900 Roycrofters edition in limp brown suede binding with gold lettering, Copy Number 43/940 signed by Elbert Hubbard. A fine copy, no chipping of the Yapp suede binding, top edge guilt, satin marker ribbon. This is an exceptionally fine copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Roycrofters, 1900, NAP, presumed 1st Edition. Limited Edition #602/947, SIGNED by author Elbert Hubbard. VG cond. hardcover, no dj. Green marbled bds, 3/4 green-fading-to-brown suede leather w/ bright gilt lettering on spine, 5 raised bands. Fore- & bottem edges deckled, t.e.g. Approx 1" dia. dark spot on lower spine. Green marbled pastedowns & eps. Book is complete, intact & unmarked. Initials & title page designed by Samuel Warner. 144pp + 2pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG or better cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. Various paginations.Vol 7/2: Lord Byron ⢠v11/5: Abbey ⢠v12/1: Pericles ⢠v13/1: Marat ⢠v13/4: Starr King ⢠v14/1: Socrates ⢠v14/2: Seneca ⢠v14/3: Aristotle ⢠v14/5: Spinoza ⢠v15/4: Spencer ⢠v25/1: Peter Cooper ⢠v25/2: Andrew Carnegie ⢠v25/3: George Peabody. Lady Macbeth: A Shakespearian Story of Temptation by George William Gerwig ⢠Some Books for Sale at Our Shop. Sewn wraps, printed covers, very good condition. (76164).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontis portrait of Whitman. Hand colored title page, rear colophon and initial letters. Silk end papers, with bookmark. Brown Seude binding.Light wear to cover. Very good to Fine.
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Condition is fair to poor. Most pages in all volumes are loose and detached from binding but are intact. Titles include: Vol. XX May MCMVII No. 5 / Vol. XX April MCMVII No. 4 / Vol. XXI September MCMVII No. 3 / Vol. XI December 1902 No. 5 / Vol. XVII October 1905 No. 4 / Vol. XXI November MCMVII No. 5 / Vol. XXI December MCMVII No. 6 / Vol. XXI October MCMVII No. 4 / Vol. XX June MCMVII No. 6 / Vol. XIX September 1906 No. 3 / Vol. XIX October 1906 No. 4 / Vol. XIX November 1906 No. 5 / Vol. XXI July MCMVII No. 1 / Vol. XXI August MCMVII No. 2 / All volumes show a great amount of wear to page edges, covers and spine. Text is clear on all volumes. It might contain some markings on selected pages. One additional volume does not have publishing information and does not have covers.
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, 1900. Limited edition, one of 947 copies "specially illumined", but not numbered and without the color added to the initials which is typical for the illumined editions. Lovely Arts & Crafts binding, half leather with blindstamped lettering and decoration, covers in golden brown paper, matching endpapers, attached ribbon bookmark. Light edge rubbing, good hinges, firm binding, clean pages, date written on verso of front free endpaper, no other names or markings. This volume includes: William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, John Milton, Samuel Johnson. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Softcover, 12mo, 2 volume, portrait, 20 cm. Series: His Little journeys. SUBJECT (S) : Authors, English. Title page. And initials designed by Samuel Warner; book 2 illumined by Frances Carmody. Bumped corners and edges. Wear to binding. Otherwise good condition. (Sef-28-5).
Seller: Dan Wyman Books, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limp suede binding with gilt title inset on cover and moire endpapers and silk ribbon. Frontispiece is a photogravure of the Bas Relief by St. Jerome-Roycroft and title page designed by Louis Rhead. Hand illumined initial letters throughout (no signature). A fine, tight, clean copy. 91 pgs.
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [6], 91, [1] pp. Woodcut-engraved illustrated title by Louis Rhead, photogravure frontisp. by Saint Jerome Roycroft, hand-coloured initials. Publishers limp brown suede, embossed brown & gilt title on front cover, brown silk endpapers, printed on Boxmoor paper (slight rubbing, very minor soiling), still NF copy, from the library of Dr. William Henry Skene (1870-1934), adopted son of the famed Scottish-American ob/gyn Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1837-1900). First Roycroft edition of this homage to Walt Whitman. McKenna, History and Bibliography of the Roycroft Printing Shop, No. 65.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Of this edition but nine hundred and forty-seven copies were printed and illuminated by hand. This book is Number 830. (signed) Elbert Hubbard. Gilt lettering on brown spine label and inset brown leather front cover title box. Flexible soft leather tan covers with overlapping edges ("Yapp" edges). Top edge gilt. 8vo, 144 pages. The delicate "Yapp" edges have short tears at the spine ends and the top front corner. The back cover has a greenish hue - perhaps the original leather color.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY., 1900. Vol. VI (Book 1) 144pp. Limited edition #258/947; Elaborately numbered and signed by Elbert Hubbard with a stylized "Illumined by" and Merritt Kyser's signature. The title page and all initials are designed by Samuel Warner black floral panel with two colors and gilt boarder and accent, both quite nice, VII more so. Handmade watermarked paper and silk ribbon marker. VOL VII (Book 2) 162 pp. #343/947 Hand signed by Elbert Hubbard (slightly different) with, (hand drawn?) Roycrofter device as well as hand printed "Illumined By" and the signature of Nellie Bowen. Each part with frontis portrait of the author covered. Three-quarter suede and marbled paper covers; 6 sections with raised bands with gilt stamp title inserts on the spine. Marbled endpapers to match boards. Good only: Binding is solid no missing, torn or soiled pages however the suede is rubbed and has been treated with Klucel G to prevent further damage caused by Red rot. The back panel of Vol. VII was previously repaired and is sound but not attractive. ; 8vo ; fair
Seller: E Ridge Fine Books, Lake Elsinore, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Chipping on spine, spine edges, and crown/heel. Bumping at corners of front/rear panels.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plates. Hand-illumined. Signed and numbered (no. 1 of 947) by Hubbard and illuminator Metcalf on limitation page. Shelf wear. Scuffing and fading to leather. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Tight and clean. This is a single leather-bound volume collecting 6 biographical pamphlets from this series. Original portrait pages complete and bound in. Limited edition signed, numbered, and hand-illumined book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 61).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full suede and marbled paper covers with gilt stamped title insets on spine and printed on watermarked paper for both volumes with ribbons. (Volume VI, New Series, Book I, 148 pgs. Volume VII, New Series, Book II, 162 pgs.) Hand illuminated and limited to 947 copies (only Volume VII is signed by both Elbert Hubbard and illuminator Maud Baker). Very tight, clean bindings with very slight shelf wear.
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$209.88 + shipping
Description: Softback, 8 x 6 inches. Dark green soft suede leather fine binding, with gilt lettering to front. Top page edges gilt. Brown silk cloth endpapers. In very good near fine condition. Some darkening to spine, some rubbing to edges of suede on cover else clean and smart. Signed and numbered by author behind title page. Attribution inscription to front endpaper ?To Ernest Hartley Coleridge, with the Compliments of James Carleton Young. April 1902.? Page edges rough cut, else all very clean and tight throughout. A very good clean and tight signed copy. 132pp. Illustrated with a B&W engraved frontis portrait, decorative coloured title page and decorative coloured letterpieces. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846?1920) was a British literary scholar and poet. He was son of Derwent Coleridge and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Educated at Highgate School, Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford. He did scholarly work on his grandfather's manuscripts, being the last of the Coleridges involved in their editing. He also took part in the campaign to buy the Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey for the nation.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Elbert Hubbard. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, 2 vol. Roycrofters, 1900.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes. #553/947cc. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and illuminator Ida Metcalf. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Some edgewear. Gift inscription on front endpapers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full limp reverse calf, 8 1/2 inches tall. A beautifully printed limp reverse calf with yapp edges, and gilt titling to the upper cover. Hand coloured title page and initials by Samuel Warner and printed on hand made deckle edged paper. One of 925 'hand illumined' copies of which this is number 6. Signed by Elbert Hubbard.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Description: Illus frontis; nicely illus title page, 9 x 6", gilt-lettered brown suede with leather edges; teg, 91pp, covers a bit rubbed, leather edges chipped, some toning to eps, LIMITED TO 50 NUMBEReD COPIES "SPECIALLY ILLUMINATED BY HAND", SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD AND CLARA SCHLEGEL WHO DRAWS AND COLORS THE ROYCROFT LOGO AT HER SIGNATURE. Beautifully hand colored, especially at title page.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.