Price: US$9.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Memorial Edition of Hubbard's "Little Journeys" books, this one being on the home of the great orators: Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Martin Luther, Edmund Burke, William Pitt, Jean Paul Marat, Robert Ingersoll, Patrick Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher, and Wendell Phillips. Illustrated. Bookplate on front pastedown, top edges gilt, very small stain on top corner of free endpaper.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Type: Hardback New York: Wm H. Wise & Co., 1916. Volume III of the 14-volume series. In Very Condition. No jacket, as issued. Although the copyright date on the reverse of the title page is 1916, this is The Anniversary Edition produced by the Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, and dated 1922, as noted on last page of the book. Examples of the craftsman style of the Roycrofters are seen in the initials of the beginniing letters of sections, borders, and plates. Included are portraits of each subject; frontis portrait tissue protected, with red lettering. Embossed leather brown cover with paper affixed title plate to spine, clean with faint wear to corners; sewn binding solid, square; top edge gilt; fore-edge and lower edge rough cut; internals in quite nice condition--pages quite clean, no creasing. Shadow on pages 282-283. Includes essay: The Little Journeys Camp, by Bert Hubbard, with illustration plate. Fibe, Rich, Pie and Butsch were the bunch that built it, a gang of youngsters about 13-years-old. Short biographical sketches of selected personalities: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, John Hnacock, John Quincy Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John Jay, William H. Seward, Abraham Lincoln. xii, 305 pages. 8.5 x 6.25 inches. William W. Wise & Co., 1922.
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket; Edges bumped. ; Borders, plates and intials by the Roycroft Artists. Includes ribbon marker. Embossed leather cover and spine. Memorial edition. ; Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great; 418 pages
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth. Top edge gilt.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cloth. Top edge gilt. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Memorial Edition of Volume One of Hubbard's famous "Little Journeys" works, this volume being on Good Men and Great: George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William E. Gladstone, J. M. W. Turner, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, William M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare, and Thomas A. Edison. Also has biographical information on Hubbard. Bookplate on front pastedown, top edges gilt, RARE dust jacket which has a small tear at the head of its spine. Illustrated.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Memorial Edition of one of Hubbard's famous "Little Journeys" works, this volume being on English authors: William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas B. MaCaulay, Lory Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, and Benjamin Disraeli. Bookplate on front pastedown, top edges gilt, RARE dust jacket. Illustrated.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Description: Full-Leather. No Jacket. HB NODJ ISSUED,1916, Enbossed Brown Leather Cover minor rub & slight wear mainly spine & edges, ribbon bookmark, VG+, VG-, AS-IS, NODJ
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. Little Journeys: To the Homes of the Great.. WILLIAM H WISE & CO, 1916.
Price: US$19.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Memorial First edition without jacket on illustrated cloth aged book with slightly bent covers will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NOT EX-LIBRARY: Volume 7 only: Fair to poor condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1916, "Anniversary Edition", 419 pages. Embossed Elbert Hubbard on the front board. Brown cloth boards are bumped and chipped at the corners and spine ends. Binding cracked to the webbing at the title page. The title plate on the spine is aged/rubbed, with a little strip missing through the middle. Cloth split along the front gutter from top to bottom. The interior is aged, but solid. Some pencil underlining. "Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York." Size: 8vo - 7" to 9" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small Tear To The Upper Left Front Corner. Binding Is Cloth And Brown Suede On The Spine With Gilted Lettering. Very Nice Book With Gilt Edge To Pages Along Top, Deckled Edge On Right, And Frayed Silk Bookmark.
Seller: Books Galore Missouri, Desoto, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Monochrome plates, b/w woodcut chapter letters. Memorial edition. Volume 8 of 14. Modeled leather, uncut & unopened, t.e.g., marking ribbons. 8vo. pp. 429, [1] colophon. Good+. Cap and corner chipping to binding, internally fine.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Monochrome plates, b/w woodcut chapter letters. Memorial edition. Volume 14 of 14. Modeled leather, uncut & unopened, t.e.g., marking ribbons. 8vo. pp. 357, [1] colophon, liv (Index). Good. Cap and corner chipping to binding and rear fore-edge, internally fine.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: brown embossed full leather w/moderate edgewear and chipping, 414 clean, unmarked pages, some uncut; satin marker; Memorial Edition includes: Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Humbolt, William Herschel, Charles Darwin, Haecel, Linnaeus, Thomas H. Huxley, John Tynall, Alfred Russell Wallae, John Fiske Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. Little Journeys To The Homes of Great Musicians Vol. XIV. William H. Wise, 1916.
Price: US$21.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ***GOOD CONDITION***CLEAN PAGES***EX-LIBRARY stamps stickers/marked out name, moderate edge wear, stamp on top/side/bottom,sticker remained on side of book & on inside of title page. We specialize in non-fiction books. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Seller: Lot O'Books, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Monochrome plates, b/w woodcut chapter letters. Memorial edition. Volume 7 of 14. Modeled leather, uncut & unopened, t.e.g., marking ribbons. 8vo. pp. 418, [1] colophon. VG. Edgewear to binding, internally fine.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Memorial Edition. Scarce in jacket. Includes chapters on William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas B. Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, and Benjamin Disraeli. This is Volume Five in a series of books about great men. While Hubbard includes a chapter on Morris, he did not actually ever meet him (despite saying otherwise); however, he did tour the Kelmscott Press. Bound in tan cloth boards with white paper title label to spine. Frontispiece illustration of Morris and Morris inspired title page design and initals. A few pages have been opened poorly, creating chips along the edges. Clean and bright. In tan dust jacket with black title to spine and front cover. A few chips and closed tears to edges of jacket. Price sticker removed from spine of jacket (has lifted finish) and red pen marking to spine. 347 pages. MOR/102418.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: brown embossed full leather w/moderate edge wear (rubbing); satin marker; 306 clean, unmarked, some uncut pages. includes chapters on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Quincy Adams, Alexander Hamilton Daniel Webter, Henry Clay, John Jay, William H. Seward, Abraham Lincoln Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume I of the series. A series of biographies, accompanied by portraits of the subjects, protected by tissue. The subjects are George Eliot (!), Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William E. Gladstone, J. M. W. Turner, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, William M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare. Thomas A. Edison, The text is clean and tight, with no marks or discolouration, Top page edges are gold, the others rough cut. Binding is of rich glossy brown leather with a blind-embossed design of trees on the frnt cover and decoration on the spine. The top and side edges of the spine are rubbed, the bottom spine edge has a tear of less than one inch in height and width. The beautif binding and printing is by The Roycrofters Size: 8vo
Seller: JCMBooks, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NOT EX-LIBRARY: Volume 1 only: Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1916, "Anniversary Edition", 346 pages. Embossed Elbert Hubbard on the front board. Brown cloth boards are bumped and chipped at the corners and spine ends. The title plate on the spine is chipped around the edges, and aged. The interior is aged, but solid and unmarked. "This copy of The Anniversary Edition in Fourteen Volumes of Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great has been specifically prepared by the Roycrofters in their shops, which are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York for O. A. Uppendahl." and "Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York." Size: 8vo - 7" to 9" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NOT EX-LIBRARY: Volume 14 only: Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1916, "Anniversary Edition", 358 pages plus index. Embossed Elbert Hubbard on the front board. Brown cloth boards are bumped and chipped at the corners and spine ends. The title plate on the spine is rubbed/aged with chipping. The interior is aged, but solid. Some pencil underlining. "Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York." Size: 8vo - 7" to 9" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NOT EX-LIBRARY: Volume 11 only: Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1916, "Anniversary Edition", 436 pages. Embossed Elbert Hubbard on the front board. Brown cloth boards are bumped and chipped at the corners and spine ends. The title plate on the spine is rubbed/aged. The interior is aged, but solid. Some pencil underlining. "Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York." Size: 8vo - 7" to 9" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$92.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NOT EX-LIBRARY: Volume 9 only: Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1916, "Anniversary Edition", 396 pages. Embossed Elbert Hubbard on the front board. Brown cloth boards are bumped and chipped at the corners and spine ends. The title plate on the spine is rubbed/aged. The interior is aged, but solid. Some pencil underlining. "Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York." Size: 8vo - 7" to 9" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$92.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NOT EX-LIBRARY: Volume 12 only: Fair condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 1916, "Anniversary Edition", 415 pages. Embossed Elbert Hubbard on the front board. Brown cloth boards are bumped and chipped at the corners and spine ends. The title plate on the spine is rubbed/aged. The interior is aged, but solid. Some pencil underlining. "Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Eric County, New York." Size: 8vo - 7" to 9" Tall
Seller: Squirrel Away Books, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.22 + shipping
Description: Good copy in original cloth with a paper label to the spine. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 12 volumes. Contents; volume I: Elbert Hubbard. vol. II: Bert Hubbard. vol. III: George Washington. vol. IV: Michelangelo. vol. V: William Morris. vol. VI: Raphael. vol. VII: Pericles. vol. VIII: Socrates. vol. IX: John Wesley. vol. X: Moses. vol. XI: Robert Owen. vol. XIV: Richard Wagner. Subjects; Biography. Elbert Hubbard. Bert Hubbards. George Washington. Michelangelo. William Morris. Raphael. Pericles. Socrates. John Wesley. Moses. Robert Owen. Richard Wagner. 4 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eight hardcover volumes of the Memorial Edition of 1916 published by Wm. H. Wise, with SIGNED letter laid in. Tooled, stamped, embossed covers. No dust jackets, as issued. Books are crisp, clean, and solid, with rough-cut pages, reading ribbons sewn in, and gilt on top edges. Light wear to edges of a few of the books, but overall the condition is very good. Titles are Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Fra Elbertus; Eminent Orators; and The Legacy. (Complete set is 14 volumes. ) Included is a two-paragraph letter typed and signed by Hubbard, with original envelope, stamped Sept. 27, 1904, and addressed to his niece. All books have frontispiece picture. Heavy--nearly 12 pounds; will require additional postage if shipped priority or outside the U. S.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in original cloth with a paper label to the spine. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 12 volumes. Contents; volume I: Elbert Hubbard. vol. II: Bert Hubbard. vol. III: George Washington. vol. IV: Michelangelo. vol. V: William Morris. vol. VI: Raphael. vol. VII: Pericles. vol. VIII: Socrates. vol. IX: John Wesley. vol. X: Moses. vol. XI: Robert Owen. vol. XIV: Richard Wagner. Subjects; Biography. Elbert Hubbard. Bert Hubbards. George Washington. Michelangelo. William Morris. Raphael. Pericles. Socrates. John Wesley. Moses. Robert Owen. Richard Wagner. 4 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.