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Hubbard, Elbert.. So Here Then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete or Some Chums of Mine.. East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1914., 1914.

Price: US$14.95 + shipping

Description: 221pp, (5.25 x 7.25 inches), b&w photos. Very Good / no dust jacket. Full leather (pigskin), light brown, flexible, with embossed design and lettering. Leather is lightly worn, two little tears at head of spine, a couple scuffed spots. Opened too wide at second blank page, otherwise contents clean, crisp and tight. No markings.

Seller: Sara Armstrong - Books, Cedarville, CA, U.S.A.

Elbert Hubbard. So Here Then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete (Or) Some Chum of Mine. Roycrofters, New York, 1914.

Price: US$19.00 + shipping

Description: Book Condition: Good/Very good. DJ. Condition: No dj. Spine faded to cloth covers. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.

Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.

Elbert Hubbard. So Here Then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete or Some Chums of Mine. Roycrofters, East Aurora, New York,, 1914.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Condition is G to VG. Text is clean & tight. Embossed leather covers are still clean and bright, but there is some edge and corner wear. 1914 full leather bound book.

Seller: Shady Grove Book Store, West Branch, MI, U.S.A.

Elbert Hubbard. So Here then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete or Some Chums of Mine. Roycrofters, 1914.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Soft tooled leather boards with embossed and gilt decoration and type. Front and rear boards appear to be a dark greenish black; spine is uncolored leather. Gilt on front is bright, boards are rubbed and show some wear, back board is splitting from paper backing, see photo. Top edge is gilt with red stripe. Other edges deckled. Green linen end papers very good, unfaded, with prior owner ex libris sticker. Interior pages are excellent, no marks, light toning. Binding is solid, very slight splitting at the gutter on blank spread before the title page. See photos which are a part of this description. More available upon request.

Seller: Tefka, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

HUBBARD, Elbert.. So Here then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete; or, Some Chums of Mine.. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1914.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: 221 [2] pp. Small 8vo, original flexible embossed pigskin. 1916 gift inscription on front free endpaper; spine very slightly sunned; traces of slight rubbing at extremities. An attractive copy.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Elbert Hubbard, Alice Hubbard, and the Roycrofters. So here then cometh Pig-Pen Pete; or, Some Chums of Mine, Being stories truthfully related by Elbert Hubbard about some of our Dumb Brothers to whom we are much beholden for needed examples of love, loyalty, honesty and virtue.. The Roycrofters, 1914.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good, 8vo, 7 1/2" x 5 1/4." Brown full-leather binding with blind-stamped lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. Covers have surface chipping and moderate wear to extremities, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages clean and intact overall except for slight wear to edges and tips and faint dampstaining throughout, which affects the bottom part of the book. Some pages unexploded. Beautiful color title illustration and black-and-white plates and decorative illustrations included. 219 pp., including in-text illustrations, + plates. Back colophon summarizes the contents of this book: "Here endeth 'Pig-Pen Pete,' and various other ventures in nature-faking, all as truthfully done in love for his dumb brothers, by Fra Elbertus, except as otherwise indicated." A love letter to animals and a collection of short stories about them. _Pig-Pen Pete_ is both a full embrace of and playful satire on the "nature faker" genre of literature, which was derided by some for its anthropomorphic and sentimental depictions of nature. Author Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) was the founder of the Roycroft community of artists and craft workers in East Aurora, New York. His wife, Alice Hubbard (1861-1915), wrote one of the stories in this book, "Garnett and the Brindled Cow." Collected and collated by John T. Hoyle. Printed by A. V. Ingham. This book is also a fine example of the Roycrofters' artistry, craftsmanship, and artistic output. The Roycrofters specialized in a number of artistic disciplines while promoting the Arts and Crafts movement. Some of the disciplines represented by the Roycroft community were printing, bookbinding, metalworking, leathercraft, and furniture design.

Seller: Amatoria Fine Art Books, IOBA, CALIBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Hubbard, Elbert. So Here Then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete or Some Chums of Mine Being Stories Truthfully Related By Elbert Hubbard About Some Needed Examples of Love, Loyalty, Honesty, and Virtue. Roycrofters, East Aurora, New York, 1914.

Price: US$128.75 + shipping

Description: Octavo. Since the turn of the century, Hubbard wanted to find something entirely new and experimental. In June 1903, Dard Hunter (1883-1966), then only nineteen came to East Aurora, who designed format, designed the title pages and end pieces and plan the finest typographical layouts. In Hunter's autobiography he describes his training at roycroft and concludes that: "Mr. Hubbard probably had more influence in the development of book-collecting than any other person of his generation" (My Life with Paper, pp. 29-43). Dard Hunter's designs show that he carefully studied the German and Austrian periodicals. His style was a formalized Art Nouveau. This clarity was lacking in the earlier Roycroft books. His work was a departure from the work of Samuel Warner. Even though Dard Hunter left East Aurora in 1910 to continue his studies in Vienna, his borders and spot decorations were used in later editions of the Roycrofter books such as this work which used his designs four years after he left for Europe to further his studies of design. Bound in full pig skin pictorially stamped in blind, decorative blind stamped spine, ribbon marker, damp staining to first few leaves to outer margins, chipping to head with wear to edges.

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.