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Price: US$4.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Series: Little Journeys: Volume XXI, No. 6, December, 1907. Frontis loose, minor wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Series: Little Journeys: Volume XXI, No. 5, November, 1907. Frontis loose, minor wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Series: Little Journeys: Volume XX, No. 5, June, 1907. Frontis loose, minor wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Series: Little Journeys: Volume XVIII, No. 6, June, 1906. Frontis loose, minor wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Series: Little Journeys: Volume 22, No.4, April, 1907. Frontis loose, minor wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 1-23pp Loose leaf illustration of John Bright laid in. VG- in wraps (corners bumped, wear to edges, some foxing to endpapers). Front wrap incorrectly indicates this issue is about Thomas Paine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 1-23pp Loose leaf illustration of John Bright laid in. VG in wraps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. Great Reformers, Little Journeys to the Homes of. Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1907.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Description: Tan paper over boards, cloth spine, red lettering, edges rubbed, soiled. Book 11, John Bright, Bradlaugh, etc. FER; 3304
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Description: Tan leather strip covering the spine. Light tan hardcovers. White lettering to the cover. There's a paper label glued to the top of the spine. Heavy wear to the spine. The spine has several chips, tears, and missing pieces with soiling. The boards and binding are exposed along the top edge of the spine. More general surface and edge wear to the rest of the covers. The corners have been bumped. The boards are exposed in the corners. Scuffing and soiling to the surfaces of the cover. Previous owners' names stamped and written inside. Several cracks in the spine throughout the book. Pages appear to be secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: Tan wraps (wear and rubbing to wraps with minor nicks to extremities, slight soiling to edge from damp); Feature discussing Roosevelt's Square deal. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. 4 1/2 X 6'. THis phamphlet has coarse textured, kacki colored wraps that are printed in black and red. It is hand stiched. There are numerous ads. The main text goes from page 97 to 128. I have listed a number of these. Orders for multiple copies will be combine for a substantial savings on mailing cost. books are normally mailed within 24 hours.
Seller: Pages of the Past, Fort Ripley, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. 4 1/2 X 6". This phamphlet ihas a course textured, kacki colored wraps printed in black and red. it has numerous ads. The main text goes from pages 161 to 192. I have listed a number of these. Orders for multiple copies will be combined for a substantial savings on mailing costs. Books are normally mailed within 24 hours.
Seller: Pages of the Past, Fort Ripley, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. 4 1/2 X 6". Name in ink on front cover. This booklet has a coarse textured, kacki colored wraps that was printed in black and red. It is hand stiched. It has numerous ads. The main text is on pages 97 to 122. I have listed a number of these. Orders for multiple copies will be combine for a substantial saving on mailing cost. Books are normally mailed within 24 hours.
Seller: Pages of the Past, Fort Ripley, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. 4 1/2 X 6". Name in ink on front cover. This booklet has coarse textured, kacki colored wraps thar were printed in black and red. It is hand stiched. It has numerous ads. The main text is on pages 65 to 96. I have listed a number ofthese. orders for multiple copies will be combined for a substantial savings on mailing costs. Books are normally mailed within 24 hours.
Seller: Pages of the Past, Fort Ripley, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. 4 1/2 X 6'. There are a couple names in ink on front cover. This booklet has a course textured, kacki colored wraps printed in black and red. It is hand stiched.It has numerous ads. The main text is on pages 33 to 48. I have listed a number of these. Orders for multiple copies will be combine for a substantial savings on mailing costs. Books are normally mailed within 24 hours.
Seller: Pages of the Past, Fort Ripley, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1907 copyright by the author, of this hardcover without the dust jacket. The boards have rubbing, soiling with scattered stains to the surface and edges. The previous owner's book plate is on the inside of the front cover with penciled previous owner's names on the initial page. With those exceptions the contents appears clean with no remainder marks and not an ex-library. We ship daily.
Seller: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. XX, No. 2, February 1907 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Henry George, an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. Includes frontis illustration of Henry George. Pages are age-toned; minor edgewear.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. XX, No. 4, April 1907 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Richard Cobden, British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty. Includes frontis illustration of Cobden. Minor edgewear.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vol. XXI, No. 2, August 1907 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Charles Bradlaugh, a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century, who founded the National Secular Society in 1866. Few stains, minor edgewear, pages age-toned.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. XXI, No. 6, December 1907 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. Light edgewear; stains on bottom outside page corners, including on corner of the illustrated frontis of Rousseau.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.79 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Covers are detached and have moderate edgewear; age-toning. Vol. XX, No. 3, March 1907 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Garibaldi, an Italian military and political figure of the 19th century. Includes frontis of Garibaldi, which has edgewear and light soils.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The January 1907 issue of this periodical publication, being on the "home" of the great religious reformer, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Includes frontis illustration of Wesley. Has some edge chips and cover is detached (but is present)
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.40 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FAIR. illustrated Roycrofters magazine, bagged for protection with a stiff backing board, approx. 6'' x 8'', heavy chips and tears to edges of wraps, heavy handling wear, tattered spine, brittle covers, text is very clean, see photos. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.
Seller: Once Read Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers. Book 1. Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good/ No DJ. Half-green cloth over tan board show wear and some soiling. The binding is solid and the interior is clean. Collects January - June 1907 and includes John Wesley, Henry George, Garibaldi, Richard Cobden, Thomas Paine and John Knox. Previous owner bookplate on pastedown page.
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: The original individual volumes. Each volume usually consists of: at least a 26 page text; frequently enhanced with woodcut devices and ornaments (many designed by Samuel Warner), and portraits and pl ates; and often with ads for the products of the Roycroft Shop (furniture, brass, books, bindings, etc.); as well as some commercial ads (Pears' Soap). Some printing in red and black. 8vo. 15.5 x 20. 5 cm. Uncut. Sewn into original printed wraps, as issued. Fine condition. Hubbard (1856-1915), was a prolific writer and a tireless entrepreneur who is most famous today as the founder and guiding light of the Roycroft printing and craft shops. These were based on the Hammersmith arts and crafts complex of William Morris, but with many American and Hubbard-ian twists and turns. Until his death on t he S.S. Lusitania, he was one of the most dynamic and famous men in the world. On his first trip abroad his letters home were mostly travelogue, and they became the basis for his first magazine eff ort . He sold Putnam's the idea of putting out a brief 'Little Journey' biographical sketch on a monthly basis. Later, when he established his own print shop, he took over the whole project. He also printed and published two national opinion magazines, the 'Fra' and the 'Philistine'. He was also responsible for the famed 'A Message to Garcia'. "The graveyards are full of people the World could not do without" -- Elbert Hubbard, 'Epigrams' (1911) 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: The original individual volumes. Each volume usually consists of: at least a 26 page text; frequently enhanced with woodcut devices and ornaments (many designed by Samuel Warner), and portraits and plates; and often with ads for the products of the Roycroft Shop (furniture, brass, books, bindings, etc.); as well as some commercial ads (Pears' Soap). Some printing in red and black. 8vo. 15.5 x 20. 5 cm. Uncut. Sewn into original printed wraps, as issued. Fine condition. Hubbard (1856-1915), was a prolific writer and a tireless entrepreneur who is most famous today as the founder and guiding lig h t of the Roycroft printing and craft shops. These were based on the Hammersmith arts and crafts complex of William Morris, but with many American and Hubbard-ian twists and turns. Until his death on t he S.S. Lusitania, he was one of the most dynamic and famous men in the world. On his first trip abroad his letters home were mostly travelogue, and they became the basis for his first magazine eff ort . He sold Putnam's the idea of putting out a brief 'Little Journey' biographical sketch on a monthly basis. Later, when he established his own print shop, he took over the whole project. He also p rint ed and published two national opinion magazines, the 'Fra' and the 'Philistine'. He was also responsible for the famed 'A Message to Garcia'. "The graveyards are full of people the World could no t do without" -- Elbert Hubbard, 'Epigrams' (1911) 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: The original individual volumes. Each volume usually consists of: at least a 26 page text; frequently enhanced with woodcut devices and ornaments (many designed by Samuel Warner), and portraits and plates; and often with ads for the products of the Roycroft Shop (furniture, brass, books, bindings, etc.); as well as some commercial ads like (Pears' Soap). Some printing in red and black. 8vo. 15.5 x 20. 5 cm. Uncut. Sewn into original printed wraps, as issued. Fine condition. Hubbard (1856-1915), was a prolific writer and a tireless entrepreneur who is most famous today as the founder and guiding lig h t of the Roycroft printing and craft shops. These were based on the Hammersmith arts and crafts complex of William Morris, but with many American and Hubbard-ian twists and turns. Until his death on t he S.S. Lusitania, he was one of the most dynamic and famous men in the world. On his first trip abroad his letters home were mostly travelogue, and they became the basis for his first magazine eff ort . He sold Putnam's the idea of putting out a brief 'Little Journey' biographical sketch on a monthly basis. Later, when he established his own print shop, he took over the whole project. He also p rint ed and published two national opinion magazines, the 'Fra' and the 'Philistine'. He was also responsible for the famed 'A Message to Garcia'. "The graveyards are full of people the World could no t do without" -- Elbert Hubbard, 'Epigrams' (1911) 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: The original individual volumes. Each volume usually consists of: at least a 26 page text; frequently enhanced with woodcut devices and ornaments (many designed by Samuel Warner), and portraits and plates; and often with ads for the products of the Roycroft Shop (furniture, brass, books, bindings, etc.); as well as some commercial ads (like Pears' Soap). Some printing in red and black. 8vo. 15.5 x 20. 5 cm. Uncut. Sewn into original printed wraps, as issued. Fine condition. Hubbard (1856-1915), was a prolific writer and a tireless entrepreneur who is most famous today as the founder and guiding lig h t of the Roycroft printing and craft shops. These were based on the Hammersmith arts and crafts complex of William Morris, but with many American and Hubbard-ian twists and turns. Until his death on t he S.S. Lusitania, he was one of the most dynamic and famous men in the world. On his first trip abroad his letters home were mostly travelogue, and they became the basis for his first magazine eff ort . He sold Putnam's the idea of putting out a brief 'Little Journey' biographical sketch on a monthly basis. Later, when he established his own print shop, he took over the whole project. He also p rint ed and published two national opinion magazines, the 'Fra' and the 'Philistine'. He was also responsible for the famed 'A Message to Garcia'. "The graveyards are full of people the World could no t do without" -- Elbert Hubbard, 'Epigrams' (1911) 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: The original individual volumes. Each volume usually consists of: at least a 26 page text; frequently enhanced with woodcut devices and ornaments (many designed by Samuel Warner), and portraits and plates; and often with ads for the products of the Roycroft Shop (furniture, brass, books, bindings, etc.); as well as some commercial ads (like Pears' Soap). Some printing in red and black. 8vo. 15.5 x 20. 5 cm. Uncut. Sewn into original printed wraps, as issued. Fine condition. Hubbard (1856-1915), was a prolific writer and a tireless entrepreneur who is most famous today as the founder and guiding lig h t of the Roycroft printing and craft shops. These were based on the Hammersmith arts and crafts complex of William Morris, but with many American and Hubbard-ian twists and turns. Until his death on t he S.S. Lusitania, he was one of the most dynamic and famous men in the world. On his first trip abroad his letters home were mostly travelogue, and they became the basis for his first magazine eff ort . He sold Putnam's the idea of putting out a brief 'Little Journey' biographical sketch on a monthly basis. Later, when he established his own print shop, he took over the whole project. He also p rint ed and published two national opinion magazines, the 'Fra' and the 'Philistine'. He was also responsible for the famed 'A Message to Garcia'. "The graveyards are full of people the World could no t do without" -- Elbert Hubbard, 'Epigrams' (1911) 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Profiles of John Bright, Bradlaugh, Theodore Parker, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Hutchinson, J.J. Rrousseau. Frontis portraits of each, protected by tissue. Decoratiive, two-color title pages and decorative caps throughout text. Paper boards are browned, worn. Roycrofters ads throughout book.
Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book 11 ONLY; Brown silk bookmarker frayed and worn, sewn into the headband; Brown endpapers, usual age toning to the textblock, else clean and tight. Lightly deckled fore-edge, top edge gilt. Cloth spine with paper title paste-down; Paper boards, surface-soiled, and bumped at the corners; lightly worn spine. 169p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, edges uncut. (xii), 145-169, (7) pages. Vol. XXI, No. 6, December 1907 (McKenna 149). Includes quotations of Roussear. Wrappers chipped at edges. Tanning. stiff paper wrappers, edges uncut
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. So This Then is Little Journeys. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$13.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: WOW! Great rare find- clean and tight with wear to edges. Full Suede covers. Rough cut page ends. Shelf 243 No previous owner name, not ex library. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTO
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. The Philistine ran from 1895-1915 and was largely a journal of satire, progressive political essays, and short literary works. Hubbard said the magazine was bound in butcher paper because "There is meat inside."
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book size about 6 by 8 inches with some 169 pages. Bound in gray paper covered boards with a paper label over a white cloth spine; gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. The 'Reformers' are John Bright, John Bradlaugh, Theodore Parker, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Hutchinson, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Printed on Roycroft watermarked paper which has the feel of hand made paper. Illustrated with a full page image of each 'reformer'--no image for Anne Hutchinson. An attractive book. Many sections with drawn images containing a hand colored first letter in red. Wear through at all tips and along some edges; light chipping to spine top/bottom. A clean unmarked book with crisp pages. VERY GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: The Book Scot, mansfield, MO, U.S.A.
FARRAR.FRANCIS AND ABIGAIL. THE BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS.. ELBERT HUBBARD. 1907, 1907.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very Good +. First Edition. NO DUSTJACKET.ILLUSTRATED STORY OF THE ROYCROFTERS.22 MOUNTED PHOTOS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION HAVE STAINED THE OPPOSITE PAGES.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. White Hyacinths. The Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In full flexible tan leather with upper cover design in blind, 8vo, 162pp. (light soiling and wear to outer covers). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First printing An ex-library copy with a book plate from the Seymour School of New York City on the front paste down and with the leather back strip missing. Despite the loss the binding remains firm with the hinges tight and sound. Without a dust jacket. With an early prior owner's name (Marshall Bartholomew) and date of 1910 on the second free end page. (191) pages of text. With biographical contents for John Wesley, Henry George, Gaibaldi, Richard Cobden, Thomas Paine and John Knox.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The Book of the Roycrofters. Roycroft, 1907.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is bound in illustrated paper over hardboard with a green cloth spine. It is cracked at page 1. Contains 17 pages with a tight binding. Pages opposite the tipped in photographs are darkened. Send an e-mail for pictures.
Seller: Lion's Den, Branford, CT, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert.. SO HERE COMETH WHITE HYACINTHS.. The Roycrofters: East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Description: Illust, 7 x 4.5, limp suede, 161 pp, ex-lib (sm label on free front endpaper from Walker's Library, Riceville, Iowa -- no other markings), covers worn, rubbed, becoming unglued from pastedown, tiny piece missing front edge, spine cocked w/ two pinholes and tips torn, front inner hinge cracked, loose signature, light soiling and spotting else good. DESIGNED BY DARD HUNTER.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: small 8vo. rebacked with original paper covers, gilt on cover and spine. 190, (3) pages. Vol. XX. Includes quotations of Roussear. Wrappers chipped at edges. Tanning. Features John Wesley, Henry George, Garibaldi, Richard Cobden, Thomas Paine, and John Knox. rebacked with original paper covers, gilt on cover and spine
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Ed. VG+ in tan boards with brown cloth spine. Reformers profiled are John Bright, Bradlaugh, Theodore Parker, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Hutchinson & J.J. Rousseau, illustrated with portraits of each. Biography, Anthology, Reformers
Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mos, 169 pages, stamped half brown sheep, plain boards, t.e.g., untrimmed; spine faded a bit to lighter brown, rubbed. Ex libris Cecil W. Mercier The Reformers here are John Bright, John Bradlaugh, Theodore Parker, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Hutchinson, Jean Jacques Rousseau. With portraits. [ McKenna, 148 ].
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with light scuffing. Binding cracked but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Volume XXI. The Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: On John Bright, John Bradlaugh, Theodore Parker, Olive Cromwell, Anne Hutchinson, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Dark gray boards, smaller book, with embossed silver flower design, title and author bright on front, dark gray over cloth spine, gilt lettering very fine on spine, 169 roughcut pages. Two light thin stains down front, light wear at spine top edge, cloth bookmark. Near Very Good.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. So Here Cometh White Hyacinths. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full gray suede leather binding with embossed cover imagery. Light age-toning and edge wear to margins and spine, remains Very Good. This edition has the silver silk pastedown endpapers and includes the portrait photos of Elbert Hubbard and his wife. The contents remain fine.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Boards. Portrait plates. Most of paper covering spine has chipped away. This is an antique book hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. It is the second volume collecting the 1907 Great Reformers series. Profiles of John Bright, John Bradlaugh, Theodore Parker, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Hutchinson, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. (McKenna 147).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 68pp Exceptionally nice copy. very good, suede spine, brown paper covered boards (hardcover)
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, Elbert. The Book of the Roycrofters. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 17 pages. Includes numerous tipped in plates. A very good copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with the usual toning to the pages. No dust jacket as issued.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book cantains the 12 monthly issues of the 1907 series of Great Reformers including each frontis and advertisements of each monthly issue. Book has wear to leather spne ends and edges, 169 numbered pages, decorated edges. Penciled 4 digit number on recto of first frontis
Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. THE BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS. , 1907.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY 1907. Hardcover. Octavo, 17pp., with 22 mounted photos illustrations. (most about 2x4 inches), showing interior and exterior views of Roycroft buildings and industries, paper-covered boards with cloth spine. VG.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard ?. The Book of The Roycrofters.. , 1907.
Price: US$35.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23 by 18 cm size. 17 pages. Tipped in b/w photographic images. Two sections : Consecrated Lives and A Little Journey to East Aurora.
Seller: Ivan's Book Stall, Reading, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated. Near fine copy (rubbed areas on suede spine).
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . 1907, some markings & light wear to covers, contents clean & bright,no markings, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed in red and black on Roycrofters watermarked handmade paper. Two inserted portraits of William Morris. Rebound in quarter leather with gilt spine titling, brown paper-covered boards, titled in white. Occasional slight foxing. A very good copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: ed. hardback about very good condition in boards with a green cloth spine - there is some light staining on the front- - 190 pages - no dust jacket
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, ELBERT. THE BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS. THE ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1907.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: BOOKSTORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. MARKS ON COVER. CLOTH BOUND SPINE AND GREY BOARDS. BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS INSIDE. DATE PUBLISHED: 1907 EDITION: 17
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, Elbert. The Book of the Roycrofters. Elbert Hubbard, 1907.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 17 p. + plates. 23 cm. 12 plates with 22 b&w tipped-in illustrations. Cream cloth spine with grey paper covered boards. Small hole in upper spine and some light soiling. Worn bottom rear corner. Library blind stamp on title page and ink stamp bottom of p. 9. Occasional light soiling within. Tear at bottom of Consecrated Lives subsection title. Subsections entitled: Consecrated Lives, A Little Journey to East Aurora.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 67 Pp. Full Suede, Lettered In Gilt. Light Wear , Some Short Tears On Spine, No Marks.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Elbert Hubbard January 1907 Binding: Trade Paperback BOUND IN BROWN LIMP SUEDE
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The Book of the Roycrofters. Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Cover is shelf worn. The outer edges of the cover are slightly rubbed. Small stain on back cover board and spine, not affecting legibility. Signatures are loose, but all pages remain attached. Pages are tanned, with a few small stains on some pages, but text is legible.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The Book of the Roycrofters. Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover boards are soiled along edges, visible on top corners of pages, but not affecting legibility of text. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Pages are unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 1907, Very Good minus, no jacket as issued, 17 pages complete with 22 tipped in vintage black and white plates, Great images of Roycrofters compound, shops, work rooms, furniture and grounds of the East Aurora, New York facility. Title page and front board is 2 color design by Dard Hunter as well as design at end of text, Book is 9 inches in height by 7 inches in width, quarter bound cloth spine with brown paper over boards, some light water staining on leading edge of front board and light fading to rear board, corners lightly worn through, some cracking between some text but binding holding firm, end papers are clean with previous name on front free page, solid and presentable scarce title at a bargain price.
Seller: Pacific Coast Books, ABAA,ILAB, Gleneden Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 15 x 11.5 cm. 16 mo. Saddle-stitched pamphlets. Light rubbing to edges. No loose pages. No. 6 is misprinted as "No. 5" on cover. December 1906 to May 1907. Complete 6 book set. Volume 24.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 15 x 11.5 cm. 16 mo. Saddle-stitched pamphlets. Light rubbing to edges. No loose pages. No. 1 is misprinted as "Vol. 24, No. 6" on cover. June 1907 to November 1907. Complete 6 book set. Volume 25.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, Elbert. Little Journeys. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Full suede leather. Portrait plates. Shelf wear. Scuffing and fading to leather. Bookplate inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is a single leather-bound volume collecting 6 biographical pamphlets from previous series: Mozart, Cellini, Whistler, Mark Antony, Savonarolla, and Martin Luther. Original portrait pages complete and bound in. Limited edition handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in Very Good condition, bright gilt-stamped front cover, lightly dulled label over cloth spine chipping off in areas, edges uncut at two sides, top edges gilt. Printed on laid paper; Covering John Wesley, Henry George, Garibaldi, Richard Cobden, Thomas Paine, and John Knox; 8vo
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in VG condition with rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends, scuffing along spine, damp stain on front cover does not bleed through to text else a bright and solid copy.
Seller: JB's Book Vault, Buffalo, WY, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The Book of the Roycrofters - Consecrated Lives. Roycroft, 1907.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 17pp 12pp tipped in photographs. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. The paper used for the photograph mounts have caused toning to the pages opposite them. Scuffing and some staining to the boards.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 8"x6". Sewn wraps. All volumes in very good condition with minor shelf wear to wraps, and several have unopened pages, except Henry George which is in Fair condition. All are complete as issued with portrait pages laid in. This is a collection of 7 antique books hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. These are from the 1907 Great Reformers series (Vol. XX and XXI). (McKenna 148) Contains the following volumes: Henry George (February, 1907) (wraps split at hinge) John Knox (June, 1907) John Bright (July, 1907) Theodore Parker (September, 1907) Oliver Cromwell (October, 1907) Anne Hutchinson (November, 1907) Rousseau (December, 1907).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Health and Wealth. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1907.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front cover starting but overall a clean and presentable copy. Small spot to rear ffep with minimal bleedthrough but minimal fraying to the fragile leather overlap.
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. Book of the Roycrofters. , 1907.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed by the author on the front flyleaf- "Remember the work day to keep it holy" Decorated cloth covered boards are loosely bound; cloth at lower end of both front & back panel is damp stained, a few slots of soil, much rubbing, most of cloth at spine is worn away. Illustrations are tipped-in photographs, all present. Portrait frontispiece is loose from binding. Pages have some soil, foxing, tanning from age & handling. All, quite readable. Protected in mylar sleeve. A special book.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS. Roycroft Press, 1907.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 17 pp. Slight fading and wear to covers. Photographic prints tipped in throughout. Hinges opening about 1". Francis and Abigail Farrar relate the story. (Loc G153/1)
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Suede leather spine over tan boards. TEG. Bound in silk bookmark. Printed on fine paper which has the Roycroft watermark. Chipping to the upper spine end. Minor chip to the lower spine. Dust jacket has some sunning to the spine, 5/8" tear along with a crease to the lower, front corner. A 3/8" tear to the upper, rear edge. Minor chips to the spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 67 pages
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. WHITE HYACINTHS. Roycrofters: East Aurora, 1907.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover design, title page, initial letters and decorations by Dard Hunter. 7.5 x 5", green suede, green satin pastedowns, ribbon, 161pp. Covers sunned, front inner hinge cracked, ribbon detached and frayed, offsetting from a newspaper clipping else good. "So here then endeth White Hyacinths, being a Book of the Heart, containing thoughts that have been voiced before, but not so well." FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Title page and copyright page dated 1907. Colophon dated January 1907. This copy is VG+. Quarter suede spine with title label with beige paper covered boards and silver tiles. Spine is modestly rubbed with modest wear at ends . Boards are clean and crisp. Edges sharp. Tiles all bright. Inside is unmarked, crisp, and tightly bound. Bas-relief frontispiece with tissue guard of Morris. Black text with red accents. Scattered foxing within. Silk bookmark. TEG and deckled pages. 67pp. Very nice.
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Some page spotting, offsetting; very good to fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. The Book of the Roycrofters. , 1907.
Price: US$124.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine is with tears and showing cloth, spots on covers with smudging, graphics a little faded but readable. Inside is tight and clean. A number of black a white, add on photo, inside, missing the William Morris Room and the Ruskin Room. Rare work in this form, 17pp, hard cardboard covers, signed by the author on the second fp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Phyllis35, canyonville, OR, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The Book of the Roycrofters. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown paper over boards with design in white and orange lettering on front by Dard Hunter (DH logo) and buckrum spine mildly edgeworn and rubbed. Frontispiece, title letters and endpiece designed by Dard Hunter (DH logo). 12 pages of pasted in pictures and a total of 17 pages of text (darkened by picture pages opposite). Inside the rear flyleaf is a white pastedown sticker with Roycroft logo and the number 12495 written in ink. Back hinge has come loose from cover, otherwise a tight clean copy.
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. This Then is a William Morris Book. Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ". Being a little journey by Elbert Hubbard, & some letters, heretofore unpublished, written to his friend & fellow worker, Robert Thomson, all throwing a side-light, more or less, on the man and his times." Suede spine fraying. Covers foxed.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. WILLIAM MORRIS BOOK. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. McKenna # 155. 8'' x 5 1/4''. 67pp. Printed in two colors, red and black, on Roycroft watermarked laid paper. Photogravure of bas relief of Morris as frontispiece. Paper over boards, suede spine. Light spotting.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. THE BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS. , 1907.
Price: US$201.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: CONSECRATED YEARS. 7 in x 10 in. 17 pages beautifully illustrated with black and white tipped-in plates, photographs of Roycroft buildings. Pages opposite plates are discolored, otherwise pages are good condition. Also illustrated with color drawing on title page and again at the end of the book. Brown endpapers clean. Brown cloth spine and brown boards with title and color drawing on upper cover. Edges and corners lightly worn and bumped. Boards show some wear. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hubbard, Elbert. WHITE HYACINTHS. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, New York, 1907.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 1st.Edition, 1st. Printing 1907,Hardcover decorative boards with suede leather spine with stamped title glided , glided top stain page edge.First page of the book is the Roycrofter statement introducing the book " Here Cometh " a very ornately done page light green and pink . Two frontis plates of the author & his wife, by Gasparo .Brown hand made paper endpapers , Roycrofters applied numbered stamp at the last blank page ( # 541 ) .Deckle-edged pages and done in the best example of the Roycrofters handmade books . You may not find one better example of this important book by Hubbard . Condition : Very Fine , a complete copy with the book mark ribbon a tight copy not faded at all ( see the Images ) Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Seller: Gibbs Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. The William Morris Book (with Dustwrapper). Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1907. First Edition. Octavo, 69 pp. Quarter suede with buff boards; rare dustjacket is lettered and designed in green and red. Untrimmed pages. Apparently one blank flyleaf has been excised (there are three blank leaves prior to the frontis), else a Near Fine book, with page edge darkening only, in an About Very Good dustjacket which is with several chips and some staining, split at spine. Brown bookmark ribbon still in good order. Another one of Elbert Hubbard's unique sorties, "being a little journey by Elbert Hubbard, & some letters, heretofore unpublished, written to his friend & fellow worker, Robert Thomson, all throwing a side-light, more or less, on the man and his times. Scarce in the jacket. L-36 n
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 67 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's 3/4 morocco and marbled boards; gilt spine; t.e.g.; in tattered glassine wrapper and enclosed in publisher's velvet-lined folding box. First edition; No 51 of 203 copies on Japan Vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard. The top one inch of the rear board is sunned; otherwise a very fine copy. Some light wear and staining to the box.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 18 x 12 cm. 12mo. 163 pages. Bound in 3/4 red leather and decorative cloth with matching endpapers. 5 raised bands to the spine. Red ribbon. Double frontispiece portraits of Elbert & Alice Hubbard, plus ornamental initials, head- & tail-pieces. Gilt top foredge and spine lettering. Limited to 207 copies SIGNED by the author, Elbert Hubbard, on the limitation page this being copy 199. Rubbing to the raised bands and the edges of the spine. Previous owner's bookplate to inside front cover and on 4th page. Wrinkling to the bookplate page.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$649.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by the author on the limitation page "Of this edition of A William Morris Book there were printed but two hundred and three copies on Genuine Japan Vellum. This volume is 201 Elbert Hubbard (his signature)" The book is 3/4 leather with marble boards. Slight edgewear at corner of covers else fine.
Seller: Signedbookman, Buffalo Gove, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$799.25 + shipping
Description: Dec title page and chapter devices in color; portraits of Elbert Hubbard and wife, 7 x 4.5", 3/4 brown morocco with nicely gilt-dec spine; marbled boards, teg, 161pp, covers worn, extremities bumped & fraying, outer hinges starting, contents clean and nice. LIMITED TO 207 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD. Printed on vellum.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With engraved frontispiece portraits of Elbert and Alice Hubbard, and decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces by Dard Hunter throughout text, printed in green and white. First edition. One of 207 copies signed and numbered by Hubbard on the limitation page, this being number 158. Additionally inscribed by Elbert and his wife Alice on front flyleaf: "To our beautiful Betty with the love and blessing of Alice Hubbard / Elbert Hubbard / Dec 25th 1907." Finely bound in contemporary three-quarter brick-red morocco, with marbled boards, five raised bands to spine, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, and red ribbon. About fine, with light toning and scratching to paper on front board, a touch of rubbing to foot of spine, and light toning to page edges. Overall, an exquisite copy. White Hyacinths is a book of essays on life, which opens with the epigraph, "If I had but two loaves of bread I would sell one of them and buy White Hyacinths to feed my soul." This edition was published by the Roycrofters, a reformist group of artists and artisans who lived in an artists' colony in East Aurora, New York. Founded by Elbert Hubbard in 1895, the Roycrofters formed a major part of the American Arts and Crafts movement, which encouraged the blending of the artisanal and utilitarian, placing emphasis on the beauty as well as the value of objects. In bookbinding, this translated into the use of commissioned artists to design book covers, endpapers, and page borders. Hubbard's Roycroft Press was inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press, which produced beautiful books with elaborate decorations inspired by medieval manuscripts.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hugo, Victor. SO THIS THEN IS THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. The Roycrofters: East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Frontis portrait of Hugo, 7 x 4.75", 3/4 morocco; marbled boards, teg, 106pp, covers a bit darkened, outer hinges starting, contents nice. LIMITED TO 194 NUMBERED COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo, (8 x 5 inches). Three-quarter plum morocco, marbled boards, superb gilt decorated spine. In the original publisher's box with paper label. A truly fine copy. Printed in red and black, printed on Japan Vellum. Frontispiece is a photo of Jerome Conner's bas-relief portrait of William Morris. The book features seven letters from Morris to Robert Thompson, dealing with political matters, and the Hubbard essay describes his visit to Kelmscott House and presents much of the aesthetic rationale which resulted in the formation of the Roycrofters. A handsome production, and the book as near to perfect as one could ever hope to find. "On a High Shelf," David Ogle, OB-134-07.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. (vii), 67, (2)pp. One of 203 copies, signed by Hubbard. Frontispiece reproduction of a bas relief portrait of William Morris, executed by Jerome Conner. Between pages 20 and 21 is inserted a two-page facsimile of a letter written by Morris. A laudatory project by Hubbard, who here comments on Morris' biography, values, and writings by way of his own, including the publication of letters sent to Robert Thomson. Printed in red and black. This copy specially bound by fellow Roycrofter Harry Avery in full red morocco with sharp gilt tooling and Art Nouveau flourishes emphasized by orange leather onlays. Avery was among the first group of binders brought in by Louis Herman Kinder to establish the bindery at Roycroft, and has been described as "one of Kinder's most inventive assistants" (Head, Heart and Hand, p. 34). Avery's design reflects a tasteful restraint in the present example, which makes clever use of both boards to unite the title with the imprint and date. Pastepaper doublures and endleaves; stamp-signed by Avery on rear doublure, where also is stamped the Roycroft cipher. Fine. (McKenna 154).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3328.00 + shipping
Description: 180 x 115 mm. (7 x 4 1/2"). 161, [1] pp., [1] leaf.Designed by Dard Hunter. VERY PRETTY HONEY BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AT THE ROYCROFT BINDERY, covers with delicately tooled cornerpieces featuring curving gilt fillets, stippling, and five hyacinth blooms, raised bands, spine compartments with floral spray resembling those used in the book's decorative initials, gilt lettering, turn-ins with floral sprays at corners, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In a fine tan morocco-backed modern box lined with purple velvet. With engraved portraits of Elbert Hubbard and his wife, Alice, and with a double-page opening with woodcut white hyacinth frame designed by Dard Hunter and signed with his initials, printed in green and white, similar Hunter designs for decorative initials, headpieces, and Hubbard's device on final leaf. Printed in red and black. With original "Notice. How to open a book." laid in at front. Front free endpaper with ink inscription "To Etta / from Roland" dated 12/25/18. For the binding: Wolfe, "Louis Herman Kinder" (Bird & Bull Press, 1985), Illustration 26 (this copy). âA PRISTINE COPY. This collection of essays by the founder of the Roycrofters is a lovely product of his Arts & Crafts community in upstate New York, and it is bound by a German emigré who, in the words of the Oxford Companion to the Book, "helped create a tradition of craft binding in early 20th century America." Inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press, Hubbard (1856-1915) purchased the struggling Roycroft Printing Shop in East Aurora, New York, in 1897 and set out to launch an American Arts & Crafts movement. According to ANB, within five years, the Roycroft organization "had shops for printing and binding and for furniture, metal, and leather work; it also established training schools for the local youth in drawing, watercolor, and bookbinding. . . . Hubbard allowed free experimentation and never questioned the cost . . . . Designers and craftsmen could work out ideas and, if unsuccessful, just start over. There were never deadlines for the books or prohibitions on design motifs." Among the artisans he attracted was Louis Herman Kinder (1866-1938), a bookbinder born and trained in Leipzig. Kinder immigrated to the US in 1880 and worked in commercial binderies before joining Hubbard in East Aurora to establish a bindery for the Roycroft printers. There, the Oxford Companion tells us, he "created new binding styles, and made individual fine bindings." Kinder did not sign his work, but this volume is pictured in Wolfe's study of Kinder's bindings as an example of his fine style. Hubbard's free thinking was not confined to Arts & Crafts: the contents here are notable for his strong support for the rights of women, about which he had been educated by his wife, the noted feminist Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915). Tragically, the couple perished together in the sinking of the Lusitania. While Roycroft productions did not reach the elevated achievements of the best English private presses, Hubbard did have an important impact on American book arts: as his friend William Marion Reedy observed, "he makes lovers of books out of people who never knew books before.". FIRST EDITION. No. 47 OF 207 COPIES, all printed on Japanese vellum, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.