Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Fra Elbertus & Elbert Hubbard. The City of Tagaste. Roycrofters, 1900.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard on limitation page. Limited 1st edition 827/940 . 1/2 leather boards, deteriorated, little of the leather remains, except partial spine interior good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Fra Elbertus & Elbert Hubbard. The City of Tagaste. Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1900.
Price: US$65.95 + shipping
Description: Large hardcover with board covers and 3/4 leather suede tips and spine. Much wear to the corners and spine tips. Hand made pages are wavy. This Limited Edition of hand illumined copies of 940 is signed by Elbert Hubbard on Limited page. This is copy #1. Also signed by the illustrator, Harriet Robarger. 10.25x8.25 with 21 pp.
Seller: Kazoo Books LLC, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
Fra Elbertus (Elbert Hubbard). The City of Tagaste. Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited First Edition, No. 393 of 940 copies SIGNED by Hubbard and Minnie Gardner, who hand-illumined colophon page and Roycrofters logo at end of; 4to, three-quarter suede with gray boards and leather title piece on spine; good+ (suede faded and worn; waterstain on top edge of rear board; bodies of six small bugs adhered to suede on top corner of rear board; two stains to spine; letter title piece on spine worn and rubbed; owner's name penciled on first blank page; crinkle at bottom edge of frontis portrait of Hubbard, a tipped-in photogravure on onionskin; soiling to limitation and half-title pages; top corner of pp7-8 torn off; owner's name and date in pencil on bottom margin of p21; pages toning); 22pp.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The City of Tagaste. Roycroft Press, East Aurora, NY, 1900.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. Pp. [viii] 21 [2]. One of 940 copies specially hand illumined, and SIGNED BY ELBET HUBBARD AND BY THE ILLUMINATOR, HARRIET ROBARGE. Two pages framed with illuminated foliage. Printed on thick wove paper with Roycroft watermark. A few pages show light foxing just along the gutter, else internally fine. Half suede and plain boards, titled in gilt, lightly soiled, and quite worn at extremities. A good to very good copy.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illumination; This edition is limited to 940 signed copies - this is copy 162. Tthe book has been hand illuminated by Minnie Gardner. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket and the box. The book has a tan quarter suede leather binding (leather spine and corners) with a leather spine label, gilt lettering on the spine and front cover and what looks like black blotter paper boards. The book covers have noticeable rubbing and wear. There are a couple of small chips of leather removed, and spots of the sued has ground-in finger dirt and rubbing. There are spots of discoloration to both front and rear covers of the book. The endpapers are the same black blotter paper (it might be handmade paper). The text pages are thick, creamy handmade paper with at least two Roycrofters watermarks. There is a tipped on photo of Elbert Hubbard on the frontispiece. There is a previous owner's ink stamped nate and address on the first free page. Several of the text pages have spots of foxing. "His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had initiated in collaboration with his first wife Bertha Crawford Hubbard, the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops"." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. THE CITY OF TAGASTE. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. McKenna # 57. 10 1/8'' x 8''. 21pp. Edition limited to 940 copies printed on Roycroft handmade paper and bound in 3/4 suede. This is copy number 322. The illumination is two hand colored borders and one tailpiece designed by Louis Rhead. Signed by the illuminator, Harriet Robarge ; also signed Elbert Hubbard. Suede is worn. Waterstaining to covers, some soiling interior.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$157.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #282 Of 940 Copies On Handmade Watermarked Paper.Signed By Hubbard And The Illustrator Harriet Robarge. This Copy With Special Roycroft Binding Of Quarter Leather (Not Suede) Over Paper Covered Boards, With A Complex Design Repeated Twice On The Leather On The Front Cover And Twice On The Leather On The Rear Cover, And With The Embossed Short Title On The Spine With A Design Above And Repeated Below The Title; The Endpapers Are The Same Paper As The Outer Covers. I Have Not Seen Another Example Of This Binding. Top Edge Gilt, Other Edges Deckled. Leather Worn, Small Losses At Top And Bottom Of Spine, Some Surface Peeling To Leather But Now Reconditioned.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Elbert Hubbard. The City of Tagaste. Roycrofters, 1900.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #359/950cc. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and by Harriet Robarge, who illuminated the book. Some shelfwear.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. THE CITY OF TAGASTE. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover. McKenna # 57. 10 1/8'' x 8''. 21pp. Edition limited to 940 copies printed on Roycroft handmade paper and bound in 3/4 suede. This is copy number 688. The illumination is two hand colored borders and one tailpiece designed by Louis Rhead. Signed by the illuminator, Anna Paine ; also signed Elbert Hubbard. Suede is worn and rubbed, with some loss at bottom of spine.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$206.12 + shipping
Description: Elbert Hubbard, here writing in the guise of ?Fra Elbertus?, was the president of the Roycrofters, a semi-communal society which became renowned as the leading Arts and Crafts press in the United States. Hubbard (1856-1914) had met William Morris in London in 1890, and, greatly impressed by him, set up his own press along the lines of Kelmscott. These two essays, the first a satire, Tagaste (an ancient Roman colony in what is now Algeria), a metaphor for New York, and the second a less obtuse criticism of capitalist society, typify the Roycrofters? scorn for everything factory-made, and for the cheapening of knowledge. Small 4to. (8)+21+(3)pp, incl. photogravure portrait frontis and decorative hand-coloured borders and colophon. Original boards, rebacked with recent calf spine. One of 940 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, this copy signed by the author and by the illustrator, Minnie Gardner, with her colour monogram. Gavin Stamp?s copy.
Seller: Hugh Pagan Limited, Brockenhurst, HANTS, United Kingdom
Elbert Hubbard. The City of Tagaste, and a Dream and a Prophecy. Roycrofters, 1900.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #148/900cc, signed by Hubbard, and the illuminator Harriet Robarge. Includes a typewritten letter signed by Hubbard. 3/4 suede binding. Covers worn, but in good shape.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: numbered copy #757 of 940 copies, specially hand illumined and signed by Harriet Robarge; also signed by Elbert Hubbard
Seller: Pilchuck Books, Everett, WA, U.S.A.