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Price: US$100.00 + 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. All are complete as issued with portrait pages laid in, except St. Benedict which lacks its portrait. This is a collection of 9 antique books hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. These are from the 1908 Great Teachers series (Vol. XXII and XXIII). (McKenna 165) Contains the following volumes: Moses (January, 1908) Confucius (February, 1908) Pythagoras (March, 1908) Plato (April, 1908) King Alfred (May, 1908) Friederich Froebel (June, 1908) (large closed tear to rear wrap) Thomas Arnold (August, 1908) Hypatia (October, 1908) St. Benedict (November, 1908) (lacks portrait).
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. All volumes in very good condition with minor shelf wear to wraps, and several have unopened pages. This is a collection of 10 antique books hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. This is a mostly complete 1908 run of the Philistine magazine (lacking the May and July issues). 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$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. All volumes in very good condition with minor shelf wear to wraps, and several have unopened pages. This is a collection of 12 antique books hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. This is the full 1908 run of the Philistine magazine. 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$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 6"x4.5". Sewn butcher paper wraps. All volumes in very good condition with minor shelf wear to wraps, and several have unopened pages. This is a collection of 12 antique books hand-printed by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. This is the full 1908 run of the Philistine magazine. 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.
Elbert Hubbard. The Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard. Roycrofters, East Aurora New York, 1908.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 20 volumes in large 4to on handmade deckle paper by the Roycrofters of East Aurora New York,one of thousand limited and numbered sets signed by Hubbard and including a three page manuscript of his writings, photogravures throughout, bound in a superb mint 3/4 green art nouveau arts and crafts book binding by the Roycrofters of East Aurora, Western New York state, near Buffalo. A socialist community founded by Hubbard to promote arts and crafts and to be self sufficient much on the model of Robert Owen's failed New Harmony Indiana. this is a near mint fine set of all 20 volumes unopened by all examination. crisp and fine.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.