Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 600 copies of which this is no. 48, signed by Elbert Hubbard. 72 p. 24 cm. Beige cloth spine with paper covered boards. Corners worn, some wear to edges, some soiling to boards. Ink stamp on front pastedown. Much foxing.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: 9.25 x 6.25, cloth backed gilt lettered boards, extremities a bit worn, front cover stained, covers soiled, hinges loose, pp heavily foxed, old ink inscription from previous owner on front blank. LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR (with signature bleeding onto next pp).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Publisher's original beige cloth spine, gray boards. The rare first publication by Roycroft Press, #538 of 600 Copies, Presentation Copy: "For Elizabeth A. Harter, with the kindly greetings of Elbert Hubbard," written just below the hand-numbered limitation paragraph at front. Stark production with intricate initials, typeset in the tradition of the Venetian, as per colophon, "with no power save that of human muscle, by Harry P. Taber." Cloth with age-soiling, corners bumped, occasional light brown-toning, but a nice copy of the scarce first Roycroft title, and as such, an early Presentation by its founder.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4888.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 72, (ii)pp. One of twelve copies printed on Japan paper. Each page has a large decorated initial lettering the style of William Morris. Title-page and colophon printed in red and black. This was the first book of the Press and took Hubbard and his partner, Harry Taber, four months to complete. The colophon states that it was printed "with no power save that of human muscle," and expresses a "Thank God!" for its completion. A scarce book and rarely seen in such good condition. Corners rubbed, minor soiling, else a lovely copy in linen-backed antique boards. Inscribed on the colophon "with kindly greetings from Elbert Hubbard." Bookplate. (McKenna 8).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.