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HUBBARD, ELBERT. WHITE HYACINTHS. THE ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1907.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: DAMAGE TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE (MAINLY BOTTOM). DETERIORATED LIMP SUEDE LEATHER TO THE TOUCH. WRITING ON FRONT ENDPAPER. DATE PUBLISHED: 1907 EDITION: 161
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. White Hyacinths. Roycrofters, 1907.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in suede leather which is sunned, flaking on the inside edge of the front fold, and has a chip at the head of the spine. A good clean tight copy.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, 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.
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.
HUBBARD, ELBERT. WHITE HYACINTHS. THE ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1907.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOKSTORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. GOLD GILT LETTERING AND BORDERS ON SPINE. DATE PUBLISHED: 1907 EDITION: 161
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hubbard, Elbert. White Hyacinths. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 161pp. Duodecimo [18.5cm] Limp leather with yapp edges. Ex-library (with the usual markings), legitimately deaccessioned. One inch thin tear in spine with stain on front panel. Presentation bookplate to a library and embossed stamp on front free endsheet. Text block cracked at the beginning. A collection of essays varying from topics of marriage, finance and power.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, 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$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.
Hubbard, Elbert. SO HERE COMETH WHITE HYACINTHS. (Roycrofters: East Aurora, NY), 1907.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: Portraits of Elbert and wife, 7 x 4.5", 3/4 green suede; marbled boards, 161pp, covers worn and badly sunned (green suede mostly rust colored), outer hinges starting, title spine label detached but present, author spine label missing, edges of endpapers toned from leather, textblock edges spotted else a decent, decorative binding
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, 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.
Elbert Hubbard. White Hyacinths. The Roycroft Press, 1907.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1907. Condition: Fine Condition. Designed by Dard Hunter. Bound in publisher's original limp brown suede with yap edges and with the front cover stamped in blind. Photogravure frontispiece portraits of Alice and Elbert Hubbard. Top edge gilt. Silk moire endpapers on front and rear pastedown endpapers. owner's signature on front flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked fine condition 1st thus
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
HUBBARD, Elbert. [HUNTER, Dard]. White Hyacinths.. The Roycrofters, [East Aurora, 1907.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 161 [2] pp. Title page, initials, tailpieces and colophon all designed by Dard Hunter, who probably designed the cover as well. 12mo, publisher's quarter suede with gilt-lettered spine label over decorated boards. First edition. One tiny white spot to the leather spine; otherwise a fine copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
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. WHITE HYACINTHS. THE ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1907.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: MINOR DAMAGE TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE. BOOKSTORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. TORN DUST JACKET. GOLD LETTERING ON SPINE. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. DATE PUBLISHED: 1907 EDITION: 161
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, 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$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.
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.