Hawthorne, Heloise and Elbert Hubbard.. Contemplations Being Several Short Essays, Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings Selected From the Writings of Elbert Hubbard.. East Aurora: Roycrofters., 1902.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher's half black levant morocco and marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt spine stamping. Marbled endpapers. 4to. 120pp. Copy #20 of 100 copies on Japan vellum signed by Elbert Hubbard. Text printed in red and black. Decorative title page after 1529 design by Joanis Petit, text ornaments by Richard Kruger, gravure frontis photo portrait by H. Schervee. A very good copy with some light rubbing and edgewear to the leather covers and some browning to the front marbled boards. The front hinge is worn at the top and bottom but still very secure. The text is very good with some light soiling to the margins of a few pages. Foreign postage extra on this large book.

Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.

(Roycrofters) Hubbard (Elbert). Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays, Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings. Selected from the writings of Elbert Hubbard by Heloise Hawthorne.. 4to, [vi] 120 pages, colophon, 17 unnumbered pages of plates, 28.5cm, East Aurora, New York, The Roycrofters, 1902., 1902.

Price: US$322.94 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Number 10 of 100 copies printed on Japon vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard and specially bound. Illustrated title within red ornamental border; running title and initials in red, printed in two columns, a third column inset in most pages. All the illustrations (the Blacksmith, a Book Binder, Type-Setting, etc) except frontispiece portrait of Elbert Hubbard are photographic reproductions mounted on grey inserted leaves. Very handsome olive half morocco with marbled paper sides and endpapers, spine titled in gilt and very ornately decorated in gilt. Presentation inscription, dated 1931, otherwise a fine copy.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Hubbard, Elbert; Heloise Hubbard, ed. Contemplations, Being Several Short Essays, Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Graphic Sayings Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (Signed ). Roycrofters, East Aurora, 1902.

Price: US$1150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Folio. (10),120,(2)pp. Finely bound by the Roycrofters in half morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in red and black throughout. One of 100 signed numbered copies printed on Japan Vellum. Signed by Hubbard on the limitation page. Only a trace of wear at the corners and edges; a few spots on the upper board else a very good copy.

Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.