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Hubbard, Elbert. The Book of the Roycrofters. , 1907.
Price: US$124.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine is with tears and showing cloth, spots on covers with smudging, graphics a little faded but readable. Inside is tight and clean. A number of black a white, add on photo, inside, missing the William Morris Room and the Ruskin Room. Rare work in this form, 17pp, hard cardboard covers, signed by the author on the second fp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Phyllis35, canyonville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 67 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's 3/4 morocco and marbled boards; gilt spine; t.e.g.; in tattered glassine wrapper and enclosed in publisher's velvet-lined folding box. First edition; No 51 of 203 copies on Japan Vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard. The top one inch of the rear board is sunned; otherwise a very fine copy. Some light wear and staining to the box.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$649.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by the author on the limitation page "Of this edition of A William Morris Book there were printed but two hundred and three copies on Genuine Japan Vellum. This volume is 201 Elbert Hubbard (his signature)" The book is 3/4 leather with marble boards. Slight edgewear at corner of covers else fine.
Seller: Signedbookman, Buffalo Gove, IL, 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.
Hugo, Victor. SO THIS THEN IS THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. The Roycrofters: East Aurora, NY, 1907.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Frontis portrait of Hugo, 7 x 4.75", 3/4 morocco; marbled boards, teg, 106pp, covers a bit darkened, outer hinges starting, contents nice. LIMITED TO 194 NUMBERED COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. (vii), 67, (2)pp. One of 203 copies, signed by Hubbard. Frontispiece reproduction of a bas relief portrait of William Morris, executed by Jerome Conner. Between pages 20 and 21 is inserted a two-page facsimile of a letter written by Morris. A laudatory project by Hubbard, who here comments on Morris' biography, values, and writings by way of his own, including the publication of letters sent to Robert Thomson. Printed in red and black. This copy specially bound by fellow Roycrofter Harry Avery in full red morocco with sharp gilt tooling and Art Nouveau flourishes emphasized by orange leather onlays. Avery was among the first group of binders brought in by Louis Herman Kinder to establish the bindery at Roycroft, and has been described as "one of Kinder's most inventive assistants" (Head, Heart and Hand, p. 34). Avery's design reflects a tasteful restraint in the present example, which makes clever use of both boards to unite the title with the imprint and date. Pastepaper doublures and endleaves; stamp-signed by Avery on rear doublure, where also is stamped the Roycroft cipher. Fine. (McKenna 154).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.