Lot of Two Books From the Roycroft Press, Both Signed By Elbert Hubbard.... (Total: 2 Items)

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Lot of Two Books From the Roycroft Press, Both Signed By Elbert Hubbard.

Both books published in East Aurora, New York by the Roycroft Shop, helmed by Elbert Hubbard. The two titles are: Thomas de Quincey. Confessions of an Opium-Eater. Published in 1898. Edition limited to 925 copies, of which this is number 650, signed by Hubbard. Octavo. 188 pages. Quarter bound in green Roycroft suede over brownish-gray paper boards. Gilt label to spine and gilt title to front board. Endpapers match paper on boards. Pages unopened. Contents fine, but suede to spine has faded to a light brown. A near fine copy. [and:] [Elbert Hubbard] Fra Elbertus. So Here Then Are the Preachments Entitled 'The City of Tagaste,' and 'A Dream and a Prophecy.' Published in 1900. Edition limited to 940 copies, of which this is number 61, signed by Hubbard. Quarto. 21 pages. "Hand-illumined" by Anna Paine. Handmade paper. Portrait frontispiece. In addition to Hubbard's signature on the limitation page, he has also inscribed the book to a friend on a preliminary blank page. Half bound in brown Roycroft suede over gilt-stamped slate gray paper boards. Gilt label to spine. Gray endpapers. Minor fading and wear to spine ends. Some foxing to frontispiece. Generally, very good or better, in a fine plain light gray dust wrapper.

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2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)

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October, 2008

16th-18th Thursday-Saturday

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