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Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora
by Shay, Felix
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: William H. Wise & Co., 1926. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Denslow, W.W.. New York: William H. Wise, 1926. First Edition. Illustrations and decorations by W.W. Denslow. Octavo, 553 pp., tan cloth. Corners bumped, a bit of shelfwear, small bit of lower left corner of paper spine label missing, not affecting letters. A handsome copy, better than very good. An honoring biographical treatment of Elbert Hubbard, noted American author and publisher. In 1895 Hubbard founded an artist colony in East Aurora, N.Y., and subsequently founded there his Roycroft Press, with which he emulated William Morris's idealistic experiment in fine books and hand craftsmanship. Editor of the Philistine magazine and author of the A Message to Garcia (1899), Hubbard - who perished in the submarine sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 - was an American classic personality type, an advocate of and symbol for duty, efficiency, and Yankee "rugged individualism". Saturated with appealing artwork - cartoons and decoration - by W.W. Denslow, illustrator of the true first edition of L. Frank Baums's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L19n
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000272
- Title
- Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora
- Author
- Shay, Felix
- Illustrator
- Denslow, W.W.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William H. Wise & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Pages
- 553
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- publishing, biography, art, arts, crafts, Denslow, illustrations, History Editors, Journalists, Publishers", General, Historical, "Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliographic; Biography;
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
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