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The Last Ride by Browning, Robert - 1900

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The Last Ride by Browning, Robert - 1900

The Last Ride

by Browning, Robert

  • Used
  • Hardcover
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. Fattey, Elgie. Octavo. 8ff., frenchfold. One of 940 copies, signed by Elbert Hubbard and by Elgie Fattey, the illuminator. Illustrated throughout with hand-illuminated Art Nouveau borders. Arguably the most handsome book produced by the Roycrofters. Uniform offsetting to front endleaves from silk paste-downs, else fine in full vellum, with yapp edges and all four linen ties. Housed in trifold case.

  • Bookseller Bromer Booksellers US (US)
  • Illustrator Fattey, Elgie
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Roycroft Press
  • Place of Publication East Aurora
  • Date Published 1900

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THE LAST RIDE

by Browning, Robert

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Good Plus
Edition
Limited edition
Binding
Hardcover
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1900. Limited edition. Flexible boards. Good Plus. Limited edition. Flexible boards. McKenna # 59. 7 3/4" x 5 /34". 10pp. # 525 of a limited edition of 940, printed on Roycroft hand-made paper, SIGNED BY HUBBARD. French folded. Each stanza of the poem has beautifully decorated borders that have been hand-colored. Bound in full vellum with cloth ties. Satin paste-downs. Though the vellum is very clean and nice there are four brown spots on front cover. Toning and foxing to endpapers. Tie ends are torn, and are not long enough to tie together; cover is therefore bowed.
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THE LAST RIDE

by Browning, Robert

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
Limited edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1900. Limited edition. Flexible boards. Good. Limited edition. Flexible boards. McKenna # 59. 7 3/4" x 5 /34". 10pp. # 556 of a limited edition of 940, printed on Roycroft hand-made paper, SIGNED BY HUBBARD. French folded. Each stanza of the poem has beautifully decorated borders that have been hand-colored. Signed by the illuminator Loretta Hubbs. Bound in full vellum with cloth ties. Satin paste-downs. Vellum is soiled and bowed. Ties are present but worn. Endpapers are browned, foxing throughout. Ownership signiture on fly leaf in pencil.
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The Last Ride

by Browning, Robert

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
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Ballston Lake, New York, United States
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East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters. Original vellum with the ties snaking through it as designed. Limited Edition: No. 289 of 940 hand-illumined copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and Elgie Fattey, who did the hand-illumination. Laid in is the slip with the publisher's warning: "Do not cut the leaves of this book. It is printed on one side of the paper only, after the Japanese manner, and to cut the leaves is to spoil your volume." The leaves are uncut. Near Fine. Remarkable condition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1900.
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The Last Ride

by Browning, Robert

  • Used
  • Signed
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. Kinder, Louis. Octavo. 8ff., frenchfold. One of twenty-five (i.e., twenty-one) copies printed on vellum. Signed on the colophon by Elbert Hubbard, and with an inscription by the illuminator, Frances Carmody. Designed by Samuel Warner. Illustrated throughout with hand-illumined art nouveau borders. The Last Ride was one of only two or three books printed on pure vellum by the Roycrofters. The present copy features a magnificent binding by Louis Kinder of turquoise levant with intersecting brown and black morocco onlays, bordered in gilt, sweeping across both covers, and a gilt tooled fern spray radiating out from the center, against a backdrop of gilt-tooled stars. Elaborately tooled vellum doublures carry the fern motif inside, where they form a horizontal plane that divides the doublures into four sections, decorated with gilt strapwork, at the center of which are four tooled devices: a pair of clasped hands, a pair of hearts pierced by an arrow, an hourglass… Read More
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