Little Journeys To the Homes Of the Great

New York; East Aurora: Wise; Roycroft Shops, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Memorial edition, tan embossed cloth with paper spine labels, in printed 'oatmeal' dust jackets, 15 volumes total, including the Guide to the Little Journeys, all absolutely fine in fine dust jackets, amazing condition.

New York: The Roycrofters, 1914. Memorial Edition. Leather. Very Good -. Illustrated. Complete 14 volume set. Bound in full brown leather with embossed, illustrated front covers and spine. 182 biographies, beautifully printed on Roycroft water-marked paper. Handsome typography. Well-proportioned margins. Nearly illustrations in 14 volumes. Gilt top edges. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. Rough-cut pages.… Read more about this item

William H. Wise & Co, 1928-01-01. Leather Bound. Good. 16x8x6. NOTE: Incomplete set of 12 of the 14 volumes, with Volumes I and II missing. This edition has dark brown tooled leather bindings with embossed and decorated covers, and top edges gilt (please see photographs). Owner's vintage bookplates inside covers, else unmarked. Spots of rubbing wear on raised… Read more about this item

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Co, 1928. Later reprint. Fine/Near Fine. The books are all in fine condition A previous owner has left a discreet ink stamped name on the ffep of each volume, but otherwise there are no marks or damage at all All volumes have their original dust jackets in near fine condition, with just some… Read more about this item

East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters and Wm. W. Wise & Co, 1928. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Memorial Edition.. A beautiful, complete set in their original dust jackets. Clean flexible brown faux leather boards with intricate gold stamped decorative title box on covers and spines. Special inscription page on Volume I only + standard title page. Decorative Inscription Page specifies "for… Read more about this item

East Aurora: The Roycrofters. Near Fine. 1928. Hardcover. 15 volumes; 8vo; tan cloth, paper spine labels. Some age toning to the labels on six volumes, otherwise very crisp, with some pages unopened. Elbert Hubbard (b. 1856), founded the Roycroft Press in 1893 at East Aurora, modeled after the Arts & Crafts style of William Morris and his… Read more about this item

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Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1928. Toghether, fifteen octavo volumes in original tan buckram in Arts & Crafts style, each with paper spine label (but for "Little Journeys Guide Book," which has printed title to spine cloth). Faint shadows to paper labels from die-cut dustjackets (the jackets now lacking); occasional dusting and/or fading to upper edges of text blocks, but… Read more about this item

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover 1926 Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Blind stamped decoration on front of brown leatherette flexible cover, clean, lightly wrinkled near lower edge; slight wear to extremities; sewn binding tight and solid; illustrated title page.… Read more about this item

New York : W.H. Wise & co, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copies in the original title-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 13 volumes, frontispieces, portraits. Subject; Biography.

Aurora, New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co, 1928. First Edition, Memorial Edition. Hardcover. Octavos, Fifteen Volumes. In Very Good minus condition with Good Dust Jackets. Spines are brown with black lettering. Head edge is gilt. Dust jackets have shelf wear, closed tears of varying lengths along the edges, and some folding. Volume III Dust jacket has an open… Read more about this item

New York: Wm. Wise & Co, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Memorial edition. Volume XIV only. 357pp, [liv] index. Illustrated in black and white. Decoratively embossed leathercovered boards with attached ribbon bookmark. Very good with owner signatures on the front free pastedown and another on a blank preliminary, some pages unopened, and the leather worn along the edges of… Read more about this item

NY: WM. H. WISE & CO., 1926 Book. Good. Hardcover. TITLE: LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT: GUIDE BOOK By ELBERT HUBBARD 1926 AUTHOR: ELBERT HUBBARD PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: WM. H. WISE & CO., NY 1926 EDITION: First Edition CATEGORY: Rare, Education BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: BLACK CONDITION:… Read more about this item

NY: Wise. VG on average (see notes). 1916. later issue. hardcover. 8vo . Memorial Edition, 14 Volumes Complete. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Dark brown, embossed leatherette cloth, top edge gilt. The gilt titles don't show up well on this set, but the books are in nice shape, most retaining some crispness. In fact, there are 5 volumes that are unopened:… Read more about this item

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.  Physical description; 203 pages. Subjects; Hubbard, Elbert, -- (1856-1915). -- Little journeys to the homes of the… Read more about this item

CollectibleLikeNew. Excellent condition. No dust jacket. Hardcover .

The Roycrofters, 1916. leather_bound. Good. 12x12x7. Complete set of 14 leather-bound volumes published 1916 by The Roycrofters. All volumes with moderate wear to edges and corners. All volumes with deckle edge pages and gilt top edges. No text markings noted on any of the 14 volumes, but Volume 14 has small punctures on a few pages. Many volumes… Read more about this item

Cleveland: World Publishing Company. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint Used. H Hardcover. Good+. 346pp. Tan cloth, paper spine label. Photographic endpapers. Illustrations. Good+, some staining to top edge, small chip and some soiling to spine label, some soiling to boards. Light pencil ticks here and there. Dore, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens etc.

G P Putnam's Sons, 1899. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. The inside story of the painter, fun to read Scarce little book 4 1/2 X 7". From Britannica: Joshua Reynolds, in full Sir Joshua Reynolds, (born July 16, 1723,Plympton, Devon, England-died February 23, 1792, London), portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic… Read more about this item

William H Wise & Co 1928. This volume only, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but secondhand; Frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.