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[004279] . ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK, Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During A Life Time of Discriminating Reading For His Own Use. ill. Photographs. New York City: Wm. H. Wise & Co. Roycroft Distributors,, 1923. Size: Approx. 8 1/2 " x 10 3/4". Roycrofters. Very Good "When Elbert Hubbard was storing up in his Scrap Book the fruits of other men's genius, he did not contemplate a volume for publication. He was merely gathering spiritual provisions for his own refreshment and delectation. To glance at the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued the quest, into what scented rose gardens of Poetry, and up what steep slopes of Thought." 228 pp. plus Index of Subjects (11 pp.). Includes photographs of the Roycroft Chapel, Roycroft Inn, Elbert Hubbard and Elbert Hubbard II, "Chief of Roycrofters". The different "selections" are artistically started with a orange vignette-a decorative first letter of the new paragraph, which makes the reading of it very clean and clear. Brown "linen-like" covers. Bound at left side with ribbon through 3-holes-like a scrapbook. Very Good condition. Inside on front endpapers, a "sheet" on each page with advertisements? for Hubbard's works: One on ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK and other LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT. They were scotch-taped to the endpapers and are loose, so there is scotch tape "residue". They could be retaped to cover it up. Not bad. On frontispiece page with photograph of Hubbard, watermark at top edge, at widest part, down 1/4". Not close to portrait, Otherwise the interior is Very Good. $20.00

[001850] Hubbard, Elbert.. Little Journey to the Home of Robert G. Ingersoll.. 1930. Very Good+ / Very Good-. tiny holes at hinge-paper loosening or chewed? otherwise book is Near Fine. DJ spine faded, chipping at top back edge. $12.50