Offered here is a wonderful antiquarian book: "Alice's Adventures In Cambridge", by R. C. Evarts, illustrated by E. L. Barron, The Harvard Lampoon, 1913. Paper covered boards in GREAT condition but for missing paper on the top 1/2 of the pine. Bumps at the corners and spine heel. Just wonderful inside! "Genial hijinks from the staff of the Harvard Lampoon using the popular theme of Alice in Wonderland, and illustrated with amusing Tenniel-like pen and ink drawings. One might suppose that such undergraduate buffoonery would be unintelligible to people unfamiliar with Harvard or Cambridge, but, although there is certainly a certain amount of humor pertaining to Harvard of the day, there is also quite a bit which is applicable to college and scholarly life in general -the chapter on the Student Council Meeting, for instance, will be readily recognizable to almost everyone..."
Offered here is a vintage Roycrofter's First Edition book "Doctors A Satire In Four Seizures", Elbert Hubbard, Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1908. First edition. 8vo. 123pp., untrimmed. It is bound in extremely supple crimson red/maroon suede-backed puce paper-covered boards, gilt top ep, leather which extends over the covers by a half inch or so - very tattered. Illustrated with 12 satirical cartoons by Bert Barnes, printed in red and black on butcher paper. Bound in full brown suede with deeply impressed lettering on both covers, top edges gilt, with silk doublures. Printed throughout in orange and black.
Offered here is a vintage Roycrofters related book "Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book", Elbert Hubbard - his photo as the frontis, tie wraps. New York:, Wm. H. Wise & Co.; Roycroft Distributors, 1923.; Binding Wraps; Hubbards collection of literature, prose, quotations, letters, and essays from great men and women. Covering an array of subjects: Business; Law; Slavery; Conversation; Craftmanship; Music; Ancestry; Good & Evil; Flowers; Life; Friendship; Humanity; Civil War, etc. As written by the great thinkers, writers and geniuses of all time: "Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ingnorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment". Anne Besant; "The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men". Emerson; "It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it, and to claim for it the respect it deserves". Dickens; "It suffices not that beauty should keep solitary festival in life; it has to become a festival of every day". Materlinck; "No man is worht his salt wo is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well being, to risk his life, in a great cause". Theodore Roosevelt; and many others from: Samuel Johnson; Washington Irving; George Washington letter to his wife); :The Indians," by Charles Sprague; Gibbon; Alfred Noyes; Shelley; Anatole France; George Eliot; Michaelangelo; Kipling; Thomas Nelson Page; Oscar Wilde; Walt Whitman; Goethe; Israel Zangwill; Robert Louis Stevenson; Darwin; Daniel Webster, etc.. Red title panel and decoration below, cloth over paper under tie. Portrait of Hubbard in his workshop, frontispiece. Two color title page. Each first letter of quote, essay, prose, philosophy, etc. illuminated. Index of Subjects, Index of Authors, Index of Poetry to rear. Roycrofters colophon to last page. Very clean, tightly bound. Beautiful book of great literature. 228 pp, plus indexes, sm 4 to - minor rub at the corners - tiny tear in cloth at spine heel.
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