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"ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAPBOOK: CONTAING THE INSPIRED & INSPIRING SELECTIONS GATHERED DURING A LIFETIME OF DISCRIMINATING READING FOR HIS OWN USE"
WRITTEN / EDITED
BY SELF SAME AUTHOR
PRINTED AND MADE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOPS, IN EAST AURORA, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK STATE.
COPYRIGHT 1923
WM. H. WISE & CO
PUBLISHERS
CURRENT OPINION BUILDING
NYC
240 PAGES
SOFTCOVER
TIED BINDING
LOOSE LEAF
SHOWS AGE COLORATION
REFERENCE WEAR
GOOD STUDY EDITION
INCLUDES INDEX OF AUTHORS
PREVIOUS OWNER INSCRIBED
"MRS W.B. STONE"
638 SOUTH POPLAR ST
SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA
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"A MESSAGE TO GARCIA: BEING A PREACHMENT"
BY ELBERT HUBBARD
(FRA ELBERTUS)
ELBERT HUBBARD II
MEMORIAL EDITION
THE HOUSE OF HUBBARD
(NANCY HUBBARD BRADY)
EAST AURORA, NEW YORK (NY)
COPYRIGHT 1974
18 PAGE
SOFTCOVER PAMPHLET
ILLUSTRATED / LINE DRAWINGS
TOPIC: COMMENTARY ON THE DAY
POLITICAL
SOCIAL REFORM
CUBAN REBELLION
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
STAPLE BINDING IS GOOD
LIGHT SOILING ON COVER
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"THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELBERT HUBBARD:
THE ROYCROFTERS"
c. 1916
PUBLISHED BY THE ROYCROFTERS
at FABRIANO, ITALY
SIGNED / LIMITED EDITION
3051 of 9983
'On Roycroft watermarked paper, made by hand, especially for the Roycrofters at Fabriano, Italy.'
Burlap backed boards;
Photo frontis of Hubbard with tissue-guard.
Gilt textblock top edge.
Deckled bottom & fore-edge.
Mild water curling & staining bottom edge.
Spine has suffered wear
176 pages
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FYI
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin Soap Company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Early life
Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois, to Silas Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read on June 09, 1856. In the fall of 1855, his parents had relocated to Bloomington from Buffalo, New York, where his father had a medical practice. Finding it difficult to settle in Bloomington—mainly due to the presence of several already established doctors—Silas moved his family to Hudson, Illinois the following year. Nicknamed "Bertie" by his family, Elbert had two older siblings: Charlie, who was largely bed-ridden after a fall when he was young, and Hannah Frances, nicknamed "Frank" like her mother. Charlie died at the age of nine, when Elbert was three-and-a-half. Elbert also had three younger sisters who were named Mary, Anna Miranda, and Honor.
The Hubbard children attended the local public school, a small building with two rooms that overlooked the graveyard. Thirty years later, Elbert described his schooling days as "splendid" and "tinged with no trace of blue.... I had no ambitions then—I was sure that some day I could spell down the school, propound a problem in fractions that would puzzle the teacher, and play checkers in a way that would cause my name to be known throughout the entire township." Mary would remember her older brother's role as the school troublemaker, noting that he "annoyed his teachers... occasionally by roaring inappropriately when his too-responsive sense of humor was tickled."
Elbert's first business venture was selling Larkin soap products, a career which eventually brought him to Buffalo, New York. His innovations for Larkin included premiums and "leave on trial".
Religious and political beliefs
I am an Anarchist. All good men are Anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are Anarchists. Jesus was an Anarchist.
Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things p.147
Hubbard described himself as an anarchist and a socialist. He believed in social, economic, domestic, political, mental and spiritual freedom. In A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things (1901), Hubbard explained his Credo by writing "I believe John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Leo Tolstoy to be Prophets of God, and they should rank in mental reach and spiritual insight with Elijah, Hosea, Ezekiel and Isaiah."
Hubbard wrote a critique of war, law and government in the booklet Jesus Was An Anarchist (1910). Originally published as The Better Part in A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things, Ernest Howard Crosby described Hubbard's essay as "The best thing Elbert ever wrote."
Roycroft
His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had founded in collaboration with his first wife Bertha Crawford Hubbard, the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris's Kelmscott Press. (Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops".)
Hubbard edited and published two magazines, The Philistine and |