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A WONDERFUL BOOK ON PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE. GREAT INFORMATION BY A GREAT PERSON. NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, BEAUTIFULLY MADE, TEXTURED FINISH, DESIGN AND GOLD ON FRONT, PROTECTIVE COVER IN POOR CONDITION DUE TO FRONT AND BACK ALL THAT ARE LEFT WITHOUT THE SPINE, ARTWORK VERY NICE OF HUBBARD. FRONTISPIECE IS A PICTURE OF HUBBARD ON A PHONE. PAGES INSIDE ARE THICK AND CLEAN. ABOUT 1/2 OF THE PAGES ARE LOOSE FROM THE SEWN INSIDE- BUT PAGES ARE STILL IN ORDER AND VERY NICE. BOOK IS COINED FROM A LIFE OF LOVE, LAUGHTER AND WORK, BY A MAN WHO ACHIEVED GREATLY IN LITERATURE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS. PRINTED AND MADE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOPS, IN EAST AURORA, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK STATE. PAGES HAVE ORANGE DECORATION THROUGHOUT. HUBBARD STORED UP HIS SCRAP BOOK OF OTHER MEN'S GENIUS AND DID NOT INTEND TO PUBLISH. A NICE INDEX IN THE BACK LISTS SUBJECTS. HIS NARATION ON EACH WORK IS ENLIGHTENING AND HELPS GUIDE THE READER AND HELP IN THEIR JOURNEY. HIS PHILOSOPHER BACKGROUND SHINES. Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best 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 fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE. Seller Inventory # 001442
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