Message Garcia by Hubbard Elbert, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: USED Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Some staining along the top edge of the boards. Pages clean and binding tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This inspirational essay was originally published as a filler without a title in the March 1899 issue of the Philistine Magazine, which Hubbard edited. During the Spanish-American War, President McKinley entrusted an obscure lieutenant named Rowan to deliver an important message to Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia. This essay stresses the importance of initiative and hard work. This copy of ? "A Message to Garcia", by Elbert Hubbard (Fra Elbertus) was published in 1916 by The Roycrofters at East Aurora, Erie County, New York. The booklet, which is approximately 3 ¾ inches wide by 5 1/8 inches tall, contains 16 pages of text plus two photographic plates, and is bound in brown paper covers with black lettering and red decoration on front and back. The inside rear cover contains a short essay titled "Initiative" written by Hubbard, and the rear outer cover bears a Hubbard motto that reads "When put to the test, an ounce of Loyalty is worth a pound of Cleverness". The front cover has a printed message reading ? "Compliments of Cavert & Lipscomb". The booklet, whose pages are lightly tanned, is in near fine condition. The illustrations accompanying this description show the front cover, a 2-page spread showing the title page and the photographic plate frontispiece, the first page of the introductory APOLOGIA, a 2-page spread showing the last page of the APOLOGIA and the first page of A MESSAGE TO GARCIA, and a 2-page spread showing the final editorial message and the second photographic plate.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. HB NODJ, 1924, 1st edition Thus,Beige cloth lettered in Brown, small Cover stain, Minor Fox & Wear,Nice & Tight, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy in brown coves with red and black print and decorations, no other printings listed. light wear and few minor closed edge tears on couple pages.

SOFTCOVER GREEN. Condition: GOOD. W W (illustrator). FIRST. TITLE PAGE DESIGNED BY" W W " General wear, limp suede leather binding, signed, agetoned cover edges and spine, contains unclipped pages, deckled pages, good gilt lettering on cover, good gilt in endpapers, agetoned pages #32 0f 980 copies DATE PUBLISHED: 1899 EDITION: FIRST 11.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Limited Edition: "Of this edition there were printed and specially hand illumined but nine hundred and tgwentyp-five copies. This book is No. 844." Signed by Elbert Hubbard. Limp suede brown cloth. Small chip at the head of the spine, Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition. (8), iv, (9)-166, (3) pages. 22x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 50 on Japan vellum signed by Hubbard and the illuminator, Lily Ess. Portrait frontispiece of Elbert Hubbard. Raised bands, spine with gilt arabesques in floral motifs lettered in gilt. Small paper title label at bottom of clamshell box. Initial letters and upper page designs in myriad colors by Lilly Ess. MCKENNA 70. Bright, very fresh copy. Three quarter red morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine in near fine publisher original fleece-lined clamshell box.