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New York, NY: William H. Wise. Fine. 1929. Reprint. Broadside. Some leaves have slight binding perforations at the left edge.; Twelve of Elbert Hubbard's mottos, or "epigrams," as he would sometimes call them. Each motto printed in an Arts and Crafts style: text within a graphic frame with decorative borders, some styled after similar borders by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Most have decorative capitals, are printed in black and red text, and the Roycroft cross-and-orb device is below the text. The mottos are thus: 1. I wish to be simple, honest, frank - natural, clean in mind and body, unaffected - ready to say "I do not know," if so it be - to meet all men on an absolute equality - to face any obstacle and meet any difficulty unabashed and unafraid - to cultivate the hospitable mind and the receptive heart. 2. The Mintage Of Wisdom Is To Know That Rest Is Rust And That Real Life Is In Love, Laughter And Work. 3. If You Want Work Well Done, Select A Busy… Read More

Oneonta, NY: Round House Press. Fine with no dust jacket. c.1987. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Print. Seven art prints from blocks and plates, some with letterpress text over-printed on the image. All are from Round House Press, the imprint of the collegiate printing lab of Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Founded in the 1980s, the press issues letterpress books, broadsides, and art prints from wood block, linoleum block, and intaglio collagraphy. The seven prints are as follows: Print 1. Quotation about war, by Dalton Trumbo, noted screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. From Dalton's Johnny Got His Gun, written in 1939: "To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn't fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet secret. They knew that if all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers."… Read More