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Tavares, FL: SPS Publications. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. Faintest scuffing to covers from shelving. ; Sourced from personal correspondence, records, and interviews with those involved with Roycroft, this is a biography of both Elbert and Alice Hubbard. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded The Roycroft Shops, based on his version of the European Arts and Crafts movement. Roycroft ultimately became an artisan community based on hand crafts and publishing, with Elbert writing and lecturing to capitalize the business. Hubbard's second wife Alice Hubbard (1861-1915) was profoundly influential in Elbert's pursuits, wrote books that Roycroft published, and directed and managed much of the business of Roycroft. This book covers both positives and negatives in the Hubbard's mutually-supportive relationship, as they lived and worked together before their deaths in the 1915 sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. Foreword by Elbert "Bert" Hubbard II, son of Elbert… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1994. Stiff wraps. 3/8" scratch and price sticker to rear cover.; Brandt (Rembrandt) Steele (1870-1965) was an artistic polymath who applied his design talents in and around Indianapolis, IN. Returning from his late 19th Century studies in France and Germany, Steele brought the European Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetics to his work in architecture, interior design, art glass windows, pottery, architectural terra cotta, cemetery monuments, frescos, metalwork, and furniture. Son of famed Hoosier Group painter T. C. (Theodore Clement) Steele, Brandt forged his own style in the decorative arts and did not follow the stylistic path of his father. With Notes on the text, an illustrated exhibition catalog, and Steel's life chronology. Color photographs of Steele's various works. Printed in Indianapolis, IN by Hilltop Press, which I can personally attest was not located on a hilltop. Bound in color… Read More

Kirkwood, Missouri: The Printery. Fine with no dust jacket. 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Slightest rubbing to tail corners.; "Vincent Starrett was one of the most civilized and versatile literary figures of the twentieth century. Upon his death on January 4, 1974, Michael Murphy collected these 15 distinguished tributes to Starrett’s life and work. Contributors include Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley, Charles Honce, and August Derleth. Robert G. Little’s charcoal portrait of Starrett, the last portrait taken from life, is reproduced as a frontispiece." In total, 15 contributions and entries. Frontis printed in green. Paginated 42,[2],[2 blank]. Number 221B of 225 copies, all copies being numbered 221B, the address of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson on Baker Street, London. Vincent Starrett was an avid enthusiast of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson characters. Starrett was a prominent member of the Baker Street Irregulars, the world's first… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1893. First American Edition. Hardcover. Overall wear to spine with bumped ends and residue from removal of a library label, wear to corners and edges, small remanant of a laid down library pocket on the rear endpaper, and "Withdrawn" stamps to front pastedown and head of text block.; Eyre Crowe's account of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1892-1893 travels in the US. Crowe, a skilled British painter, served as Thackeray's secretary for the trip and recorded their journeys in both text and drawings. The result was a view of US life as rendered by a truly fascinated Englishman. Crowe recorded the proceedings of Congress, hospitality in the Southern states, slave markets, Boston, sledding, Baltimore, Thackeray's lectures, and all manner of daily doings. As a painter his topic matter tilted heavily toward social realism, and he maintained this approach in documenting the American life he observed. Crowe… Read More