HUBBARD, ELBERT; HUBBARD, ELBERT - Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Lifetime of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use 1923

New York City: William H. Wise, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Leather binding, the first edition, 1923 in the Roycroft style. Every copy that we have seen of this book with the leather covers has some wear. The wear is mild on this copy. A very nice copy. Binding has gentle overall wear and the upper right hand corner of the suede leather cover is torn about 3/4 inch. Gift inscription from"Audrey" to "Helen", a quote from Henry Van Dyke on the free front endpaper..Contents otherwise clean and tight. "A vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. "; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 228 pages. Good .