Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Condition: Poor. #271/720. Suede spine. Scuffs, marks and tanning to cover and edges. Rough cut pages with foxing. Foxing on pages. Inscription on front end page. Contents good.
Published by ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1908
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARD BACK GREY. Condition: GOOD. LIMITED ED. general wear to cover and spine. gold gilt lettering and lining to front cover and spine. clean green endpapers. This edition is limited 720 copies, of which this is #541. deckeling to edges. faded black ink writing to third endpage. pages are clean. DATE PUBLISHED: 1908 EDITION: LIMITED ED 142.
Published by Roycroft Shop, 1898
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. #606/700cc. Suede spine worn, but not flaking. Covers edgeworn.
Published by ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1908
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARD BACK GREY. Condition: GOOD. LIMITED ED. general wear to cover and spine. 2 diagonal 5" markings to rear cover. gold gilt lettering and lining to front cover and spine. gold gilt illustration to front cover. clean grey endpapers. black ink writing to first endpage from previous owner. This edition is limited 650 copies, of which this is #545. deckeling to edges. pages are clean. DATE PUBLISHED: 1908 EDITION: LIMITED ED 147.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hand and Brain: A Symposium of Essays on Socialism by William Morris, Grant Allen, George Bernard Shaw, Henry S. Salt, Alfred Russel Wallace and Edward Carpenter. Published by Roycroft Ers at the Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, New York, U.S.A. in 1898. Hardback book with pale green paper covered boards with tan leather spine with gilt titles. Limited Edition book number 490 of 720 copies printed. Printed on hand made Kelmscott Press paper. Book in Good condition but boards are stained and with worn edges. Some minor foxing on rear end papers. 142pp.
Published by G. Bell and Sons, London, 1914
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover in Very Good condition, small 8vo. Red stiff wrappers with titles in black, appendices, index. Wrappers lightly worn with minor loss at chipped corners, front wrapper hinge starting to crack, spine darkened, clean contents. Nice copy or true first edition (the year before the 1915 publication of the hardcover). Bookseller accession no.: 23686. Salt, 1851-1939, was an English social reformer and writer, considered by some to be the "Father of animal rights".
Published by ROYCROFTERS, NEW YORK, 1908
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Signed
HARD BACK WHITE & GREEN. Condition: GOOD. LIMITED ED. general wear to cover and spine. gold gilt lettering and lining to front cover and spine. clean green endpapers. This edition is limited 720 copies, of which this is #213. pencil writing to title page which states "file under M". The Signed Edition. book is signed by Hubbard to page after title page. deckeling to edges. faded black ink writing to third endpage. foxing to pages. DATE PUBLISHED: 1908 EDITION: LIMITED ED 142.
Published by London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1914
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red card wrappers with titles in black to the upper cover and spine and a declaration of the "Aims and Objects of the Humanitarian League" to the rear. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little minor chipping to the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with scattered foxing to the preliminary pages and the text-block edge are otherwise clean throughout and free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. A scarce collection of anti-hunting essays edited by the leading vegetarian and animal rights author Henry Stephens Salt, with a preface by his friend, fellow vegetarian and committed opponent to blood-sports, George Bernard Shaw, and including an essay by like-minded socialist thinker, poet and early gay rights activist Edward Carpenter. Published under the auspices of Salt's Humanitarian League, the collection presents itself as the first work to consider both the "humanitarian and economic objections to blood-sports", as well as encompassing a wider range of standpoints than ever before offered. This "war-time" edition in card wrappers forms the true first edition, preceding the hardcover editions of 1915 and 1917. An important pioneering philosophical and practical work by a group of notable author-activists, elucidating the various key objections to blood-sports and aiming to reform both legislation and public opinion. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London, 1915
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Edition. A scarce book with a preface by Bernard Shaw published for the Humanitarian League, an organization founded by Henry Salt and dedicated to human and animal rights. This is a most unusual and important copy of this book INSCRIBED by Shaw on the half-title page to animal rights promoter and author Phyllis Clodd, wife of prominent banker Edward Clodd, on 22 March 1917. In addition there is much material pasted in, mostly newspaper and magazine articles by Shaw on the subject covering the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns, with a few tipped in within the text. Also loosely tipped in opposite the title page is a photographic portrait postcard of Shaw with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on the verso from Shaw to Clodd dated 20 March 1917: "You should read my third article, which goes into the whole subject. It is psychologically very curious. Did you ever read an essay of mine on Sport, or have you ever thought out that subject? My second article was technical, though it was partly meant to reassure people with relatives at the front. But in the third I dealt with your position; and I should really like to know what you feel about it. G.B.S." There are a few ink notes on the articles and the endpapers that are likely in Clodd's hand. The first paragraph from a review of the book in THE SOCIALIST REVIEW, May 1915: "It is a bold venture on the part of the Humanitarian League to issue this little volume at a time when the nation is still earnestly engaged in 'Killing for Business,' and there is evidence that the book has been held back by the war, since Bernard Shaw's preface is dated a year ago. But in England the Blood Sports continue, while the Blood Business goes on amain along two great lines drawn across Europe, and only the day before that on which these lines are penned the writer passed a field in which a posse of excited barbarians were watching the hounds draw the coverts in the hope of hunting a fox to death. Probably all these people had relatives at the front, engaged on what is perhaps the less degrading occupation of the two." Front hinge is cracking with the first two blanks detached; some glue stains and foxing to first and last pages, most of text clean. Gilt on the spine faded but still readable. Good.