Search Results: the philistine august 1908 by hubbard elbert

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908. Book. Fair. Magazine. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A small digest with stitched binding, measuring 4-5/8" by 6" and containing 32 internal pages of text, not including several pages of ads before and after the body of text. With primary feature by Elbert Hubbard entitled "Robert G. Ingersoll" (which opens with: "Robert G. Ingersoll opened his eyes on the eleventh day of August, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-three. He opened other people's eyes until July Twenty-first, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-nine, when he closed his own in death. He was born where most men die - in obscurity. When his mother rocked him to sleep, little did she think that in her arms lay the giant that was to be!"). Condition: In worn and soiled covers, particularly to rear cover; covers show periodic small edge chips; "Ingersoll" written by former owner to upper edge of front cover; internal text in very good condition..