Description: "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard published by The Roycrofters 1928. The businessmen include: Robert Owen, John J. Astor, Andrew Carnegie, George Peabody and nine more. See scan of table of contents. With 12 portraits. Printed in two colors, with designs by Dard Hunter. Volume 11 435 pages. Printed on high quality paper. Elbert Hubbard perished with his wife, Alice, in 1915 when German torpedoes sank "The Lusitania". It was a major cause on the United States entering the First World War against Germany. At the time Germany warned Americans not to sail on the Lusitania, the sister ship to the Titanic, because their spys had discovered the ship was carrying weapons of war. The British denied this but many decades later it was discovered it was in fact carrying explosives against international law. This book is selling on other sites for $50.00 and more in this great condition. Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters.
Price: 29.95 USD
Location: Huntingtown, Maryland
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: United States
Signed: No
Publisher: William H. Wise
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Year Printed: 1928
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: various
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Region: World wide
Personalized: No
Topic: Classics
Character Family: none
