1924, ISBN: b70e3d1c7bacf6c89e3379828492732f

1924. hard. Very Good. Original 1924 Printing of Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous People American Authors by Elbert Hubbard See Photo Gallery Printing Location: G.P. Putnam&#… Altro …

1924. hard. Very Good. Original 1924 Printing of Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous People American Authors by Elbert Hubbard See Photo Gallery Printing Location: G.P. Putnam's Son, New York. Date and Numbering: Reprinted in 1924, from original print in 1896. Size and Page Count: 4.5 X 7 Tall, app. 388 pages Condition: Very good, binding tight, pages clean, covers with small stains. Illustrations Information: 17 engravings and sketches of the great men and their homes. -------An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher, or historian------ Contains: Chapters on such great men as Ralph W. Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry W. Longfellow and others. From the Foreward: They are gone -writer and subject- gone. The dust of Emerson rests in Sleepy Hollow : a great unhewn bowlder marks the spot. He died in 1882; Curtis followed ten years later. But their works live after them: for beautiful lives and great thoughts endure. They make that sweet minor chord in the choir invisible, whose music is the gladness of the world. Curtis was in his twenty-ninth year when wrote this sketch; Emerson was fifty-his fame secure. No living writer, no matter how wrichly gifted, could write so precious a monograph as this on the same theme; 't would lack that quaint old flavor and fragrance, as of lavender and thyme. -E.H. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 &ndash; May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia . He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania , which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. - Wikipedia, 1924, 3<