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Sinners, this is East Aurora : the story of Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Shops / by H. Kenneth Dirlam and Ernest E. Simmons ; Pen & ink drawings by John Rae.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 464
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dirlam, H. Kenneth.
- Simmons, Ernest E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.
- Hubbard, Elbert.
- East Aurora (N.Y.)--Imprints.
- East Aurora (N.Y.).
- Roycroft Shop.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Brandon, G. D. (autograph, Sept. 1964)
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Story of Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Shops
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vantage Press, 1964.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- The Philistine
- Little Journeys
- "A message to Garcia"
- The work of the Roycrofters
- More about Roycroft
- Sociological experiments
- Elbert Hubbard's style
- If a man can make a better mousetrap
- Keep those women away from me!
- East Aurora a mecca
- "A little journey to East Aurora" by Francis and Abigail Farrar
- We want all you possess
- Epilogue
- Books and magazines done into print at the Roycroft Shop, 1895-1905.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust wrapper. Black and white photo of authors tipped in on last page.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dirlam, H. Kenneth. Sinners, this is East Aurora.
- OCLC:
- 839216
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