New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 42pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black cloth over boards with bold white lettering on the front board. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward from a wood engraving reproduced by electrotype and printed in black; title page incorporates a detail of the frontispiece; dust jacket..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. 348pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/2 black cloth over illustrated boards. Near Fine/Fine. Name and date (contemporary) neat and small in ink on the front free endsheet. Publisher's recommended reading list laid in. List includes this title. Dust jacket, boards and frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Unusually..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 55pp. Quarto [26 cm] Full blue cloth with silver stamped title on front board. Near fine/Near fine. Nice clean copy of the early Ward title. Ward illustrations throughout. More
Garden City, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1941. Lynd Ward. Reprint. Hardcover. 486pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bright light green cloth over boards with the title stamped in yellow on the backstrip. Endpapers heavily darkened; two inscriptions on the front free endpaper, one of which is a contemporary gift inscription. In..... More
New York: Random House, 1937. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Octavo. [21 cm]. Illustrated cloth over boards. Inside of front board and front free endpapers toned. Mild scuffing to head of spine and corners, which are slightly bumped. Subtle yellowing to edge of textblock. Considered one of Lynd Ward's finest works..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo [24 cm] Tan boards with printed title on front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Ward illustrations throughout. More
New York: Artists & Writers Guild Inc. / Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Lynd Ward. First edition. Hardcover. 31pp. Slim octavo [23 cm] Color illustrated boards. Pictorial endpapers. Very good, with moderate rubbing to the extremities. The bottom fore edge corners of the last two pages are creased. With the matching..... More
New York: Artists & Writers Guild Inc. / Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Lynd Ward. First edition. Hardcover. 31pp. Slim octavo [23 cm] Color illustrated boards. Pictorial endpapers. Very good, with moderate rubbing to the extremities. With the matching dust jacket, in very good condition. Mildly rubbed and age-toned, and with..... More
New York: The Children's Book Inc, 1929. Early reprint. Hardcover. 229pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Pale green cloth over boards lettered and ornamentally stamped in black and red on the spine and front cover. Dark green and white illustrated endsheets. Tipped-in frontispiece from an oil painting on wood. Very good minus..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. First edition. 212pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with orange and black title and pictorial paper labels on the front board and backstrip. The spine and covers show only mild wear at the edges, and the spine is a bit rolled. The rippled front free..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. Lynd Ward. First trade edition. Hardcover. 202pp. Octavo [21 cm] Navy blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine, and a silver stamped circular design on the front board. Very good, with thin faded strips at the spine ends..... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1928. Lynd Ward. First edition. Hardcover. 158pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown branch-patterned cloth over boards. Four full-page illustrations by Lynd Ward. The extremities are a bit dinged, and the front board is very slightly warped. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 342pp. Octavo. 1/4 black cloth with black and white illustrated paper over boards, with the rare original jacket and belly-band. Top edge black. Boards and jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward repeating a wood engraving, with the back cover in..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 342pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 black cloth with black and white illustrated paper over boards. Boards illustrated by Lynd Ward repeating a wood engraving, with the back cover in reverse of the front. Gilt title on spine (a trifle..... More
Mineola, NY: Dover, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 259pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. Nearly 200 years ago, a teenager dreamt of a scientist who experimented with restoring life to the dead. Encouraged by her literary-minded friends, she expanded her fantasy into a gripping story that became the epitome of the Gothic novel..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1965. Lynd Ward. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 900pp. Octavo [27 cm] Dark blue leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine and front cover, and gilt stamped vignettes on the covers. All edges gilt. Blue moire endsheets. Brown silk ribbon page marker. Designed..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1965. Lynd Ward. Heritage reprint. Hardcover. 302pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] In a silver paper covered slipcase. Navy blue cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine, and silver stamped fleur de lis patterns and single ruled borders on the spine and front..... More
New York: Scholastic Book Services; Scholastic Records; Scholastic Magazines, Inc, 1973. Lynd Ward. Later printing. Paperback. Slender square octavo [20.5 cm] Pictorial wrappers. The book is in very good condition, with light rubbing and creasing to the wraps, and multiple faint, thin markings on the rear wrap. Each mark measures..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 245pp. Octavo [22 cm] Turquoise blue cloth over boards lettered and pictorially stamped in black on the backstrip and front board. Blue and white pictorial endpapers. Very good, with subtle fading at the spine and along the edges of the..... More
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 44pp. Slender quarto [26.5 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with an illustrated paper title label on the front board. Very good, with minor wear at the spine ends, and a couple of tiny indentations in the cloth near the..... More
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New York: William Morrow & Co, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 44pp. Slender quarto [26.5 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with an illustrated paper title label on the front board. Lower extremities subtly sunned and dinged. In a dust jacket, with several tape repairs to the edges (two of them..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929 & 1930. First edition. Octavos [21 cm]; 1/4 black cloth over black and white illustrated boards. Both volumes Very Good, in professionally restored publisher's slipcase. Matted self-portrait in Near Fine condition. 1930 Publisher's Gift Edition. Ward's first and second "wordless novels" sold..... More
Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1966. First World Printing. Hardcover. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a blind stamped title on the front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. There are multiple extremely tiny stains on..... More
New York: Peter Smith, 1933. Sixth printing. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards with black and white printed labels on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The spine is lightly rolled, the cloth of the boards and backstrip is mildly sunned, the front..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, October, 1930. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. Spine subtly rolled. Age toning and light rubbing to boards. The first of Ward's six wordless..... More