Ward lynd illustrations (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Viii, 308 Pp. Green Cloth, Spine Lettered In Brown, Paste-On Cover Illustration. Early May 1930 Reprint By Literary Guild Soon After 1930 First Printing By Farrar & Rinehart. With May 1930 "Wings" Promoting This Literary Guild Printing. Very Good Plus, Sight Usage, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Some Wear And Small Losses And A Few Short Tears At Edges.…

Leather Bound. Zustand: Very Good. Fine copy, bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. All edges gilt, pages clean. Bookplate of former owner affixed in prelims.

Limited edition. 1/2000. Quarto. (xxix), 268 pp., [1]. Brown cardboard slipcase, tan label with olive colored lettering mounted on spine. Original glassine wrapper. Decorative cloth binding in, brown label with gilt lettering mounted on spine. Color illustrated frontispiece. This limited editions #1755 of 2000 is signed by artist Lynd Ward at the colophon. All illustrations throughout in black and purple. Slipcase with a few light stains to covers. Glassine wrapper with chipping to extremities, torn in a few places. Slipcase in very good, glassing wrapper in good+, binding and interior in very good+ to near fine condition overall.…

Hardcover. Octavo, v, xi, 407 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in dark green leather bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have extremely light wear. Text block has all edges gilt. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Ribbon marker. NOTE: Shelved in Column A. 1418199. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First edition. 158pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown branch-patterned cloth over boards. Four full-page illustrations by Lynd Ward. Bookseller's discreet ticket on the rear pastedown. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with very subtle soiling, lightly chipped edges, and a 1" closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. A very attractive dust jacket. A scarce early work illustrated by Lynd Ward. Dance 015. Chicago-born illustrator, printer, and novelist Lynd Ward was known for his series of wordless novels illustrated with woodcuts and wood engravings, often referred to as a precursor to the modern graphic novels. Lynd Ward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [rear hinge cracked but not separated, slight bumping/fraying at most corners, fading to spine cloth, generic bookplate adhered to the front endpaper; gilt lettering on front cover and upper spine a bit rubbed but still easily readable]. Very scarce novel set in Southern California in the 1920s, and a lost classic if there ever was one (or at least it used to be; see below*). One modern-day commentator has observed that the book was "killed by neglect" (receiving only a single review -- a pan -- in the Saturday Review of Literature), but as Kevin Starr relates in "Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s," its fate may have been a bit more complicated than that. The book was, in fact, a scabrously satirical portrait of Southern California's bohemian community, and in particular of prominent L.A. bookman Jake Zeitlin and his circle of friends and associates (which included Merle Armitage, Edward Weston and others). Since it was Zeitlin himself who had originally introduced the author to this group -- invited him in, essentially -- he quite justifably viewed the book as an "insulting betrayal" (Starr's words), and in fact took steps took legal steps against it. According to Starr's account, Brinig's caricature of Zeitlin ("Sol Mosier" in the book) was anti-Semitic "even by the most forgiving of standards," and Zeitlin, having seen a set of galleys prior to publication, threatened a lawsuit; the result of all this kerfuffle was that "the most offensive portions of Brinig's savaging of Zeitlin were removed" from the book as published. In spite of (or maybe because of) remaining out of print for more than 85 years, the book achieved a kind of quasi-mythic reputation. It's been cited as both a landmark in Southern California fiction and an early gay-themed novel, and has been referenced in several scholarly works: it was mentioned in passing by David Ulin in the introduction to his 2002 anthology "Writing LA" (although he misspelled the author's name, and didn't include an excerpt), and discussed at some length by David Fine in his excellent book "Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction." Fine described it as possibly "the strangest novel to come out of the territory -- a novel not set in Hollywood or dealing with the making of movies, but saturated with every fantasy and dream associated with the region." It was also admired (if that's the word, and maybe only for California-haters) for its apocalyptic finale, in which the state is struck by a massive earthquake and (you guessed it) falls into the ocean -- "not the first or the last time," writes Starr, "this fate would be dealt by fictionists to the Pacific Coast." (It's this latter aspect that also earned it a mention in Mike Davis's "Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.") *All this posthumous attention, I'm happy to say, finally led to a new printing of the novel, by Tough Poets Press, in 2020 -- a cheaper alternative to the present offering, especially if all you want is to read the thing. Illustrated by (dj and chapter-head illustrations) Lynd Ward (illustrator).…

dj. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (22.25cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-67,[5]pp, with title page and dustjacket featuring woodcut illustrations by Lynd Ward. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.75), gently spine-sunned, extremities a little rubbed, some trivial dustiness, and a few tiny nicks and tears; four pieces of archival tape reinforcement on verso, with one piece removed; Very Good+. "This was the second and final book of Faulkner's poetry published during his lifetime. It contains forty-four numbered poems, of which fourteen had appeared previously, wholly or in part" (PETERSON A15.1b). …