[Rarebooks] Lynd Ward

[Dennis Melhouse]

1.      Gessner, Robert.  UPSURGE. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1933). 
First edition. . 42p. Illustrated with frontispiece and title page device 
by Lynd Ward, frontispiece repeated on the dust jacket. White-titled black 
cloth. VG+ in d.j. with minor chips at the extremes.   (9467)      $225.00

2.      Ward, Lynd.  MAD MAN'S DRUM. New York: Jonathan Cape Harrison 
Smith, (1930). LIMITED TO 309 COPIES SIGNED BY WARD. Unpaged. A Novel in 
Woodcuts. Black cloth with paper spine label and woodcut mounted on upper 
cover. Fine in slipcase.    (12696)    $1500.00

3.      Ward, Lynd.  STORYTELLER WITHOUT WORDS, THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF LYND 
WARD. New York: Abrams, 1974. First edition. . Thick, square 4to. Black and 
brown cloth with titles in white and decorations in black. Fine in VG+ d.j. 
Includes the plates from the novels in woodcuts. (13787)    $300.00

4.      Ward, Lynd.  VERTIGO. New York: Random House, 1937. First edition. 
. Unpaged. A Novel In Woodcuts. Blue cloth with swirl design. Good in d.j., 
some edgewear to book, edge chipping to d.j.  Quite scarce in dust 
jacket.   (13884)     $550.00

5.      [Ward, Lynd, illus]. Hicks, Granville.  ONE OF US: THE STORY OF 
JOHN REED. New York: The Equinox Cooperative Press, (1935). First edition. 
. Illustrated wIth lithos by Lynd Ward. Gilt-titled black and red cloth. 
VG+ in d.j. with chips at extremes and yellowed paper.  30 pages of text on 
the versos with the illustrations on the rectos. Dust jacket printed in 
black and red with illustration on upper cover. Equinox Press #11. 
(9468)       $250.00

6.      [Ward, Lynd] Voltaire, Francoise M. A. de.  POEM UPON THE LISBON 
DISASTER. Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1977. Limited to 200 copies signed by 
WARD, HECHT, and WILSON. . 33p. Illustrated with six wood engravings by 
Lynd Ward. Tall, thin 8vo. Gilt-titled black cloth spine with black and 
silver pattern paper boards, pages bound in French-fold fashion. Fine in 
slipcase.  Translated by Anthony Hecht, introduction by Arthur Wilson. 
(8341)     $200.00

7.      Wilde, Oscar.  THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. New York: Vanguard 
Press, 1928. Limited to 2000 copies. . 106p. With full-page illustrations 
and page decorations in mezzotint by Lynd Ward. Tall 8vo. In a binding of 
thin wood veneer. A few lines nestely underlined in ink, very very light 
corner wear, else a nice copy. Quite difficult to obtain. (13332)    $200.00


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