Illustrations by Ward Lynd (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slipcase, HC 269pgs. Blue slipcase with wear/tear to edges and corners and some fading. Red/cream marbled boards. General wear, slight foxing to face edge of pages. Slight fading of the spine. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Wonderful special edition provided by Heritage Press (Hardford, CT) in 1977. Both the slip case and the book itself are brand new; pristine. (BR) Shelf 161. Lynd Ward (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. No slipcase. Ships from California.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Heritage Press, 1932. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No jacket or slipcase. Introduction by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Illustrations in photogravure by Lynd Ward. Red and brown decorative cloth binding with title panel on spine, gilt titles within. Very clean and unmarked with slight wear to spine heel. Sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Pages toned, completely clean and free from any markings. A handsme volume. Historical novel originally published in 1861, set in the 1400s. Charles Reade was considered to be the natural successor of Charles Dickens. Today he is known primarily for "The Cloister and the Hearth" and "Griffith Gaunt". The "Cloister and the Hearth' is an historical novel with the action taking place on the Continent in the late 15th century. Reade introduces various historical characters into the narrative--Froissart, Gringoire, Deschamps, Luther, Villon, and, as a child, Erasmus.The story centers around the tragically thwarted love of Erasmus' parents. 745 pages. 9.5" x 6.25" x 1.8". 1932, The Heritage Press, New York.…

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. New York, NY: Viking Press. G/G. 1947. . Cloth w/DJ. Sm 4to., 134 pp. pp., Dj edges rubbed, frayed, price-clipped, toning stain on pgs 34/35 . two color illustrations (illustrator).

Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Includes "Sandglass". With an Introduction by Howard Fast. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. Red marbled cloth with blue title label. Illustrations by Lynd Ward (illustrator).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. A HAUNTING FOREST NOVEL OF HUNTER AND QUARRY, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT BY LYND WARD. A haunting woodland novel centered on the pursuit of a great stag and the complicated relationship between hunter and quarry. Genevoix moves between the lives of the animals and the two hunters who pursue the stag, creating a story of instinct, survival, violence, and man's place within the natural world. A FOREST NOVEL IN THE TRADITION OF BAMBI. Contemporary reviewers recognized the obvious comparison with Felix Salten's Bambi, although Genevoix's treatment is more firmly centered on the hunt itself. The New Yorker described the book as the pursuit of a stag by two contrasting hunters, while contemporary Kirkus emphasized its forest atmosphere and the stag's role in the lives of the Killer and the Man. Lynd Ward's extensive illustrations are particularly well suited to the novel's woodland setting and add substantial visual interest to the American edition. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: ILLUSTRATED BY LYND WARD. Octavo, 8.25 inches tall, 281 pages. Green cloth with gilt-stamped titles and pictorial paste-on decoration to the front board, dark brown top stain, and decorated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Lynd Ward with 55 illustrations, including 10 full-page illustrations. Translated from the French by Warre Bradley Wells. Issued with a pictorial dust jacket priced $2.50. CONDITION: VERY GOOD IN A VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Bindings tight and square. Text clean with light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with some sun-fading along the lower edge of the cloth. The original priced dust jacket has even age-toning with minimal shelf handling wear and is now protected in a clear Mylar sleeve. LITERARY AND ILLUSTRATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: GENEVOIX MEETS LYND WARD. Maurice Genevoix was particularly associated with writing about nature, animals, hunting, and the French countryside. Here the traditional hunting narrative becomes an exploration of the nearly mystical affinity and inevitable conflict between hunter and hunted. Lynd Ward's extensive illustrations are particularly well suited to the novel's woodland setting and add substantial visual interest to the American edition. SUBJECTS: Maurice Genevoix, Lynd Ward, Hunting, Hunters, Deer, Stags, Forests, Wildlife, Human-Animal Relationships, Nature, French Fiction, Illustrated Books, Nature Fiction, Hunting Fiction, Animal Literature, Illustrated Books, French Literature. Illustrations by Lynd Ward (illustrator).…

Condition: Fine. NY . 1930 first edition. Literary Guild. vol 4 no. 5. 12mo wraps. Fine. 22p. Cover and several text illus by Ward with several articles about him. Fine. no wear. no owner marks.

Pamphlet. 56p., wraps, upper right hand corner slightly bumped otherwise in very good condition, 6x9 inches.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Son. G/G. 1937. . Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 202 pp., Dj rubbed, worn , frayed, yellowed, cover edges faded, minor foxing . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Mild foxing/toning to endpapers. Dust jacket has several chips around edges and is a bit dirty and worn; darkened spine. Green boards mildly worn with rubbing to corners. Lynd Ward (illustrator).

[1965]. (4to in slipcase) Very good plus. Issued without dust jacket. 302pp. In a good to very good slipcase. Frontispiece, plates. The slipcase is edgeworn. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. (Fiction).

1930. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 304pp. Pale green cloth with sepia pastedown illustration on front and back cover. Frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, illustrated cloth cover, index. The top corner of the back cover is bumped, and also its fore-edge has been dampstained, previous owner's name. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Locale: Ceylon; Martinique; New Hebrides; Siam; Tahiti. (Travel).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. no d.j. as Issued. 269 pages, bound in brown leather, gilt covers and spine,5 raised bands, moire end papers, silk page marker, all edges gilt, introduction by Howard Fast," Collector's edition bound in genuine leather" a bright, clean, tight copy = a beautiful book! Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. illustrations by Lynd Ward (illustrator). Book. …

1961. (4to in slipcase) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 269pp. In near fine slipcase. Illustrations, notes. Very light rubbing to the spine and the slipcase is faded. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Howard Fast. (Philosophy, Human Rights).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue boards are worn with rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Interior pages and illustrations by Lynd Ward are very good. Lynd Ward (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: VG/No Dustjacket. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Son. VG/No Dustjacket. 1937. . Cloth. Limited Edition: #333 of 550 copies signed by the author . 8vo., 202 pp., slipcase worn and fraying, bookseller sticker inside rear cover . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Greenish printed boards with very lightly colored dustjacket with different design than boards. (39) pp. of text, each page having a colored lithograph illustration by Ward. The story of Tim, the car that wanted to go faster than any other car, and his reluctant driver, Amos. With the rare dustjacket. VG/Good+ 1 tear at top of dj front panel 3/4" long, other minor imprefections and rubbing marks to jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: 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).…