WARD, Lynd

Vertigo. A Novel in Woodcuts

New York, Random House, 1937 [first edition].

Octavo, [viii] preliminary pages plus [230] plates (printed rectos only) from woodcuts by Lynd Ward, plus divisional title leaves.

Decorated blue and white cloth, top edge dyed blue; endpapers offset; front flyleaf creased across the bottom corner; ownership and bookshop stamps on the front pastedown, with a private collection stamp on the title page; a very good copy with the dustwrapper chipped and torn, dusty on the rear panel, and with some loss to the foot of the spine.

An early and acclaimed graphic novel.

Item #112645

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