Laing Alexander Lynd Ward (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition. Hinge cracked but book tight; little title color chipping. And rare! Merits bindery repair, which would be modestly priced for hinge tightening. Ward color frontispiece. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, NY 1934. First Edition. 1st Printing. 376 pages. With a frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Black cloth, white decor. Moderate general wear. Binding badly worn at top and bottom of the spine, 4 board tips also worn. Previous owner name. Hinges all fine, all pages Very Good. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 6010.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ward, Lynd (illustrator). First Thus. Collection of 27 ghost stories by leading authors, included R. L. Stevenson, Poe, Alexander Woolcott, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Saki, Algernon Blackwood, & more, in 486 pages with stunning woodcut illustrations by Lynd Ward, which are what make this collection truly special! Orig. published in 1937 as "The Haunted Omnibus,'' this is the First Edition of the reprint by Blue Ribbon books from 1942 (First, Thus). Hardcover small 8vo has green cloth-covered boards with yellow lettering to spine. Condition is VG: interior is completely clean & unmarked, save for former owner's name in pen & old sticker inside front cover, moderate offsetting to all endpapers. Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with moderate tanning, heaviest to edges. Light faded splotch to front board near lower spine, other smaller spots & rubbing to extremities, bumped corners. The slightly clipped DJ is Good+, with a great cover image, but rubbing, creasing, & small chips to extremities & all corners, minor chipping at both ends of spine; nicely protected in nonreflective mylar cover by previous owner. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Lynd Ward (illustrator). 1st. Top corner bumped, edges scraped. Some scuffing; 8vo; 848 pages Good to boards. Light soil on spine. Cover slightly warped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). Reprint. 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 a dust jacket, backed with tape along the edges and folds, and with several closed tears (one measuring 4") to the surface of the spine and surrounding area of the rear panel. Checklist on Basic Books printed on the reverse. Contents: "August Heat" (W. F. Harvey); "The Half Pint Flask" (DuBose Heyward); "The Brahman, the Thief, and the Ghost" (The Panchatantra); "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" (M. R. James); "The Yellow Wall Paper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman); "The King of the World" (A. E. Coppard); "Perez" (W. L. George); "The Wendigo" (Algernon Blackwood); "The Furnished Room" (O'Henry); "The Screaming Skull" (F. Marion Crawford); "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs); "The Horla" (Guy de Maupassant); "Laura" (Saki); "The White People (Arthur Machen); "Concerning Phantoms" (Pliny the Younger); Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson); "The Story of Ming-y" (Lafcadio Hearn); "The Beast with Five Fingers" (W. F. Harvey); "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me" (A. E. Coppard); "Where Their Fire is Not Quenched" (May Sinclair); "The Second Kalandar's Tale" (Arabian Nights); "Full Fathom Five" (Alexander Woollcott); "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (Ambrose Bierce); "The Ghost-Ship" (Richard Middleton); "William Wilson" (Edgar Allan Poe); "The Feather Cloak of Hawaii" (Johannes C. Andersen); "The Gentleman from America" (Michael Arlen). An excellent anthology of classic ghost stories, illustrated by famous wordless novel illustrator Lynd Ward. Originally published as "The Haunted Omnibus" by Farrar & Rinehart in 1937.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Lynd Ward (illustrator). 1st Edition. Three first editions. Fool's Errand (Doubleday Doran, 1928) a book of poems, is INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. In cloth boards, with one corner worn through. Its jacket, with an illustration by J. Sanger, is chipped and in two pieces. End of Roaming (Thornton Butterworth, 1931) HAS AN 11-LINE AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the ffep. No jacket, in cloth boards. The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (Farrar & Rinehart, 1934) in cloth boards, has a partial jacket and a frontispiece, both by Lynd Ward. Alexander Laing was prolific author of poetry, fiction, sea stories, and nonfiction. He was a professor at Dartmouth College. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition; First Printing. Black cloth cover is frayed at bottom corners and along bottom edge with general wear and faint soiling but in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Vintage bookshop label in lower corner of front end sheet. Pages are toned but in very good condition. B&w frontispiece by Lynd Ward is toned but clean and very good. Dust jacket has been crudely repaired with waxed or tissue paper over most of it and old tape repairs on the underside. Publisher's price of $2.00 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ) ; 0 pages.

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Fine, with the exception of small hand-written 'No1323' to front pastedown, in near fine dust jacket, minor wear to tail of spine, with small unnecessary colour touch-up to spine ends and corners of front panel. -- Details: A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward. "'The Ironville Virus', a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man's grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus . . " To take advantage of Lynd Ward's illustrations, the first edition was issued in a variety of coloured dust jacket which matched the colour of the frontispiece, known examples exist in light blue, light green, burgundy, and red as in this copy. -- Octavo (book size 20.6x14.7cm), pp. vii [1] 309 [3]. In publisher's smooth black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in white, front panel with title blocked on a white background and lettering in white, top edge tinted yellow, others untrimmed. Dust jacket with publisher's decorative trim to all corners, and priced 'Net, $2.00' to upper corner of front flap. Dust jacket with small amount of unnecessary colour touch-up to spine ends and corners of front panel. --.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. ***SALE - The current price of this item reflects a 20% discount off our regular price. Sale ends September 30, 2024.***; Blue cloth cover has modest wear to spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. Illustrated in b&w. The book comes with 2 dust jackets. It comes with the original Farrar & Rinehart DJ which is tattered and torn with yellowed tape reinforcing the extremities. Underneath it is the Blue Ribbon Books DJ, which is slightly shorter with wear but clean and in good+ condition. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 9.3 X 6.6 X 2.3 inches; 864 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of this comprehensive collection of horror short stories, edited by Alexander Laing and published by Cassell in 1937. The book and wrapper are in very good or better condition. The wrapper has wear to the spine ends and corners but is all there. There is a patch of browning to the top of the front panel. It displays the correct price of 8/6 net on the spine. The book has a gentle push to one corner and the spine ends. Overall a nice copy. The editor Laing has put together a who's who of horror short story writers, for what the publishers claim is the first illustrated omniibus of ghost stories. Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Ambrose Bierce and Edith Wharton all contribute haunted tales. The real star of the show though is illustrator Lynd Ward who contributes 62 illustrations, either full page, vignettes or tail pieces to accompany each story. .