Waif Maid
by McNeer, May; Lynd Ward
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. First edition. 212pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with orange and black title and pictorial paper labels on the front board and backstrip. The spine and covers show only mild wear at the edges, and the spine is a bit rolled. The rippled front free endpaper is adhered to the front pastedown, and on the verso of this page, is a previous owner's name and a mounted descriptive blurb about the book. With dark patches on this page, and the page opposite. The frontispiece is lightly offset on the title page. Illustrated with seven full-page woodcuts, including the six-color frontispiece, and fifteen chapter headers by Lynd Ward. Ward created these woodcuts shortly after the publication of his second wordless novel, Mad Man's Drum. These illustrations show Ward at the height of his creative abilities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46609
- Title
- Waif Maid
- Author
- McNeer, May; Lynd Ward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Graphic Witness; Lynd Ward
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Offset
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
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