Comments on: Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein

By: nick

nick — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:55:25 +0000

I’m not sure how you would get his original printings of his books. But the collection Storyteller Without Words which came out in 1974 cost me about $225.

By: ty

ty — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:50:47 +0000

how much would any of Lynd Ward’s original books be worth?

By: Dover has published Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein « n i j o m u

Dover has published Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein « n i j o m u — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:36:57 +0000

[...] coincidence strikes again. A year ago I posted some images that Lynd Ward did for an edition of Frankenstein. And a few months ago I got a a printing of the [...]

By: George Beahm

George Beahm — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:14:11 +0000

Centipede Press (www.centipedepress.com) has recently issued a collector’s edition of FRANKENSTEIN with Lynn Ward’s artwork. It’s priced for collectors ($225, clothbound hardback in slipcase), but it’s simply magnificent and, like all of their books, issued in a very small print run.

Centipede Press’s magnificent anthology of HP Lovecraft art (400+ pages, introduction by Harlan Ellison, oversized at 12 x 15.5 inches, and slipcased, with a Michael Whelan wraparound jacket) is no doubt THE most collectible book of the year. You can get it in hardback with dust jacket without the slipcase for $225, but collectors will probably want the slipcased edition ($395) and, for the well-heeled, the traycased edition with extra prints ($495). I doubt most people could afford the leather in traycase edition at $2495, but it’s available if you’ve got great taste and a budget to match.

Bottom line: If you want a collectible, beautiful, book-for-the-ages edition of FRANKENSTEIN, look no further: Centipede Press has delivered the edition of choice for $225.

By: Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:36:28 +0000

VERY cool! Thanks for sharing.

By: David Berona

David Berona — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:57:42 +0000

Lynd Ward’s wood engravings started me on a journey that resulted in my book: Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels. I spent a lot of hours at Georgetown’s Special Collections and have to echo David Hagen’s comment. It is WELL WORTH a visit.
For those further interested in Ward, I was at exhibit at Rutgers a few years ago with Ward’s blocks from VERTIGO. Check this out online:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/Vertigo/

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:28:17 +0000

Wow! Just wow! Thanks for sharing.

By: Mike Rhode

Mike Rhode — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:31:27 +0000

I’ve got this book – inherited it from my grandfather – it’s absolutely lovely.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:06:57 +0000

I don’t know when I’ll be in D.C., but if ever I am I’m definitely going to visit. Are the special collections open to everyone or just researchers associated with a university?

Here are some Georgetown links of Lynd Ward info and some images:

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/guac/ward_05/wordless.htm

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/lynd_ward/illustrations.htm

And I just did a quick search, and John Lauritsen has some images of the book up on his site:
http://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/LYNDWARD.HTM

He also has an entire book attempting to show that Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Frankenstein and not Mary, which is a bold claim and may be a book I’ll have to pick up.

By: Trevor Dodge

Trevor Dodge — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:40:06 +0000

These are really wonderful. Thanks for posting.

@David Hagen: is any of Georgetown’s collection available for viewing online?