first edition Hardcover
1937 · New York
by Ward, Lynd
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Lynd Ward. [490 pp. 230 wood engravings.] Octavo [21.5 cm]; full dark blue cloth with spiral and star illustrations. Small bump to top corner of the rear board. Some light toning around edges of the pastedowns and flyleaves (as is commonly seen in this work). Lacking the rare dust jacket. Nice period era bookplate affixed to front pastedown, corresponding previous owner's name and date neatly written in black ink on the front flyleaf. A Very Good copy; clean, square, and tightly bound. Considered one of Lynd Ward's finest works, "Vertigo" is the sixth and final of his “wordless novels,” and is told (truncated)