Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd - 1937

New York: Random House, 1937. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. Illus. First edition. As issued, in printed cloth, lacking the rare dust jacket. Very light shelfwear, including some minor fraying at the spine end; contemporary owner name on the front pastedown else clean throughout.

Spiegelman, in his introduction to the Library of America's works of Lynd Ward describes this, the last of Lynd Ward's graphic novels, "Genuinely novelistic in scope, it is a difficult work that grapples with perilously difficult times. As emblematic as Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, as ambitiously experimental as Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy, as apocalyptic as Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, it is a key work of Depression-era literature, and useful in understanding what is being done to us right now.