Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . With a New Introduction by Patrick McGrath and Engravings on Wood by Lynd Ward. Centipede Press, Lakewood, Colorado, 2006.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Folio, illustrations by Lynd Ward, leather-backed boards. First printing of this edition. One of 500 numbered copies for sale, this being number 92. The fifth Centipede Press book. New 11-page introduction by Patrick McGrath. The engravings on wood by Lynd Ward first appeared in an edition of FRANKENSTEIN published in New York in 1934 by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. "FRANKENSTEIN is at once a Gothic horror tale and the first important science fiction novel. Its sustained popularity and place in modern myth is probably as much due to the innumerable stage, film, television, comic book and radio adaptations of it -- most of which depart completely from the text -- as to the strength of the work itself." - Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 8. Some rubbing to leather along front spine edge, a nearly fine copy in cloth slipcase. (#170983)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.