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Hyde, Laurence. Introduction by Rockwell Kent. Southern Cross: a Novel of the South Seas. Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1951.

Price: US$99.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher's gilt-titled cloth-backed black boards, red device to front cover. Spine is sunned/damped, top block edge mildly damped, trace insecting, trace soil. Tight and square. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 255 pages

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Laurence Hyde; Rockwell Kent. Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas. Told in Wood Engravings by Laurence Hyde. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1951.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. 7.25 x 6.5 in. Black paper boards backed in red cloth. Red figurative stamp on upper. Spine lettered in gilt. 257 pp. No dust jacket. Illustrated with prints from the original woodblocks. 1st edition stated. Very good example. Light shelfwear, handling. Ex library; bookplate on front pastedown.

Seller: McCanse Art, Toronto, ON, Canada

Hyde, Laurence. Introduction by Rockwell Kent. Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas. The Ward Ritchie Press, design by Joseph Simon, Los Angeles, CA, 1951.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 255pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]; red cloth over black boards. Gilt titling to spine, graphic device stamped in red on the front cover. A dramatic and chilling tale, told in wood engravings by the English-born Canadian filmmaker, painter, and graphic artist, Laurence Hyde. With a lovely introduction by master of the graphic image, Rockwell Kent, and a "Review of Stories in Pictures from Earliest Times" by the author. A wordless novel in the tradition of Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward which tells the story of an island in the South Pacific (clearly Bikini Atoll although the author states otherwise in the introduction) and the idyllic and simple lives of the native inhabitants whose lives change dramatically with the arrival of a [U.S.] military presence and atomic testing.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

HYDE, Laurence (Wood Engravings). Introduction by Rockwell Kent.. SOUTHERN CROSS. Told in Wood Engravings. With a Review of Stories in Pictures from Earliest Times.. Ward Ritchie, Los Angeles, 1951.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 255 pages, hundreds of woodcuts, gift inscription from the author on the half title. Square duodecimo. Condition of this 1st edition is good antiquarian. The black cloth covers are a little worn, some corner rubbing, spine a bit faded with some pulling at the top, interior clean and unmarked. This unusual book is a very early example of a graphic novel, told entirely in engraved woodcut illustrations without text except for an introduction and a postscript "A review of Block Books and Stories in Woodcuts. " It shows/tells the fictionalized story of Bikini Island in the South Seas and the devastation that came to its inhabitants at the end of WWII with the advent of the nuclear age. The woodcuts are striking and graphic, sharp and clear, in a recognizably mid-century style quite reminiscent of Rockwell Kent, who lends his name and introduction to the book. A beautiful book with a haunting, too human and tragic story, with a gift inscription from the author on the half-title! . ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed by Author

Seller: Leaf and Stone Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

HYDE, Laurence. Southern Cross; A Novel of the South Seas, told in Wood Engravings by Laurence Hyde, with a review of stories in pictures from earliest times. Introduction by Rockwell Kent. Los Angeles. The Ward Ritchie Press. 1951, 1951.

Price: US$265.35 + shipping

Description: small square8vo. 18cm, the first edition, 255p. with c.230 wood engraved plates, red linen backed black paper over boards, gilt titles, tape stain on the upper board, binding slightly dust worn, internally fine, rare. (Lt).

Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada

HYDE, Laurence.. Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas Told in Wood Engravings With a Review of Stories in Pictures from Earliest Times. Introduction by Rockwell Kent.. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1951]., 1951.

Price: US$277.50 + shipping

Description: 12mo. 2 p.l., 255, [2]. profusely illus. with wood engravings by Hyde. quarter cloth. glassine dw. defective, ownership entry on front free-endpaper else book very good. First Edition.

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada