Ward, Lynd. The Silver Pony. Houghton Mifflin Boston 1973, 1973.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Ward returns to the picture story format he pioneered forty years earlier for this dreamlike story of a boy and his imagination. Signed by Ward on half title page. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.

Seller: Different Drummer Books, Niantic, CT, U.S.A.

WARD, Lynd.. The Silver Pony. A Story in Pictures.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: 174 [1] pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo, publisher's white cloth stamped in silver, in dust jacket. First edition. Three tiny spots in a small area of the front cover; otherwise a clean unworn copy, tight and sound, in a dust jacket with some light rubbing at the edges and a few tiny spots to the rear panel. Attractive. Inscribed and signed by Lynd Ward on the half-title page.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Ward, Lynd. The Silver Pony A Story in Pictures. Houghton Mifflin Company, E-200, 1973.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. 4to. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1973 . 174 pgs. Illustrated with 80 casein wordless drawings that make up the book. Signed and inscribed by Lynd Ward on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lynd Ward's beautiful wordless story of a lonely boy and his travels with an imaginary winged pony. The Silver Pony was the winner of the New York Times Best Book Award (1973) and the Caldecott Honor Medal (1974). It was Ward's return to the "novel in woodcuts", decades after his brilliant God's Man and Mad Man's Drum. Lynd Kendall Ward (1905 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels have influenced the development of thegraphic novel. Strongly associated with his wood engravings, he also worked in watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. E-200; 9.1 X 8.0 X 1.0 inches; 174 pages; Signed by Author

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.