Mad Man's Drum A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd - 1930

E-77: Jonathan Cape, Harrison Smith. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Jonathan Cape/Harrison Smith, New York. 1930. Unpaginated. First Edition / First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (spine darkened and lightly sunned). Bound in black cloth boards with paste-down label present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of the finest American wood engravers of the twentieth century and an outstanding artist of any era, Lynd Ward (1905-85) created a series of fantastic visual novels. The powerful imagery and psychological intensity of his wordless works have elicited comparisons to the writings of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and they have exercised an enormous influence over latter-day graphic novelists. Ward's tutelage included studying under the direction of German woodcut and engraving master Hans Alexander Mueller. Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 – 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of a Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward was best known for his wood engraving and is considered one of the founders of the American graphic novel but he also worked in watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. E-77; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .