Madman's Drum by Lynd Ward - 1930

Dover Publications, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Dover Publications, 2005-09-08. Paperback. Used: Good.

Dover Publications, 2005-09-08. Paperback. New.

Dover Publications, 2005-09-08. Paperback. New. 9x6x0. Brand new paperback. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

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Dover Publications, 2005-09-08. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

JONATHAN CAPE & H.S., HARRISON SMITH, TOR., NY, USA,CANADA, 1930. 2ND. Fair/No-None. Black Cloth, Heavy Wear to Top & Bottom of Spine and Corners of Cover, Text BLOCK GOOD . Topic, Subject and Category Keywords: GRAPHIC ART DECO .

No place, , no year, about 1930,. 205x140mm,. Boarding binding. The title page is missing. Binding a little undone.

New York : Jonathan Cape Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. Lynd Ward. Madman's Drum is the author's second of six wordless novels. In art deco style, Ward uses woodcut illustrations only to tell the story of tragedy and ultimate insanity that befalls a slave trader after stealing a demon-faced drum from Africa. Ward's best-known books are his first wordless novel, "God's Man", and his children's story, "The Biggest Bear", for which he won a Caldecott for this children's story. It is said that Ward's wordless novels had a great influence on the development of the graphic novel. Ward was a son of a Methodist minister and political organizer / radical social activist Harry F. Ward, the first chairman of the ACLU when it was founded in 1920. (Wikipedia). Boards are covered in a printed paper depicting repeated African mask-like characters, stars and mountains in black and off white. Black cloth spine bears an illustrated… Read More

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith Incorporated, 1930. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG (no dw). 8vo, 256pp (printed one-side), printed boards, lacking dustwrapper. The magnificent first edition of the second of Lynd Ward's six wordless novels, which incorporate German Expressionist techniques and have had a lasting influence on the development of the graphic novel. Unmarked copy, light bookplate residue to front free endpaper, a bit of general reading wear.