Description: 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. Price 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 Ward First Edition 1930 Madman's Drum A Novel In Woodcuts Hardcover w/DJ Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is Madman’s Drum A Novel In Woodcuts by Lynd Ward 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. Price 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. From the Wikipedia: 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. Madman's Drum is the second wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985), published in 1930. In 118 images, it tells the story of a slave trader who murders an African and steals the victim's demon-faced drum, and the tragic consequences it has for his family. The book was executed in wood engravings, and was the second of Ward's six wordless novels, after 1929's Gods' Man. Ward was more ambitious with his second work in the medium, and created more individuated characters, a more complicated plot, and a more explicit outrage at social injustice than in the first book. He used a finer degree of detail in the artwork using a wider variety of carving tools. and was expressive inhis use of symbolism and exaggerated emotional facial expressions. The book was well received upon release, and the success of Ward's first two wordless novels encouraged publishers to publish more books in the genre. In 1943 psychologist Henry Murray used two images in his Thematic Apperception Test of personality traits. The book is considered less successfully executed than the first, a slump Ward overcame by streamlining his work in his next wordless novel, Wild Pilgrimage (1932). OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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Price: 250 USD
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
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Author: Lynd Ward
Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Character Family: Madman's Drum
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Illustrator: Lynd Ward
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Jonathan Cape/Harrison Smith
Region: North America
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Lynd Ward; Graphic Novel, Woodcuts, Graphic Novel
Subject: Illustrated
Topic: Lynd Ward
Year Printed: 1930
Origin: American