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Ward, Lynd. Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The covers and spine label are age-toned. The extremities are lightly rubbed, and there are a couple of short splits in the cloth at the head of the backstrip. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Dance 002. The first of Ward's six wordless novels that is told exclusively through 144 striking woodcut illustrations. Lynd Ward was not only a talented printmaker, but he was a socially-conscious storyteller as well. "Gods' Man," a modern morality play, was the work that built his reputation. It depicts the deadly bargaining of the soul that a struggling young artist is willing to make. This copy is signed by Lynd Ward on the half title.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
WARD, Lynd.. God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts.. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's black cloth with applied illustration and printed spine label, in a custom slipcase. First trade edition. Very slight tanning to the spine label and very minor rubbing to the edges of the binding; tight and sound. 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. Signed block print from Gods' Man. [Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith], [New York], 1929.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: A signed block print of one of the images from 'Gods' Man'. The printed on Japanese, the image measures 10 cm x 10 cm (same as the book). Signed in pencil by Ward under the image in the right corner. The image (no.116) is of the nameless artist and his wife looking skyward. The image is in fine condition. Presumably printed in a miniscule print run as a keepsake from the author and publisher. Gods' Man was the first of Ward's six wordless novels.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Ward, Lynd. [Signed block print from Gods' Man]. [Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith], [New York], 1929.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An original print from Ward's first and most famous wordless novel. Printed from the original woodblock on Japanese paper, the image measures 10 cm x 13 cm. Signed in pencil by Ward under the image in the right corner, with "Gods' Man" printed in pencil opposite. The image depicts Ward's artist protagonist painting in the grass with his son, in one of the book's happier moments. Presumably printed in a minuscule print run as a keepsake from the author and publisher. Gods' Man was the first American wordless novel.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Ward, Lynd. [Signed block print from Gods' Man]. [Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith], [New York], 1929.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An original print from Ward's first and most famous wordless novel. Printed from the original woodblock on very thin translucent paper, the image measures 7.5 cm x 13 cm. Signed in pencil by Ward under the image in the right corner, with "Gods' Man - 1929" printed in pencil opposite. The image is the first appearance of the mysterious masked figure with whom the protagonist strikes his Faustian bargain. Presumably printed in a minuscule print run as a keepsake from the author and publisher. Gods' Man was the first American wordless novel.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Ward, Lynd. Gods' Man. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Ward's first woodcut novel. Limited editions, copy 46 of 400 signed by Lynd Ward, with an original wood cut on Japanese tissue, pulled by Ward laid-in, from blocks made for Gods' Man, and signed by him in pencil. The latter one of the larger images in the novel: the seventh from the front. Interior contents clean and crisp. Rebound in half black morocco and marbled boards, backstrip titled in silver with the top edge in matching silver treatment. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.