Lynd Ward: 'God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts', London, Jonatha...

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Lynd Ward: 'God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts', London, Jonathan Cape, 1930, 1st edition, 1st impression, 144 striking woodcut illustrations, original quarter cloth (lacks printed label to spine) over striking pictorial paper covered boards. The first of six wordless novels by the talented printmaker Lynd Ward (1905-1985), told exclusively through woodcut illustrations. A Faustian tale of a struggling young artist bargaining his soul for a magical paintbrush, 'God's Man' was the work that built Ward's reputation, and was an influential precursor to the development of the graphic novel.