Description

Author: Ward, Lynd (1905-1985)

Publisher: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith Inc.

Pub Date: 1929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good. Binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Slight wear to lower edges. Deckled edges. Without dust jacket, as issued.

Notes: Lynd Ward, the author, did a series of 6 of these “wordless novels”, this being the first. Ward is considered one of the “ancestors” of the modern graphic novel genre. He won the prestigious Caldecott Award (for children’s book illustration) for his book The Biggest Bear (Houghton Mifflin, 1952)