MADMAN'S DRUM, A NOVEL IN WOODCUTS.
New York: Jonathan Cape Harrison Smith, (1930).
First edition, 2nd printing. Black cloth spine with paper label, pattern paper boards. Quite a fine copy in verygood dust jacket with some edge chipping and minor tears. Item #21104
"The novel centers on a slave trader who kills an African man and steals his drum, which is engraved with a distinct face of a demon... [His son's] wife's and daughters' lives end tragically, and with a demented expression on his face, he ends up walking away hand-in-hand with the jester." (Berona. Wordless Books. p. 52.).
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