Madman's Drum

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black boards with illustrated spine paper label. Near fine. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Bright, crisp copy, Ward's second woodcut novel of a total of six. The 118 wood engraved images portray a slave trader who steals a demon-faced drum from an African he murders, and the consequences that evolve for him and his family.