SIGNED. Slim square octavo [19.5 cm] White and black illustrated wraps. Title

SIGNED. Slim square octavo [19.5 cm] White and black illustrated wraps. Title on front wrap subtly rubbed. Wraps very gently bumped at the fore-edge corners. Inscribed by Lynd Ward, with his initials, on the title page. The first of Ward's six wordless novels that is told exclusively through 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.