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Pictorial paper over boards; spine black cloth with paste-on title label. Top edge stained black. The bindings are tight and square with a slight shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed board edges and corners. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. First Trade Edition; 8.5 inches tall. A wordless graphic 'livre d'artiste' narrative in [116] stark deep black woodcuts. Laid-in Newspaper Article. The second of Lynd Ward's series of six wordless novels follows the unsettling tale of a slave trader who illicitly acquires a demon-faced drum from an African man. The consequences unfold as hardship and death befall his family. A high spot in Twentieth Century American literature.