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Gods' Man, Plate 20, 1929, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches (225 x 168 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue-thin cream Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

Created by Lynd Ward for his narrative book of illustrations without words, Gods' Man, published by Jonathan Cape and Smith, New York, 1929. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

$450.

Gods' Man, Plate 47, 1929, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 1/16 x 3 inches (129 x 76 mm); sheet size 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches (172 x 111 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue-thin cream Japan, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/16 inches), in excellent condition.

Created by Lynd Ward for his narrative book of illustrations without words, Gods' Man, published by Jonathan Cape and Smith, New York, 1929. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

$450.

Gods' Man, Plate 86, 1929, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 1/16 x 3 1/8 inches (129 x 79 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (168 x 114 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (5/8 to 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's narrative book of illustrations without words, Gods' Man, published by Jonathan Cape and Smith, New York, 1929. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

$450.

Gods' Man, Plate 89 (Artist in Jail), 1929, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 x 3 1/6 inches (127 x 78 mm); sheet size 6 3/4 x 4 9/16 inches (171 x 116 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (9/16 to 1 1/16 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's narrative book of illustrations without words, Gods' Man, published by Jonathan Cape and Smith, New York, 1929. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

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Madman's Drum, Plate 48, 1930, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (140 x 95 mm); sheet size 9 x 6 5/8 inches (229 x 168 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (1 1/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's book of illustrations without words Madman's Drum, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1930. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings by Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

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Prelude to a Million Years, Plate 28, 1933, Wood Engraving.

Edition not stated. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches (130 x 84 mm); sheet size 6 9/16 x 4 1/2 inches (167 x 114 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (11/16 to 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's book of illustration without words Prelude to a Million Years, Equinox Cooperative Press, New York, 1933. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams; New York, 1974.

$450.

Song Without Words, Plate 3, 1936, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 9/16 x 3 1/2 inches (143 x 89 mm), sheet size 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (224 x 181 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (1 x 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's book of illustrations without words, Song Without Words, Random House, New York, 1936. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

SOLD

Song Without Words, Plate 12, 1936, Wood Engraving

Edition small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 5/8 x 3 9/16 inches (143 x 91mm); sheet size 9 11/16 x 6 9/16 inches (245 x 167mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (1 7/16 x 2 11/16), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's book of illustration without words Song Without Words, Random House, New York, 1936. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

$400.

Wild Pilgrimage, No. 26, 1932, Wood Engraving

Edition not stated, but less than 40. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 x 4 1/2 inches (127 x 114 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches (244 x 168 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with margins (1 1/16 to 3 3/16 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's narrative book of illustrations without words Wild Pilgrimage, published by Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc. New York, 1932. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

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Wild Pilgrimage, No. 28, 1933,Wood Engraving

Edition not stated, but less than 40. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (165 x 114 mm); sheet size 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (222 x 171 mm).

A fine, black impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with full margins (7/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

From Lynd Ward's narrative book of illustrations without words Wild Pilgrimage, published by Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc. New York, 1932. Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

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Bridges at Echo Bay , 1947, Wood Engraving

Edition small. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 5 7/16 x 9 7/8 inches (138 x 251 mm); sheet size 8 13/16 x 13 1/2 inches (224 x 343 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/8 inches), in excellent condition.

$450.

Undercliff, 1948, Wood Engraving

Edition 200. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); sheet size 12 1/2 x 9 7/16 inches (318 x 240 mm).

A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 inches), on off-white Japan, in excellent condition.

1948 Presentation Print, Thirty-fourth publication of the Woodcut Society. In the original Woodcut Society presentation folder, with a foreword by the artist.

'Undercliff' is the name of the small town where Ward resided which is situated under the Palisade cliff, along the Hudson River. Illustrated in Storyteller Without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974. Illustrated in James Swann: In Quest of a Printmaker, Czestochowski, 1990.

Collection: College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH.

$650

Corral: Tres Cumbres, 1952, Wood Engraving

Edition 200. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 7 x 12 inches (178 x 305 mm); sheet size 13 x 19 inches (330 x 483 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/4 to 3 1/2 inches). Minor foxing in the margins, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition.

The Woodcut Society, 1953-54 Presentation Print, Forty-fourth Publication of the Woodcut Society. Illustrated in Storyteller Without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

Collections: BPL, NYPL.

$550.

Man Climbing, c.1959, Wood Engraving

Signed and titled in pencil. Dedicated For Jill and Matt in pencil.

Image size 14 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (359 x 156 mm); sheet size 17 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches (454 x 210 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on tissue thin cream Japan, with margins (3/4 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in Storyteller without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.

$450.

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