WILD PILGRIMAGELynd WardSmith & Haas ($3).
Following Belgian Artist Franz Masereel, Lynd Ward's Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) was the first U. S. novel-in-woodcuts. A few titles to sections helped keep readers' fingers on the story's thread. Wild Pilgrimage, his third woodcut "novel," must be "read" without benefit of caption or title, but it tells so straightforward a story that no clues are needed. Artist Ward adopts one innovation: pictures printed in black show the events of the narrative; in red, what the hero is thinking.
Hero is a young factory worker in...
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