The Last Hunt
New York: Random House, 1940. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
Green cloth with stamped gilt titles and a paste-on front decoration; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear and some sun-fading to the bottom edge; top edge stained dark brown. Dust jacket with the price of $2.50 has evenly age-toned with minimal shelf handling, now in a protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 281 pages; decorated endpages with 55 illustrations by Lynd Ward 10 are full page.
A novel of the Forest and Its People similar in its theme to Bambi.
Lynd Kendall Ward was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels have influenced the development of the graphic novel.
The Last Hunt is a book of rare distinction of imaginative insight and deep knowledge of a world vanishing due to mankind’s instincts. An ancient theme – hunting and the conflict and almost mystical affinity between hunter and hunted, man and his quarry. [NYT Book Review 4/7/1940]
Item #15595
Price: $45.00
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