Lynd Ward’s wordless novel, Wild Pilgrimage, tells the story of a man who, finding himself born into a drab industrial world, is conscious of a great difference between his immediate surroundings and the world his mind creates. The protagonist attempts to bring these worlds together. Ward uses the technique of printing the fantasy portions in orange and the rest in black.
As far as I am aware there was only one Trade edition and it was done in the USA. Unlike the first two novels there was no signed, limited edition.
- Title: Wild Pilgrimage
- Author and Illustrator: Lynd Ward
- Quotation at the front of the book: by Arturo Giovannitti (1884-1959), Italian-American union leader, political activist
- Date of publication: 1932
- Publisher: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
- Place of publication: New York
- Printer: ?
- Copyright: Artist?
- Dimensions: 25 x 18 x 2 cm
- Dust jacket: Yes- designed by the artist?
- slipcase: No
- Binding: hard cover
- Cover: cloth binding with paper label glued to the spine and small paper image glued to the front cover
- Language: English titles, etc
- Paginated: unpaginated
- Printed: recto
- Top Edge stained black, fore edge and bottom edges uncut.
- Edition: Trade only
- Printed from the original matrix: doubtful, I assume electroplates were made from the wooden blocks
- Description: 105 wood engravings; Ward used two colours; the story was told in black and white while the psychological inner workings of the protagonist were printed in orange (Patri in the late 1930s also used orange to portray his protagonist’s inner moods).
- Like the two earlier books, the Trade copy sold for $3.00.
