8vo. (7 x 5 inches), bound in simple boards with the title information in black on the upper cover and spine. Slightly hand soiled, spine a little darkened. One of 600 copies for America, SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.The Belgian printmaker, illustrator, draughtsman and painter, Frans Masereel, was born in Blankenburg in 1889 and died in Avignon in 1972. He worked in Paris but moved to Switzerland during the great war where he associated himself with a circle of artists and writers headed by Rolland Romain, who wrote the Foreword to this "novel without words." In stark black and white Masereel tells the story of a man who has drunk steadily of all the springs of life, someone who has known all its joys along with all its disappointments, and forsakes everything in his search for peace in Nature. Masereel created a number of such illustrated books and is also well known for having contributed a series of 12 woodcuts entitled, "How a Book is Made at the Officina," for the book, The Officina Bodoni: The Operation of a Hand-press during the First Six Years of Its Work, published in Paris in 1929 by the Officina Bodoni.