James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE DEVIL'S OWN DEAR SON: A Comedy of the Fatted Calf
Hall Code |
Description |
DODS-A1a |
First Printing, Signed 1949 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE DEVIL'S | OWN DEAR | SON | [in italic] A Comedy of the Fatted Calf | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [in italic] "And when he came to himself, he said . . . |
I will arise and go to my father." | 1949 | Farrar, Straus and Company • New York (see image above).
Title page verso:COPYRIGHT, 1949 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] All rights reserved, including the right to repro- | duce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. | [Farrar, Straus device] | MANUFACTURED IN THE U. S. A.| BY H. WOLFF, NEW YORK | DESIGNED BY STEFAN SALTER (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949
Collation:
Crown octavo [21 cm. (8¼ in.) x 14.3 cm. (5⅝ in.)]; signature leaf + xxviii + 209 pp. + 1 blank leaf; signature leaf (not counted in pagination); (i) half-title; (ii) Books by James Branch Cabell; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) Table of Contents (verso blank); (ix) fly-title: Preface; (x) quotation; xi-xxvii text of Preface (verso blank); (1) fly-title - Part I; (2) quotation; 3-(210) text; 1 blank leaf. Pages (ix), (1), (21), (73), (121), (173), and (197) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Green cloth, yellow lettering and decorations on front cover and spine; cream paper label with grey lettering on spine; all edges trimmed. Spine: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [paper label] [Kalki device] | THE | DEVIL'S | OWN | DEAR | SON | [base of spine] FARRAR | STRAUS. Front cover: [Kalki device] (see image above).
Signature leaf:
An unpaginated leaf tipped in ahead of the half-title. Signed by the author on recto, verso blank. Not counted in pagination (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | NORTON SANFORD BASKIN | In part because of his large knowledge of | the tourist trade; but above all, because | of my large admiration. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, lettering and decorations in black, white, and blue. Ground of spine and front panel is a decoration on black and blue (see image above).
Spine: [in white decorative text] The | Devil's | own | dear son | [in blue decorative text] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | Farrar | Straus
Front panel: [in white decorative text] The Devil's | own dear son | [in blue decorative text] A COMEDY of the Fatted Calf [in white decorative text] by | James Branch Cabell
Rear panel: [photograph of Mr. Cabell] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in black italic] Critical comment on Mr. Cabell's most recent novel | THERE WERE TWO PIRATES | [two quotations from reviews] | [3-line blurb] | [in blue] FARRAR, STRAUS AND COMPANY, INC. | 53 East 34th Street New York 16, N. Y.
Front flap: [in black, flush right] $2.75 | [in blue decorative script] The Devil's Own | Dear Son | [in black] A Comedy of the Fatted Calf | by JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [first part of blurb, 21-lines in three paragraphs] | [in italic] (Continued on back flap) | [in blue] FARRAR, STRAUS AND CO. | 53 East 34th Street New York 16, N. Y.
Rear flap: [in black] [in italic] (Continued from front flap) | [31-line continuation of blurb from front flap] | [in blue] FARRAR, STRAUS AND CO. | 53 East 34th Street New York 16, N. Y.
Notes:
A small number of copies were dsitributed by the Autographed First Editions Club with a signature leaf tipped in before of the half-title. The actual number of copies issued thus is usually given as 50, but this has not been confirmed.
