Full Title:

Title page recto: A COMEDY OF THE FATTED CALF | [single star device] | [in decorative script] The Devil's | Own Dear Son | [single star device] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | THE BODLEY HEAD • LONDON (see image above).

Title page verso: first published 1950 | [in italic] This book is copyright. No portion of it may be | reproduced by any process without written permission. | Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher. | Printed in Great Britain by | SCOTTISH COUNTRY PRESS, DALKEITH | for JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD | 8 Bury Place, London, W.C.1 (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1950

Collation:

Duodecimo [18.7 cm. (7⅜ in.) x 13.2 cm. (5 3/16 in.)]; 198 pp. + 1 blank leaf; (1) half-title; (2) by the same author; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7) Contents (verso blank);(9) fly-title: Preface; (10) quotation; 11-24 text of Preface; (25) fly-title - Part I; (26) quotation; 27-198 text; 1 blank leaf. Pages (9), (25), (41), (85), (125), (167), and (187) are fly-titles.

Binding:

Green cloth, black lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed, top edge stained purple. Spine: [in italic] The | Devil's | Own | Dear | Son | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | The | Bodley | Head (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).