James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE ST. JOHNS: A Parade of Diversities
Hall Code |
Description |
TSJ-A1a |
First Printing, Signed 1943 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE ST. JOHNS | A PARADE OF DIVERSITIES | [in italic] by | BRANCH CABELL | and | A. J. HANNA | [illustration in blue by Doris Lee] | [in italic] Illustrated by DORIS LEE | "And a voice heard from heaven said, Take | the little book which is open." |[in italic] ―The Revelation of St. John the Divine | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | [in italic] New York Toronto (see image above).
Title page verso: [publisher's device] | COPYRIGHT, 1943, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND A. J. HANNA | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | BY J. J. LITTLE AND IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1943
Collation:
Crown octavo [21 cm. (8¼ in.) x 14.3 cm. (5⅝ in.)]; 1 tipped in leaf + xii + 324 pp; (i) half-title (verso blank); (not counted in pagination) signature leaf; (iii) list of titles in the Rivers of America series; (iv) series title page; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; (vii) dedication (verso blank); ix-x Contents; (xi) quotation (verso blank); (1) fly-title Part One; (2) illustration, The St. Johns River; 3-286 text; (287) fly-title, An Epilogue; (288) quotation; 289-303 text of Epilogue; 304-308 Acknowledgements at Large; 309-318 Bibliography; 319-324 Index. Pages (1), (157), and (287) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Ivory cloth, blue printed label on spine; lettering and decorations on spine in gilt, front cover in blind; all edges trimmed, top stained blue. Spine: [in italic] The | Rivers of| America | [on blue printed label] [triple rule] THE | ST. JOHNS | [in italic] A Parade of | Diversities [triple rule] | [base of spine] FARRAR & | RINEHART. Front cover: [Rivers of America device in blind] (see image above).
Single leaf tipped in ahead of the list of books in the Rivers of America series, signed by both authors (see image above).
The signature page shown at left is from a special copy of The St. Johns, presented by Mr. Cabell to his stepdaughter Priscilla Shepherd Davis (1900-1989). In addition to a presentation inscription in Mr. Cabell's hand, this copy also carries not only Mr. Cabell's and Mr. Hanna's signatures, as usual for TSJ-A1a, but also the signature of Mr. Cabell's son Ballard Cabell. Priscilla Shepherd Davis was the second of the reecently wideowed Mrs. Shepherd's children when she married Mr. Cabell in 1913.
Series Title:
THE | RIVERS OF AMERICA | [in italic] Edited by | STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT | and CARL CARMER | [in italic] As Planned and Started by | CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER | [illustration in blue by Doris Lee] | [in italic] Art Editor | RUTH E. ANDERSON | [Rivers of America logo] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To the memory of | STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT | [prose dedication in 6-lines] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Cream paper printed in blue; each pair of endpapers is diced into 24 rectangles, with a line drawing by Doris Lee in each (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, black lettering on flaps and rear panel. Spine and front panel lettered in blue, black and white; blue background at top and bottom with a line drawing illustration on yellow ground between (see image above).
Spine: [yellow text on blue ground] THE | ST. JOHNS | [in italic] A PARADE OF DIVERSITIES | BRANCH CABELL & | A. J. HANNA | [illustration in black, yellow ground, by Doris Lee] | [black italic on blue ground] FARRAR & | RINEHART
Front panel: [on blue ground] [black italic] RIVERS OF AMERICA | [in white] THE ST. JOHNS | [yellow italic] A PARADE OF DIVERSITIES | [illustration in black, yellow ground, by Doris Lee] | [on blue ground] [in white] BRANCH CABELL & A. J. HANNA | [in yellow italic] ILLUSTRATED BY DORIS LEE
Rear panel: [rule] | [32-lines in four paragraphs. The first paragraph is a brief blurb, followed by three paragraphs advocating the patriotic purchase of War Bonds.] | [flush right, in script] Branch Cabell and | A. J. Hanna [rule]
Front flap: [flush right] $2.50 | [centered] WAR EDITION | Complete text―Reduced Size | In accordance with paper conservation orders of the | War Production Board | [blue rule] | THE ST. JOHNS| [in italic] A PARADE OF DIVERSITIES | by | BRANCH CABELL | and | A. J. HANNA | [in italic] Illustrated by DORIS LEE | [14-line blurb in two paragraphs] | [in italic] (continued on back flap) | [blue rule] | FARRAR & RINEHART, Inc. | New York Toronto
Rear flap: [blue rule] | [in italic] (continued from front flap) | 27-line continuation of blurb in two paragraphs | [blue rule] | FARRAR & RINEHART, Inc. | New York Toronto
Notes:
A small number of copies of the first printing were issued with one additional leaf tipped in, signed by both authors. The exact number issued thus is unknown, but is usually given as around fifty.
