James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE ST. JOHNS: A Parade of Diversities
Hall Code |
Description |
TSJ-A4 |
Fourth Printing 1951 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE ST. JOHNS | A PARADE OF DIVERSITIES | [in italic] by | BRANCH CABELL | and | A. J. HANNA | [illustration 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 | RINEHART & COMPANY, INC. | [in italic] New York Toronto (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1943, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND A. J. HANNA | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., May, 1951
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.8 cm. (8 3/16 in.) x 14.1 cm. (5 9/16 in.)]; xii + 324 pp; (i) half-title; (ii)-(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:
Green cloth, black printed label on spine; lettering and decorations on spine in gilt, front cover in blind; all edges trimmed. Spine: [in italic] The | Rivers of| America | [on black printed label] [triple rule] THE | ST. JOHNS | [in italic] A Parade of | Diversities [triple rule] | [base of spine] RINEHART. Front cover: [Rivers of America device in blind] (see image above).
Series Title:
THE | RIVERS OF AMERICA | [in italic] Edited by | HERVEY ALLEN and CARL CARMER | [in italic] As Planned and Started by | CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER | [illustration by Doris Lee] | [in italic] Associate Editor Art Editor | JEAN CRAWFORD BENJAMIN FEDER| [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] 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: [on blue ground] OTHER VOLUMES IN THE | [decoration] [in script] Rivers of America [decoration] | SERIES | [all on white ground] [2-line quotation from The San Francisco Chronicle] | [list of 41 titles in the Rivers of America series, in two columns] | RINEHART & COMPANY, INC. | 232 Madison Avenue New York 16, N. Y.
Front flap: FOURTH PRINTING $4.50 | [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) | [rule] | RINEHART & COMPANY, INC. | New York Toronto
Rear flap: [rule] | [in italic] (continued from front flap) | 27-line continuation of blurb in two paragraphs | [rule] | RINEHART & COMPANY, INC. | New York Toronto
Notes:
The publication date was taken from the verso of the title page of the fifth printing, TSG-A5.
