James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THERE WERE TWO PIRATES; a Comedy of Division
Hall Code |
Description |
TWTP-A2 |
Second Printing 1946 |
COMPILATION:
Full Title:
THERE WERE | TWO | PIRATES | A COMEDY OF DIVISION | (decoration) | by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | Decorations by | John O'Hara Cosgrove II | FARRAR, STRAUS AND COMPANY, INC. | NEW YORK | 1946 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, Inc. "PUBLISHED AUGUST 1946 | SECOND PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1946" (see image above).
Collation:
8vo [21 cm (8¼ in.) x 13½ cm (5¼-in.)] consisting of pp. xiv + 121 as follows: (i) Half-title; (ii) frontispiece (see image above); (iii) Title page (see image above); (v) list of contents; (vi) Works by James Branch Cabell; (vii) Dedication (verso blank); pp. ix-xii Editorial Note; Illustrations pp. (xiv), 14, 32, 66, 96; Fly titles pp. 1, 15, 33, 67, 97; Text pp. 3-13, 17-31, 35-65, 69-94, 99-121; p. (122) blank.
Binding:
Black cloth. All edges trimmed. Gilt Kalki device on front cover. Vertical gilt lettering on spine: JAMES BRANCH CABELL device THERE WERE TWO PIRATES device (in two lines) FARRAR, STRAUS | AND COMPANY (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Line drawing of two figures on stone bridge with short verse below, "Did ever pirate roll | His soul in guilty dreaming, | And wake to find that soul | With peace and virtue beaming?" (see image above).
Dedication:
On p. (vii): FOR MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS | Who more than any other person has given fame to the | old ways of Florida; whose actual home is beyond | the City Gates; and whom I am proud to rank as a friend (see image above). (verso blank)
Dust jacket:
Salmon and black decorated front panel, black with salmon lettering on spine (see image above).
Endpapers:
Salmon background with brick decorations (see image above).
Notes:
Marjorie Rawlings was unhappy with the location of her dedication in the first printing, on the verso of the title page. In a letter to her dated August 17, 1946, Cabell blamed the oversight on the publisher, and promised that this oversight would be rectified in the second printing. It was. (Letter reprinted on p. 281 of The Letters of James Branch Cabell; edited by Edward Wagenknecht; University of Okahoma Press; Norman, Oklahoma; 1975).
One minor issue point on p. 17. In the first printing, the name of Jose Gasparilla's ship is Gasparilla; in the second printing it is given as San Jose.
