James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE FIRST GENTLEMAN OF AMERICA: A Comedy of Conquest
Hall Code |
Description |
FG-A1 |
First Printing 1942 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [enclosed in triple ruled box] THE FIRST GENTLEMAN | OF AMERICA | * * | [in italic] A COMEDY | OF CONQUEST | * | BY BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "My country, 'tis of thee." | [below box, at base of page] FARAR & RINEHART, INC. | NEW YORK TORONTO (see image above).
Title page verso: {Farrar, Rinehart device] | COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | 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., 1942.
Collation:
Crown octavo [21.3 cm. (8⅜ in.) x 14.6 cm. (5¾ in.)]; x + 310 pp.; (i) half-title; (ii) By Branch Cabell (list of books); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data); (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) Note as to Heirs and Assigns (verso blank); (ix) Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title; (2) quotation; 3-280 text; (281) fly-title EDITORIAL NOTE; (282) quotation; 302 text of EDITORIAL NOTE; (303) fly-title Bibliography; (304) quotation; 305-309 text of Bibliography (verso blank). Pages (1), (49), (125), (211), (281), and (303) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Brick cloth in color (but not texture) resembling that used for the Kalki editions, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edges trimmed and stained (both green and brick red stained copies have been noted), else trimmed. Spine: [rule] | THE | FIRST | GENTLE- | MAN | OF | AMERICA | [rule] | BRANCH | CABELL | FARRAR & RINEHART. Front cover: [Kalki device; centered] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | A. J. HANNA | [7-line acrostic verse, with one additional word interpolated between lines 3 and 4.] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, spine and front panel printed over a background and illustration by (Ruth Mary?) "Hallock." Text and decorations in black, brown, blue, and red (see image above).
Spine: [in black] THE | FIRST | [in brown] GENTLE- | MAN | [in black] OF | AMERICA ] [device of white star] | [in black script] Farrar & | Rinehart
Front panel: [in brown] branch cabell | [illustration] | [device of brown star] [in blue] THE FIRST | [in brown] GENTLEMAN | [in blue] OF AMERICA [device of brown star]
Rear panel: [all text in blue] [double rule in red] | Other Books by Branch Cabell | [blurbs for Hamlet had an Uncle and The King was in his Counting House] | [double rule in red] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | New York Toronto
Front flap: [all text in blue] [flush right] Net $2.50 | [double rule in red] | The First Gentleman | of America | by | Branch Cabell | [22-line blurb] | [in italic] (continued on back flap) | [double rule in red] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | New York Toronto
Rear flap: [all text in blue] [double rule in red] | [in italic] (continued from front flap) | 29-lines continued blurb | [double rule in red] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | New York Toronto
