James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: A Parcel of Reconsiderations
Hall Code |
Description |
L&G-A1a |
First Printing, Limited Edition 1934 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [in italic] Ladies and Gentlemen | A PARCEL OF RECRIMINATIONS | [in italic] By | BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "These, being dead, have been | made the forgers of many lies, | now that their memorable doings | are proverbs of dust, and their de- | fences are defences of clay." | 1934 | [in italic] Robert M. McBride | & Company, New York (see image above).
Title page verso: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN | COPYRIGHT, 1934 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES | OF AMERICA | FIRST EDITION (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1934
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.3 cm. (8 in.) x 14.6 cm. (5¾ in.)]; x + 306 pp., + dedication leaf and 2 blank leaves not counted in pagination; (i) half-title; (ii) books by Branch Cabell; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (not counted in pagination) limitation (verso blank); (v) dedication (verso blank); vii Bibliographical note (verso blank); ix-x Contents; (1) fly-title (verso blank); (3) fly-title PROLOGUE; (4) quotation; 5-304 text; (305) Palinode (verso blank); 2 blank leaves. Pages (1), (3), (17), (31), (43), (55), (73), (87), (99), (109), (123), (137), (155), (169), (181), (195), (211), (227), (241), (263), (279), and (289) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (2), (16), (42), (54), (86), (98), (108), (122), (136), (154), (168), (194), (210), (226), (240), (278), (288), and (306) are blank.
Binding:
Silver cloth, black lettering and decorations on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: * | LADIES | AND | GENTLEMEN | * * | BRANCH | CABELL | * | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).
Limitation:
OF THE FIRST EDITION OF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN | 153 COPIES (OF WHICH 120 ARE FOR SALE) HAVE | BEEN NUMBERED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. | THIS IS COPY NUMBER [handwritten in red] 35 | [signature in black]
Dedication:
[in italic] My Dear Richard Butler Glaenzer: | [24-line dedication in the form of a letter of three paragraphs] | [in italic] Ophelia, Virginia Branch Cabell | June, 1934 (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked tissue dust jacket and a cardboard slipcase covered in silver paper, with the Cabell family coat of arms on the front (see image above).
