James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: A Parcel of Reconsiderations
Hall Code |
Description |
L&G-B1 |
Reprint Edition 1968 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [in italic] Ladies and Gentlemen | A PARCEL OF RECRIMINATIONS | [in italic] By | JAMES 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." | Essay Index Reprint Series | BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS, INC. | Freeport, New York (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright 1934, Renewed 1962 By Margaret Freeman Cabell | Reprinted 1968 by Arrangement With | Margaret Freeman Cabell | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: | 68-14897 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
Collation:
Crown octavo [22 cm. (8⅝ in.) x 15 cm. (5⅞ in.)]; viii + 306 pp., + 2 blank leaves; (i) half-title (verso blank)+; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii Bibliographical note; (viii, numbered as "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:
Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed. Spine: LADIES | AND | GENTLEMEN | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | BOOKS | FOR | LIBRARIES (see image above).
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:
Not issued in dust jacket.
Notes:
Julius Rothman reviewed this edition of Ladies and Gentleman in The Cabellian, Vol. I No. 2, 1969. In his review, Mr. Rothman noted that the publisher stated that this edition consisted of "about 600 copies."
