James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THESE RESTLESS HEADS: A Trilogy of Romantics
Hall Code |
Description |
TRH-A2b |
Literary Guild Edition, Variant Binding 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all within art deco border by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer] THESE | RESTLESS HEADS | [in italic] A Trilogy of Romantics | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] " Yet must there hover in these restless heads | One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, | Which into words no virtue can digest." | DECORATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS | SAMUEL BERNARD SCHAEFFER | the literary guild | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1932 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] First Published, February, 1932 | Second Printing before Publication | THESE RESTLESS HEADS | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: The Literary Guild, February, 1932.
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.6 cm. (8⅛ in.) x 15 cm. (5⅞ in.)]; pp. xix+256; (i) half title; (ii) frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; (ix) fly-title, (x) quotation from The Mikado; xi-xiv Introduction; (1) fly-title; (2) quotation from A Midsummer Night's Dream; 3-253 text (verso blank); (254) Bibliography (verso blank). Pages (1x), (1), (19), (83), (127), (187), and (231) are fly-titles. Pages (ii), (82), (126), (186), (254), (256) are blank.
Binding:
Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, front cover blank, top edge trimmed else untrimmed. Spine: [in decorative script] These | Restless | Heads | Cabell | Literary | Guild (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | JOHN MACY | [14-line acrostic verse in three stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
No dustjacket or slipcase has been noted.
Notes:
This issue of THESE RESTLESS HEADS is identical to the trade issue ("Second Printing Before Publication"), TRH-A2, except for the binding, a slight simplication of the preliminary pages, and the title page. On the title page, the publisher's name, robert m. mcbride & company, has been replaced with the literary guild. The more common binding of this issue, in mottled boards, TRH-A2a, was issued together, in the same slipcase and a matching binding, with a Literary Guild issue of the revised edition of Carl Van Doren's JAMES BRANCH CABELL, A11c. That work was also issued by The Literary Guild in a matching black binding, A11d, but it is not clear to the present compilers if the two were issued together, or if these are secondary bindings and the two were sold separately. Can any reader help, or confirm if the two titles were issued together in slipcase?
