James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SPECIAL DELIVERY: A Packet of Replies
Hall Code |
Description |
SD-A1a |
First Printing, Limited Edition 1933 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: SPECIAL DELIVERY | [rule] | A PACKET OF REPLIES | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [device of three stars] | [in italic] "Heaven send thee a good delivery!" | [device of three stars] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXIII | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1933 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | * | [in italic] SPECIAL DELIVERY | * | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [in italic] FIRST PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1933 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1933
Collation:
Royal octavo [25 cm. (9¾ in.) x 16.2 cm. (6⅜ in.)]; xii + 274 + 1 blank leaf; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) limitation page (verso blank); (vii) dedication page (verso blank); (ix) CONTENTS (verso blank); (xi) opening statement by the author (verso blank); (1) fly-title; (2) quotation; 3-270 text (verso blank); 271-272 Bibliographical; last leaf blank. Pages (1), (16), (43), (67), (93), (117), (141), (165), (187), (213), (237), and (261) are fly-titles. The ten letters are on pages (17), (45), (69), (95), (119), (143), (167), (189), (215), and (239), each letter printed on a reproduction of Mr. Cabell's stationary with a printed signature and tipped in. Pages (14), (17), (18), (42), (44), (46), (66), (68), (70), (92), (94), (96), (118), (120), (142), (144), (164), (166), (168), (186), (188), (190), (214), (216), (236), (238), (240), (260), and (271) are blank.
Binding:
Half-bound, art. vellum spine and corners over silver paper. Silver lettering on spine, black decoration on front cover, all untrimmed and uncut. Spine: * | SPECIAL | DELIVERY | * * | BRANCH | CABELL | * | McBRIDE. Front cover: [paper label, centered, with Cabell coat of arms, drawn by Mr. Cabell, in black] (see image above).
Limitation:
THE LARGE PAPER EDITION OF SPECIAL DELIVERY | CONSISTS OF TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN SIGNED | AND NUMBERED COPIES, OF WHICH ONE HUNDRED | AND SIXTY-NINE ARE FOR SALE | THIS IS COPY 122 [hand written in red] | [signed by the author] (see image above).
Dedication:
For | GEORGE T. KEATING | [14-line acrostic verse in three stanzas] (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).
