James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SPECIAL DELIVERY: A Packet of Replies
Hall Code |
Description |
SD-B1 (E) |
English Edition 1934 |
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] |LONDON | [rule] | PHILIP ALLAN & COMPANY, LTD. (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1934 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF | AMERICA AND PUBLISHED BY PHILIP | ALLAN AND COMPANY, LIMITED, AT | QUALITY HOUSE, 69 GREAT RUSSELL | STREET, LONDON, W.C.1. (see image above).
Publication:
London: Philip Allan, 1934
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.2 cm. (7 15/16 in.) x 14.3 cm. (5⅝ in.)]; x + 274 + 1 blank leaf; (i) half-title; (ii) BY BRANCH CABELL | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication page (verso blank); (vii) CONTENTS (verso blank); (ix) 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). 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:
Black cloth, green lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed, top stained green. Spine: SPECIAL | DELIVERY | [decorated rule] | BRANCH | CABELL | PHILIP | ALLAN (see image above).
Dedication:
For | GEORGE T. KEATING | [14-line acrostic verse in three stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper; lettering in black and white, decorations in silver, black, and white (see image above).
Spine: Black field, lettering in white: [in decorative script] SPECIAL DELIVERY | Branch Cabell | [decoration of a horse in black on a silver ground] | [in decorative script] Special Delivery | Branch Cabell | [decoration of a horse in black on a silver ground] | [in decorative script] Special Delivery | Branch Cabell | [decoration of a horse in black on a silver ground] | [in decorative script] Special Delivery | Branch Cabell | [in black decorative script on a silver ground] Philip | Allan
Front panel: Black field, [decorations in silver by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer, signed at lower right] [black italic on silver field] SPECIAL DELIVERY | Branch Cabell
Rear panel: [blurbs for three titles published by Philip Allan] | [rule] | [in italic] PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD. | 69 GREAT RUSSEL STREET, LONDON, W.C. I | [flush right] [rule] Unwin Bothers Limited | London and Woking
Front flap: [black lettering on silver ground] [in italic] SPECIAL | DELIVERY | By | Branch Cabell | [28-line blurb] | [in italic] Published by | PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD. | 69 Gt. Russell Street | LONDON | W. C. I [flush right] 8/6 | NET
Rear flap: blank
Notes:
This was the only one of Mr. Cabell's titles to be published in England by Philip Allan.
