James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
BETWEEN DAWN AND SUNRISE: Selections from
the Writings of James Branch Cabell, chosen with
an Introduction and Initiatory Notes by John Macy
Hall Code |
Description |
BDS-A1 |
First Printing 1930 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [decorative script] Between | Dawn and Sunrise | SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF | [decorative script] James Branch Cabell | CHOSEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION | & INITIATORY NOTES BY | JOHN MACY | [decoration] | [decorative script] New York | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1930 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | FIRST PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1930 | PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY | THE QUINN & BODEN CO., INC., RAHWAY, N. J. (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1930
Collation:
Medium octavo [24.4 cm. (9⅝ in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)]; Pp. xxviii + 292. (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-viii The Contents; ix-xvii The Introduction (verso blank); (1) fly-title; (2) quotation from John Macy; 3-291 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (39), (75), (95), (113), (169), (211), (235), (253), (267), and (281) are fly-titles. Pages (94), (134), (252), and (266) are blank.
Binding:
Black cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine, covers blank. Top edge trimmed and stained (various colors noted), else untrimmed. Spine: [decoration] | [decorative script] Cabell | [decoration] | Between | Dawn and | Sunrise | [decoration] | MACY | [decoration] McBRIDE (see image above).
Dedication:
FOR | [decorative script] Virginia Randolph Ellett | WITH THE AFFECTIONATE ADMIRATION | ALIKE OF BOTH THE EDITOR AND THE EDITED (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, blue background on spine and front panel. White lettering edged in black on spine and front panel, else black (see image above).
Spine: CABELL | [rule] | BETWEEN | DAWN AND | SUNRISE |[rule] | MACY | McBRIDE
Front panel: BETWEEN DAWN | AND SUNRISE | [illustration, see note below] | [in italic] | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Edited by | JOHN MACY
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] BETWEEN DAWN | AND SUNRISE | [in italic] Selections from the Writings of | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Chosen With an Introduction and Initiatory Notes by | JOHN MACY |
Front flap:[flush right] Net $3.00 | [decorative rule] | [rule] | [in italic] Important New Biographies | [rule] | [blurbs for three biographies published by McBride] | rule] | [in italic] At All Booksellers | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 7 West 16th St. NEW YORK | [decorative rule]
Rear flap: [rule] [advertisement for Travel Magazine] | [rule] | [rule | coupon for Book News | [rule]
Note: The lovely art deco picture on the front of the dustjacket is a colored version of an illustration originally done by Ray Coyle for the first American illustrated version of Jurgen (Jur-C1, 1923). In that book, the drawing is titled "For I See That Which All Men See".
