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-B1 (E) |
English Edition 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] | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. (see image above).
Title page verso: PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., n.d. (1930)
Collation:
Medium octavo [24.4 cm. (9⅝ in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)]; Pp. xxviii + 292. (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) cancel 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. An extra spine label is inserted after p. (292).
Binding:
Black cloth, green paper label on spine, lettering and decorations in black, cover blank. Top edge trimmed and stained green, else untrimmed. Spine label: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] BETWEEN | DAWN AND | SUNRISE | selections from | the works of | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL | THE | BODLEY HEAD (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:
Blue and brown marbled paper, blank except for a white paper spine label lettered in black (see image above).
Spine label: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] BETWEEN | DAWN AND | SUNRISE | selections from | the works of | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL | THE | BODLEY HEAD
Notes:
Printed from imported sheets with a cancel title page. Not mentioned in Brussel. Hall (p. 75) states "First Published in 1930," but the copy examined by The Silver Stallion has neither a date nor any copyright data on any page. Perhaps there are two states of the title page?
