James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
BEYOND LIFE: Dizain des Demiurges
SS Code |
Hall Code |
Hall Description |
Silver Stallion Description |
*BL-B6 (ML) |
BL-B3 (ML) |
Third Modern Library Edition |
Sixth Modern Library Printing [Spring 1929] |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto type "F": [All enclosed in a double rule] BEYOND LIFE | [in italic] Dizain des Démiurges | [ a line] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [ a line] | Introduction by | GUY HOLT| [ a line] | Bernhard Torchbearer device | [4 lines in italic] "Many a man lives a burden to the earth: | but a good book is the precious life-blood of | a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up | on purpose to a life beyond life" | [ a line] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | [ a line] | PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Copyright, 1919, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | FOR THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC., BY H. WOLFF (see image above).
Publication:
New York. No date, but catalog at rear, printed contiguously with the text, can be dated to Spring 1929 (includes The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyoder Dostoevsky, but not Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer) (see image above).
Collation:
Sextodecimo [16.8 cm. (6 5/8-inches) x 10.8 cm. (4 1/4-inches)]. [i] half-title; [ii] advt; [iii] title; [iv] copyright; [v] dedication; [vi] blank; [vii-xvii] (marked ix-xix) Introduction; [xviii] blank; [xix] Contents; [xx] blank; [1] I | WE APPROACH; [2] 13 line passage; 3-358 text; [359-362] catalog.
Binding:
Toledano/Kamins Transitional Binding Style 4.5. Balloon cloth in red or green. This binding has been reported in red, brown, green, or blue for other titles, so other colors are possible. Spine all in gilt: [Double rule] | BEYOND | LIFE | [Rule] | CABELL | MODERN | LIBRARY | [Double rule]. Front in gilt: Bernhard Torchbearer device. (see images above).
Dedication:
[double rule] To | GUY HOLT | [acrostic verse of seven lines] | [double rule] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Bernhard design endpapers, as used in Modern Library titles 1925-1929 (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Style DJ-G dust jacket, yellow paper with blue bands, with style d rear panel. This jacket can be dated to Spring 1929 by the catalog on the inside (includes The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyoder Dostoevsky, but not Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer).
Dust Jacket Outside:
Spine: [wide blue band] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [narrow blue band] | [vertically down spine] BEYOND LIFE | Bernhard Torchbearer device | [narrow blue band] | 25 | [wide blue band].
Front Panel: [wide blue band] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [narrow blue band] | BEYOND LIFE | Bernhard Torchbearer device | Introduction by Guy Holt | 8 lines text | [narrow blue band] | THE MODERN LIBRARY [wide blue band].
Rear Panel: [wide blue band] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | Books that have something to say | to the Modern Mind | [narrow blue band] | [in italic] How many MODERN LIBRARY books | have YOU read? | 9 lines of text |[enclosed within dashed lines] 11 line Order Form | [narrow blue band] | The Modern Library • Inc • new york | [in italic] Canada • THE MACMILLAN COMPANY of CANADA • ltd • [in italic] Toronto | [wide blue band].
Front Flap: [wide blue band] | MODERN LIBRARY BOOKS | 95 CENTS A COPY | (ONE DOLLAR IN CANADA) | [narrow blue band] | 21 lines of advertising material | [narrow blue band] | [in italic] Look inside jacket [arrow device].
Rear Flap: [in italic] On the inside of this jacket is a list, | arranged alphabetically by authors, of | all the titles in the Modern Library. | It is worthy of your attention. | [narrow blue band] | 230 lines of advertising material |[arrow device] [in italic] Look inside jacket.
Dust Jacket Inside:
A COMPLETE LIST OF TITLES IN THE MODERN LIBRARY | [triple rule] | 4 column listing of titles in The Modern Library | [triple rule] | A NEW TITLE IS ADDED ONE THE 25th DAY OF EVERY MONTH (see image above).
Notes:
For an explanation of the terms used on this page that are specific to The Modern Library, see the Cabell in The Modern Library page.
