James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
BEYOND LIFE: Dizain des Demiurges
Hall Code |
Hall Description |
Silver Stallion Description |
*BL-B8 (ML) |
Third Modern Library Edition |
Eighth Modern Library Printing [Fall 1932] |
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] Manufactured in the United States of America | Bound for THE MODERN LIBRARY [in italic] by H. Wolff (see image above).
Publication:
New York. No date, but catalog at rear, printed contiguously with the text, can be dated to Fall 1932 (includes The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, but not Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis) (see images 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] printer's notice (no copyright data); [v] dedication; [vi] blank; [vii] Contents; [viii] blank; [ix-xix] Introduction; [xx] blank; [1] I | WE APPROACH; [2] 13 line passage; 3-358 text; [359-363] catalog; [364] blank.
Binding:
Toledano Binding Style 7. Balloon cloth in blue. This binding has been reported in red, brown, green, and blue for other titles, so other colors are possible.Spine all in gilt: BEYOND | LIFE | [Rule] | CABELL | ML device| MODERN | LIBRARY. Front in gilt: Kent Torchbearer device (smaller than Style 5). (see image above).
Dedication:
[double rule] To | GUY HOLT | [acrostic verse of seven lines] | [double rule] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Kent design endpapers as used on Modern Library titles 1929-1967 (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 1932 by the catalog on the inside (includes Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser, but not The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens).
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] In 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] | [vertically up the left side] MODERN LIBRARY GIANTS | [in italic] Every Modern Library Giant is complete and unabridged and over 1200 pages long. | 2 columns list of 5 Giant titles | [triple vertical rule] | 4 column listing of titles in The Modern Library | [triple rule] (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.
