James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE CERTAIN HOUR (Dizain des Poëtes)
Hall Code |
Description |
CH-C2 (RS) |
Red Binding, Storisende Text 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: The Certain Hour | Dizain des Poëtes | [double rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [double rule] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1929 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1932
Collation:
Medium octavo [22.9 cm. (9 in.) x 15.2 cm. (6 in.)]; xvi + 286 pp.; (i) title page; (ii) publication data; (iii) dedication (verso blank); (v)-(xv) [ix]-[xix] Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); (xvii) Contents (verso blank); (1) beginning statement; (2) quotation; 3-4 Ballad of the Double-Soul; (5) fly-title, Auctorial Induction; (6) quotation; (7) 12-lines of untitled verse in four unequal stanzas (verso blank); 9-30 text of Auctorial Induction; (31) fly-title BOOK ONE; (32) quotation; (33) 10-lines of untitled verse in two stanzas (verso blank); 35-284 text; 285-286 Ballad of Plagiary. Pages (5), (31), (61), (89), (113), (137), (163), (187), (231), (235), and (263) are fly-titles. Pages (5), (31), (61), (89), (113), (137), (163), (187), (211), (231), (235), and (263) are fly-titles. Pages (iv), (xvi), (xviii), (8), (34), (60), (64), (92), (112), (116), (136), (140), (162), (166), (190), (210), (214), (234), (238), (262), (266), and (288) are blank.
Note: Beginning with page (v), which is numbered as p. [ix], the preliminary pages are paginated incorrectly. This is because they were originally numbered for the Storisende Edition. In this collation, the correct pagination for the prelims is given in (parentheses), while the numeration as printed is given in [brackets].
Binding:
Red cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed, tops gilded. Spine: THE | CERTAIN | HOUR | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device, centered within decorative border originally drawn by Frank Papé for the American illustrated edition of Domnei, Dom-D1 (P) (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To | ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL II | [sixteen line dedicatory verse in four quatrains] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Gold paper, with black lettering and decorations. Both the front and rear panels are enclosed in the same Papé border used for the front cover, with Papé illustrations within the borders on both front and rear. The drawing used for this jacket was originally used in the first illustrated edition of Figures of Earth, Hall FoE-C1 (P), facing p. 110 (see image above).
Spine:[triple rule] | THE | CERTAIN | HOUR [triple rule] | [rule] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule] | [rule] | McBRIDE | [rule]
Front panel: [illustration enclosed in decorative border, both drawn by Frank Papé. See note above.]
Rear panel: [same as front panel]
Front flap: [flush right] Net $5.00 | [rule] THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [list of 18 Cabell titles published by McBride] | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers New York
Rear flap: [rule] | [advertisement for Travel Magazine | [rule] | [rule] | [coupon for Book News] | [rule]
Notes:
For a more detailed discussion of the "Red Storisendes", see our page on The "Red Storisende" Bindings.
