James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE CORDS OF VANITY
Hall Code |
Description |
CoV-A1 |
First Printing 1909 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: The Cords of Vanity | [in italic] By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | publisher's device | New York | Doubleday, Page & Company | 1909 (see image above).
Title page verso: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION| INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN | COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY | PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1909 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, March, 1909
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.5 cm. (7 ¾ in.) x 13 cm. (5 ⅛ in.)], xx + 342 with tipped-in frontispiece. Page (1) half-title (verso blank); tipped-in frontispiece; (iii) title page; (v) Dedication (verso blank); (vii) six-line prose quotation (verso blank); ix-x Contents; xi-xx Prologue; (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-341 text; (342-344) blank.
Binding:
Red ribbed cloth; white printing on spine and front; all edges trimmed. Spine: CORDS | [in italic] of | VANITY | Cabell | DOUBLEDAY | PAGE & CO. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single line blind rule] [at top, enclosed in a single line box] CORDS | [in italic] of | VANITY |[at foot] James Branch Cabell (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Painting of a man seated (attributed by Brussel to C. Coles Phillips); subscribed "I ADORED WITHIN THESE FOUR YEARS PRECISELY A DOZEN GIRLS, | AND . . . WROTE VERSES OF THEM." (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | GABRIELLE BROOKE MONCURE | [in italic] Plus sapit vulgus, quia lantum, quantum opus est, sapit. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Not seen.
See issue notes on index page for The Cords of Vanity.