James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE CREAM OF THE JEST: A Comedy of Evasions
[bound with]
THE LINEAGE OF LICHFIELD: An Essay in Eugenics
Hall Code |
Description |
CoJ-E2 (RS) |
Red Binding, Storisende Text 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: The Cream of the Jest: | The Lineage of Lichfield | Two Comedies of Evasion | [double rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [double rule] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1922, 1930 | 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.)]; xxviii + 298 pp.; (i) title page; (ii) publication data; (iii)-(xvii) [vii]-[xxi] Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); (xix)-(xxi) [xxiii]-[xxv] Contents of The Cream of the Jest (verso blank); (xxiii) [xxvii] Contents of The Lineage of Lichfield (verso blank); (xxv) half-title, The Cream of the Jest (verso blank); (xxvii) dedication, The Cream of the Jest (verso blank); (1) fly-title, PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-243 text, The Cream of the Jest (verso blank); (245) half-title, The Lineage of Lichfield (verso blank); (247) fly-title, The Epistle Dedicatory; (248) quotation; 249-259 text of The Epistle Dedicatory (verso blank); (261) fly-title; (262) quotation; 263-285 text; 286-287 Bibliographic Summary (verso blank); (289) fly-title, An Epilogue; (290) quotation; 291-298 text of An Epilogue. Pages (1), (33), (89), (119), (163), (209), (237), (247), (261), and (288) are fly-titles. Pages (xviii), (xxii), (xxiv), (xxvi), (xxviii), (88), (208), (244), (246), (260), and (287) are blank.
Note: Beginning with page (iii), which is numbered as p. [vii], 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: CREAM OF | THE JEST | [rule] | LINEAGE OF | LICHFIELD | [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).
Dedications:
The Cream of the Jest: [in italic] To | LOUISA NELSON | "AT ME AB AMORE TUO DIDUCET |NULLA SENECTUS." (see image above).
The Lineage of Lichfield: p. 247, fly-title, THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY | TO LEWIS GALANTIÈRE (verso blank); 249-259 text of The Epistle Dedicatory (verso blank).
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 as the frontispiece for the first illustrated edition of The Cream of the Jest, Hall CoJ-C1 (P) (see image above).
Spine: [triple rule] | THE | CREAM | OF THE | JEST | [rule] | THE | LINEAGE | OF | LICHFIELD | [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.
