James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE EAGLE'S SHADOW: A Comedy of Purse-Strings
Hall Code |
Description |
Eag-D2 (RS) |
Red Binding, Storisende Text 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: The Eagle's Shadow | A Comedy of Purse-Strings | [double rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [double rule] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1923, 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.)]; xx + 284 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)-(xix) [xxi]-[xxiii] Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-283 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (63), (103), (143), (191), (215), and (249) are fly-titles.
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 | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | [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 | MARTHA LOUISE PATTESON BRANCH | IN TRUST THAT THE ENTERPRISE MAY BE JUDGED | LESS BY THE MERITS OF ITS FACTOR | THAN BY THOSE OF ITS PATRON (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 1st illustrated edition of The Cream of the Jest, Hall CoJ-C1 (P), on page 163 (see image above).
Spine:[triple rule] | THE | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | [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.
