Full Title:

Title page recto: [in decorative script] Figures | [within lower part of "g"] of | Earth | [in italic] A Comedy of Appearances | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [in italic] "Cascun se mir el jove Manuel, | Qu'era del mon lo plus valens dels pros." | [rule] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | 1923 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1921, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [rule] | Copyright 1919, 1920 by The Century Company. | Copyright, 1920, by McClure's Magazine, Inc. | Copyright, 1920, by The Ridgway Company. | [in italic] Second Printing, February, 1921 | Third Printing, April, 1921 | Fourth Printing, April, 1923 | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] Published, February, 1921 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride, April, 1923.

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; top edge trimmed, otherwise untrimmed; 2 blank leaves, pp. xvi + 364; p. (i) Half-title; p. (ii) Books by Mr. Cabell; p. (iii) Title page; p. (iv) publication data; p. (v) dedication, verso blank; p. vii-viii Contents; p. (ix) Fly-title, verso blank; pp. xi-xvi A Foreward; pp. (1)-356, text; pp. (357-364) are blank; pp. (1), (85), (141), (211), and (287) are Fly-titles; pp. (84), (140), and (210) are blank.

Binding:

Kalki binding: Brick-red cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. Spine: FIGURES | OF | EARTH | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: Kalki device at lower right (see image above).

Dedication:

[rule] TO SIX MOST GALLANT CHAMPIONS IS DEDICATED | THIS HISTORY OF A CHAMPION: LESS TO REPAY | THAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE LARGE DEBTS TO EACH | OF THEM, COLLECTIVELY AT OUTSET, AS THERE- | AFTER SERIATIM. | [rule] (see image above).

There are additional dedications for each of the six books on the Fly-titles.

Notes:

Text is unchanged from the 1921 first printing.