James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

FIGURES OF EARTH: A Comedy of Appearances

Hall Code
Description
FoE-A6 (K)
Sixth Printing 1925

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COMPILATION

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. | 1925 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1921, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [rule] | [in italic] Sixth Printing, October, 1925 | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] Published, February, 1921 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride, October, 1925.

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.

Dust jacket:

White paper lettered in black (see image above).

Front panel: FIGURES | OF EARTH | [first word in italic] By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | 21-line sales puff in three paragraphs | [double rule] ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. [in italic] Publishers | SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET [two devices of three dots each] NEW YORK

Spine: FIGURES | OF | EARTH | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in italic] Sixth | Printing | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | McBride

Rear panel: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Certain Opinions | [appraisals of Cabell's work by nine reviewers] | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | PUBLISHERS [two devices as -:- -:-] NEW YORK

Front flap: Price $2.50 Net | ARE YOU | INTERESTED IN | BOOK NEWS? | [9-line advertisement followed by mail-in coupon]

Rear flap: :: The Books of :: | James Branch Cabell | [double rule] | 15 titles listed

Notes:

This is the last Kalki edition of this title to be issued with the original text. With the seventh printing, the text was revised to tie the story more closely to The Silver Stallion.