James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
FIGURES OF EARTH: A Comedy of Appearances
Hall Code |
Description |
FoE-A8 (GD) |
Reprint Edition n.d. |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a grey floral border] FIGURES | OF EARTH | [in italic] A Comedy of Appearances | [device] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Author of "Jurgen"| [device] | "Cascun se mir el jove Manuel, | Qu'era del mon lo plus valens dels pros." | [device] | GROSSET & DUNLAP | PUBLISHERS | [in italic] by arrangement with Robert M. McBride & Company (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright, 1921, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [rule] | [in italic] Seventh Printing, November, 1926 | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] Published, February, 1921 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d.
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.3 cm. (8 in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)]; top edge trimmed and stained green, otherwise untrimmed; 3 blank leaves, pp. xvi + 362; 1 blank leaf not counted in pagination; 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; [fly-title omitted, text starts with page paginated as "3"] pp. 3-356 (as marked) text; pp. (357-364) are blank; pp. (ix), (85), (141), (211), and (287) are Fly-titles; pp. (84), (140), and (210) are blank.
Oddly, the second fly-title leaf, pp. (1)-(2) in the McBride printing, has been omitted, which puts the marked pagination two digits off the actual page count.
Binding:
Green cloth; black, silver, and blind lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained green, else untrimmed. Spine: [enclosed in a silver box on a black field, text in silver, figure in silver and green centered ] FIGURES | OF | EARTH | [in black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL |GROSSET | & DUNLAP. Front cover: [enclosed in a silver box on a black field, text in silver, figure in silver and green centered ] FIGURES | OF | EARTH | [in black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [G&D logo blind stamped in lower right corner] (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; silver, black, white and green lettering and decorations. Art-deco cover art by Alfred Skrenda covers the entire spine and front panel, lettering overprinted (see image above).
Spine: [rule] | [in green] FIGURES | [rule] | [rule] | [in green] OF | [rule] | [rule] | [in green] EARTH | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [G&D logo in black on green field] | [in white] GROSSET | & DUNLAP
Front panel: [rule] | [in green] FIGURES OF | [rule] | [rule] | [in green] EARTH | [rule] | [in black, center right] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | AUTHOR OF | "JURGEN" | [at right, bottom of panel, in silver italic] The story of a swineherd who became a Count | in that mythical country of Poictesme where | "almost anything is more than likely to happen."
Rear panel: [enclosed in triple decorated ruled box, on a green field] [left] photo of Mr. Cabell, subscript JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [right, in italic, 13-line biography of Mr. Cabell] | Figures of Earth| [in italic] by James Branch Cabell | Author of "Jurgen" | [12-line blurb in two paragraphs, followed by excerpt from a review] | [triple decorated rule] | [on green field] GROSSET & DUNLAP [in italic] Publishers NEW YORK | [triple decorated rule]
Front flap: [all enclosed in triple decorated ruled box, on a green field] [in italic] A Complete List of the | Novels of Distinction | [list of 55 titles] | [in italic] (continued on back inside flap) | [double rule] | GROSSET & DUNLAP :: NEW YORK
Rear flap: [all enclosed in triple decorated ruled box, on a green field] Novels of Distinction | [in italic] (continued from front inside flap) | [list of 53 titles, including 15 BOOKS OF GENERAL INTEREST following the Novels of Distinction] | [double rule] GROSSET & DUNLAP :: NEW YORK
Notes:
This Grosset & Dunlap edition is a reprint of the 7th McBride edition, with a new title page. The text of the 7th printing was modified to tie the story in more closely with The Silver Stallion.
