James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
FIGURES OF EARTH: A Comedy of Appearances
Hall Code |
Description |
FoE-B2 (E) |
Second English Printing 1924 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: FIGURES OF EARTH | A Comedy of Appearances | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | "Cascun se mir el jove Manuel, | Qu'era del mon lo plus valens dels pros." | LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. | VIGO STREET, W. MCMXXI (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] First British Edition January, 1922 | Reprinted September, 1924 | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE DEVONSHIRE PRESS, TORQUAY. (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane, September, 1924
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.4 cm. (7⅝ in.) x 18.4 cm. (5¼ in.)]; top edge trimmed and stained blue, else untrimmed. pp. xvi+288. (i) half-title; (ii) BY THE SAME AUTHOR (listing only Jurgen); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication page (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; (ix) half-title A FOREWORD (verso blank); xi-xv text of Foreword (verso blank); text (1)-288. Pp. (ix), (1), (69), (115), (170), and (233) are fly-titles. Pp. (vi), (x), and (2) are blank.
Binding:
Green cloth, black lettering and decorations on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed and stained blue, else untrimmed. Spine: [decorated rule] | FIGURES | OF EARTH | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [decorated rule] | THE BODLEY HEAD. Front cover: [all enclosed in an elaborately decorated ruled box] FIGURES OF EARTH | JAMES |BRANCH CABELL (see image above).
Dedication:
TO SIX MOST GALLANT CHAMPIONS IS DEDI- | CATED THIS HISTORY OF A CHAMPION: LESS | TO REPAY THAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE LARGE | DEBTS TO EACH OF THEM, COLLECTIVELY AT | OUTSET, AS THEREAFTER SERIATIM. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Not seen.