James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
GALLANTRY; Dizain des Fêtes Galantes
Hall Code |
Description |
Gal-B1 (K) |
Revised Edition, First Printing 1922 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title recto: [in italic] Gallantry | Dizain des Fêtes Galantes | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | LOUIS UNTERMEYER | [rule] | [in italic] "Half in maquerade, playing the drawing-room or | garden comedy of life, these persons have upon them, | not less than the landscape among the accidents of | which they group themselves with fittingness, a | certain light that we should seek for in vain upon | anything real." | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK - - - - - - - 1922 (see image above).
Title verso: Copyright 1907, by | HARPER & BROTHERS | [rule] | Revised Edition, | Copyright 1922, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] | Published, June, 1922 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., June 14, 1922.
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; pp. xxii + 346; (i) half-title; (ii) [within a single ruled box] BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) Dedication (verso blank); v11-xii Introduction by Louis Untermeyer; (xiii) Contents (verso blank); xv-xix Epistle Dedicatory; (xx) blank; (xxi-xxii) Prologue; 1-342 text; (343-346) blank; (1), (37), (61), (89), (109), (137), (169), (245), (273), (301), and (331) are fly-titles; (2), (38), (62), (90), (110), (138), (170), (246), (274), (302), and (332) carry Dramatis Personæ for the stories they precede; (36), (60), (88), (168); (244), and (330) are blank.
Binding:
Red-brown cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on cover and spine. Spine: GALLANTRY | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE; Front cover: Kalki device at lower right (see image above).
Dedication:
[rule] | TO | JAMES ROBINSON BRANCH | THIS VOLUME, SINCE IT TREATS OF GALLANTRY, IS | DEDICATED, AS BOTH IN LIFE AND DEATH | AN EXPONENT OF THE WORLD'S | HIGHEST MEANING | [in italic] "A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool | understand this . . . Shall the throne of iniquity | have a fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief | by a law?" | [rule] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper. All printing in black (see image above).
Spine: GALLANTRY | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [McBride liberty bell device] | McBRIDE
Front panel: GALLANTRY | [in italic] New and Revised Edition | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | With an introduction by Louis Untermeyer | [16 line quote from Hugh Walpole] | -HUGH WALPOLE in [in italic] The Yale Review. | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO., [in italic] Publishers | SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET :: NEW YORK
Rear panel: The Books of James Branch Cabell | [double rule] | [list of 13 titles] | [in italic] At all Bookstores | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO., [in italic] Publishers | SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET :: NEW YORK
Front flap; $2.00 net
Rear flap: [blank]
Notes:
The word "WORLD'S" in line five of the dedication is a misprint. It should read "WORD'S". Midshipman James Robinson Branch was killed in a hazing accident November 5, 1905, at Annapolis. This error was corrected in the second Kalki printing, Gal-B2(K).
