James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
GALLANTRY; Dizain des Fêtes Galantes
Hall Code |
Description |
Gal-B3 (K) |
Revised Edition, Third Printing 1927 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title recto: Gallantry | [in italic] Dizain des Fêtes Galantes | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | LOUIS UNTERMEYER | "HALF IN MASQUERADE, PLAYING THE DRAWING-ROOM | OR GARDEN COMEDY OF LIFE, THESE PERSONS HAVE UPON | THEM, NOT LESS THAN THE LANDSCAPE AMONG THE ACCI- | DENTS OF WHICH THEY GROUP THEMSELVES WITH FITTING- | NESS, A CERTAIN LIGHT THAT WE SHOULD SEEK FOR IN | VAIN UPON ANYTHING REAL." | [McBride liberty bell device] | NEW YORK | | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1927 (see image above).
Title verso: REVISED EDITION, COPYRIGHTED, 1922 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PUBLISHED JUNE, 1922 | [in italic] Third Printing, August, 1927 | GALLANTRY | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., August, 1927.
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; pp. xxii + 346; (i) half-title; (ii) 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 WORD'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 | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in italic] Third | Printing | [McBride liberty bell device] | McBRIDE
Front panel: GALLANTRY | [in decorative script] Dizain des Fêtes Galantes | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER| [15 line quote from Hugh Walpole] | -HUGH WALPOLE in [in italic] The Yale Review. | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY| [in italic] Publishers SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET : NEW YORK
Rear panel: THE KALKI EDITION OF THE WORKS OF | [in decorative script] James Branch Cabell | [decorated rule] | [list of 17 titles] | [in italic] Each, cloth, $2.50 net | [decorated rule] | Robert M. McBride & Company | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Front flap; Net $2.50 | [rule] | THE | [in decorative script] | | OF THE WORKS OF | [in decorative script] James Branch Cabell | [30 line advertisement for the Storisende Edition in 3 paragraphs] | [in italic] Apply to your bookseller for further information | concerning the Storisende Edition | [double rule] CHRONOLOGY | [device of three dots in an inverted triangle] | [numbered list of volumes 1-3 of the Storisende Edition, with a date of publication of September 15, 1927] | [in italic] (Continued on back flap of this jacket)
Rear flap: CHRONOLOGY | [in italic] (Continued from front flap) | [device of three dots in an inverted triangle] | [numbered list of volumes 4-6 of the Storisende Edition, with a date of publication of Spring, 1928] | [numbered list of volumes 7-9 of the Storisende Edition, with a date of publication of Autumn, 1928] | [numbered list of volumes 10-13 of the Storisende Edition, with a date of publication of Spring, 1929] |[numbered list of volumes 14-16 of the Storisende Edition, with a date of publication of Autumn, 1929] | [numbered list of volumes 17-19 of the Storisende Edition, with a date of publication of Spring, 1930]
Notes:
As listed on this dust jacket, the Storisende Edition was planned to include nineteen volumes. This was revised in production and The Witch Woman, shown here as Vol. 17, was never written. This title was planned to be a dizain. The much later (1948) book titled The Witch-Woman; A Trilogy about Her, Hall WW-A1, includes only three of the planned ten stories: The Music Behind the Moon, The Way of Ecben, and The White Robe, all of which had been previously published as stand-alone titles.
