James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
FROM THE HIDDEN WAY: Dizain des Échoes
Hall Code |
Description |
FHW-B1 (K) |
First Printing, Revised Edition 1924 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: FROM THE | HIDDEN WAY | [in italic] Dizain des Échos | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [in italic] "Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady | Flora, the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia? | and where is Thais? . . . Where is Echo?" | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY |NEW YORK : : : : : : 1924 (see image above).
Title page verso: Revised Version, Copyright, | 1916, by JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] | Published, 1924 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 13.7 cm. (5⅜ in.)]; x + 212; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-x Contents; (1) fly-title (verso blank) 3-10 APOLOGIA AUCTORIS; (11) fly-title (verso blank); 13-34 text of poems; (35) fly-title (verso blank); 37-55 text of poems (verso blank); (57) fly-title (verso blank); 59-77 text of poems (verso blank); (79) fly-title (verso blank); 81-94 text of poems; (95) fly-title (verso blank); 97-111 text of poems (verso blank); (113) fly-title (verso blank); 115-127 text of poems (verso blank); (129) fly-title (verso blank); 131-150 text of poems; (151) fly-title (verso blank); 153-169 text of poems (verso blank); (171) fly-title (verso blank); 173-186 text of poems; (187) fly-title (verso blank); 189-212 text of poems.
Binding:
Kalki binding: brick red cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: FROM | THE | HIDDEN | WAY | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | BEVERLY BLAND MUNFORD | (31 May 1910) | dedicatory sonnet (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper with black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: [triple rule] FROM THE | HIDDEN | WAY | [rule] CABELL | McBRIDE | [triple rule]
Front panel: [triple rule] FROM THE | HIDDEN | WAY | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [15-line blurb, Kalki device in lower right] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | Publishers New York | [triple rule]
Rear panel: [double rule] STRAWS AND | PRAYER-BOOKS | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [19-line blurb in two paragraphs] | [in italic] At all bookstores 12 mo. Cloth, $2.50 net Postage Extra | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | PUBLISHERS 7 WEST 16th STREET NEW YORK | [double rule]
Front flap: [flush right] Price $2.50 | ARE YOU | INTERESTED IN | BOOK NEWS? | [9-line blurb for Book News] | [double rule] | [coupon]
Rear flap: :: The Books of :: | James Branch Cabell | [double rule] | [list of 15 titles published by McBride]
