James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE HIGH PLACE: A Comedy of Disenchantment
Hall Code |
Description |
HP-C2 (E) |
Second English Printing 1923 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE HIGH PLACE | [in italic] A COMEDY OF DISENCHANTMENT | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "Build on High Place for Chemosh, the Abomination | of Moab, and for Horned Ashtoreth, the | Abomination of Zidon, and for Moloch, the | Abomination of the children of Ammon." | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).
Title page verso: FIRST PUBLISHED IN . . 1923 | REPRINTED . . . . 1923 | [rule] | [in italic] Made and Printed in Great Britain by | Miller Son & Compy., Fakenham and London. (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923
Collation:
Crown octavo [18.9 cm. (7 7/16 in.) x 13.3 cm. (5 ΒΌ in.)]; Pp. vi + 310 + 6 pp. advertisements not counted in in pagination; (i) half-title; (ii) BY THE SAME AUTHOR; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v)-(vi) Contents; 1 fly-title (verso blank); 3-309 text (verso blank); 6 pp. of advertisements. Pages 1, 93, and 213 are fly-titles. Pages (2), (94), (214), and (310) are blank.
Binding:
Orange cloth; black decorations and lettering on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed and stained black, else untrimmed. Spine: [triple decorated rule on black field] THE HIGH | PLACE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [triple decorated rule on black field]. Front cover: [all within triple decorated ruled boxes on black field] THE HIGH PLACE | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL (see image above).
Dedication:
Originally dedicated to Robert Gamble Cabell III, but the dedication was omitted in this edition.
Dust jacket:
Not seen.
Notes:
James Hall listed this printing on the basis of what he termed "reliable reports" of its existence. He also stated, though, that he had not seen a copy, and that Mr. Waldeman of The Bodley Head, Ltd., with whom he consulted on John Lane printings, told him "[t]here was no second English printing of THE HIGH PLACE." In another entry, though, Mr. Waldeman admits that The Bodley Head's records were far from complete. We are now able to confirm that Hall's unnamed sources were correct, and that there was in fact a second Lane printing of The High Place.
