James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
JÜRGEN: Eine Gerechtigkeitskomödie
Hall Code |
Description |
*Jur-Ger-2 (w) |
German Translation, Paperback 1981 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | Jürgen | Eine Gerechtigkeitskomödie | [in italic] Ein klassischer Fantasy-Roman | mit einem Nachwort herausgegeben | von | Jürgen Blasius | [Heyne device] WILHEM HEYNE VERLAG | MÜNCHEN (see image above).
Title page verso: HEYNE-BUCH Nr. 3801 | im Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, München | Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe | JURGEN | Deutsche Übersetzung von Walter Brum | Das Umschlagbild schuf Karel Thole | Die Stiche von Frank C. Papé sind der Ausgabe | bei John Lane / The Bodley Head, London 1921, entnommen | Redaktion: Wolfgang Jeschke | Copyright © 1919 by Robert M. McBride & Co; | eneuertes Copyright © 1946 by James Branch Cabell | Copyright © 1981 der deutschen Übersetzung | by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, München | Gesamtherstellung: Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH, Gütersloh | ISBN 3-435-30703-8 (see image above).
Publication:
München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1981
Collation:
Trade paperback [17.9 cm. (7 1/16 in.) x 11.6 cm. (4 9/16 in.)]. Pp. 368; (1) Heyne Bücher SCIENCE FICTION logo (verso blank); (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication; (6) three quotations attributed to Philip Borsdale, E. Noel Codman, and John Frederick Lewistam; (7)-(8) INHALT; (9) verse; (10) frontispiece; 11-353 text; 354-366 Nachwort; (367) Beschriftungen der ganzseitigen Bildtafeln (List of Illustrations); (368) publisher's advertisement.
Wraps:
Green paper, black background on spine; lettering in white and black, color illustration by Karel Thole on front panel (see image above).
Spine: [all white lettering] 3801 | FANTASY | CLASSICS | [lettered up the spine] James Branch Cabell JÜRGEN | [ base of spine] 680 | [Heyne logo device]
Front panel: [in white] FANTASY [Heyne logo device] CLASSICS | [in black] JÜRGEN | [enclosed in red border outlined in white, illustration by Karel Thole] | James Branch Cabell
Rear panel: [all enclosed in red border outlined in white] [in white] FANTASY CLASSICS | [in black, 13-line blurb] | [in italic, 8-line biography of Mr. Cabell] | [in italic] Mit den illustrationen der englishen Erstgaube von Frank | C. Papé; hereausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen | von Jürgen Blasius. | [below box, in white italic] EIN HEYNE-BUCH | DM 6.80
Dedication:
Für Burton Rascoe | [12-line dedicatory poem in three quatrains] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Black and white reproduction of the frontispiece from the 1921 first illustrated edition, Jur-B1 (P). Originally in color: a painting titled "Dorothy la Désirée," by Frank C. Papé (see image above).
Notes:
This was a new translation by Walter Brum, not a reprinting of the 1928 translation by Karl Lerbs, Jur-Ger-1. This edition includes many of the illustrations and decorations drawn by Frank C. Papé for the 1921 first illustrated edition, Jur-B1 (P).
