James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-G1 (w) |
First Paperback Edition (Penguin Press) 1940 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Ttle page recto: JURGEN | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [penguin device] | PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED | HARMONDSWORTH MIDDLESEX ENGLAND (see image above).
Title page verso: First published 1921 | Published in Penguin Books 1940 | MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED, | BY RICHARD CLAY AND COMPANY, LTD., BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. (see image above).
Publication:
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books Ltd., June 1940
Collation:
Trade paperback [17.8 cm. (7 in.) x 11.1 cm. (4⅜ in.)]. Pp. 248 + 8 pp. of advertisements; (i) half-title; (ii) Publisher's Note; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v0 dedication (verso blank); (vi) three quotations (attributed to Philip Borsdale, E. Noel Codman, and John Frederick Lewistam, verso blank); (vii)ix-viii) Contents; ix-x Introduction by Hugh Walpole; xi-xii Contents; xiii-xiv A Foreword; 15-247 text (verso blank); 8 pp. of advertisements.
Wraps:
Red paper, white band on front panel, lettering in black and red (see image above).
Spine: [lettered up the spine in black] JURGEN JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [at base of spine] [penguin device] | 268
Front panel: [centered in top red panel, lettered in black, inside single line cloud black border on white ground] PENGUIN | BOOKS | [in black, centered in center white panel] JURGEN | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [framing center white panel on both sides, lettered in red, lettered up at left and down at right] FICTION FICTION | [in bottom red panel, in black] COMPLETE [penguin device] UNABRIDGED
Rear panel: [in black, all enclosed in a single ruled shadowboxed black box] LATEST | PENGUINS | Already Published | [list of 20 titles]
Dedication:
To | BURTON RASCOE | [dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Red paper, white band on front panel, flaps on white ground, lettering in black and red (see image above).
Spine: [lettered up the spine in black] JURGEN JAMES BRNCH CABELL | [at base of spine] [penguin device] | 268
Front panel: [centered in top red panel, lettered in black, inside single line cloud black border on white ground] PENGUIN | BOOKS | [in black, centered in center white panel] JURGEN | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [framing center white panel on both sides, lettered in red, lettered up at left and down at right] FICTION FICTION | [in bottom red panel, in black] COMPLETE [penguin device] UNABRIDGED
Rear panel: [in black, all enclosed in a single ruled shadowboxed black box] LATEST | PENGUINS | Already Published | [list of 20 titles]
Front flap: JURGEN | [16-line quotation from Introduction] | [in italic] Hugh Walpole | PENGUIN BOOKS | [advertisement in 12-lines] | [flush lower right corner] 6D
Rear flap: [photo of Mr. Cabell] | James Branch | Cabell | [22-line biography] | [rule] [at left, in black on red ground] James | Branch | Cabell | [star device] | [in italic] Jurgen | [at right] Reading-case Label | [7-line advertisement for shelf case from Penguin]
Notes:
This was the first printing of Jurgen in wraps (other than the six McBride advance copies from 1919).
