James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-A21 (GD) |
Reprint Edition 1931 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a grey floral border] JURGEN | [in italic] A Comedy of Justice | [device] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [device] | [in italic] "Of JURGEN eke they maken mencioun, | That of an old wyf gat his youthe agoon, | And gat himselfe a shirte as bright as fyre | Wherein to jape, yet gat not his desire | In any countrie ne condicioun." | [device] | GROSSET & DUNLAP | PUBLISHERS | [in italic] by arrangement with Robert M. McBride & Company (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright, 1919 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL| [in italic] Published, September, 1919 | Twentieth Printing, September, 1927 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.3 cm. (8 in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)]; 2 blank leaves not counted in pagination + (viii) + 368: Pp. 1 blank leaf (not counted in pagination); (i) half-title; (ii) Books by Mr. Cabell; (iii) title-page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication; (vi) three quotations attributed to Philip Borsdale, E. Noel Codman, and John Frederick Lewistam; (vii-viii) Contents; (ix) Fly-title (verso blank); (1)-(6) text of A Foreward; (7) fly-title (verso blank); text pp. 9-368; followed by 1 blank leaf (not counted in pagination).
Binding:
Green cloth; black, silver, and blind lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained green, else untrimmed. Spine: [enclosed in a silver box on a black field, text in silver, figure in silver and green below] JURGEN | [in black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL |GROSSET | & DUNLAP. Front cover: [enclosed in a silver box on a black field, text in silver, figure in silver and green below] JURGEN | [in black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [G&D logo blind stamped in lower right corner] (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | BURTON RASCOE; followed by dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper; silver, black, white and green lettering and decorations. Art-deco cover art by Alfred Skrenda covers the entire spine and front panel, lettering overprinted (see image above).
Spine: [rule] | [in green] JURGEN | [rule] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [G&D logo in black on green field] | [in white] GROSSET | & DUNLAP
Front panel: [rule] | [in green] JURGEN | [rule] | [in green] A COMEDY OF JUSTICE | [in black, center right] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [centered at bottom of panel, in silver italic] The fable of Jurgen is, as the world | itself, a book wherein each man will | find what his nature enables him to see
Rear panel: [enclosed in triple decorated ruled box, on a green field] [left] photo of Mr. Cabell, subscript JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [right, in italic, 13-line biography of Mr. Cabell] | JURGEN | [in italic] by James Branch Cabell | [15-line blurb in two paragraphs] | [triple decorated rule] | [on green field] GROSSET & DUNLAP [in italic] Publishers NEW YORK | [triple decorated rule]
Front flap: [all enclosed in triple decorated ruled box, on a green field] [in italic] A Complete List of the | Novels of Distinction | [list of 55 titles] | [in italic] (continued on back inside flap) | [double rule] | GROSSET & DUNLAP :: NEW YORK
Rear flap: [all enclosed in triple decorated ruled box, on a green field] Novels of Distinction | [in italic] (continued from front inside flap) | [list of 53 titles, including 15 BOOKS OF GENERAL INTEREST following the Novels of Distinction] | [double rule] GROSSET & DUNLAP :: NEW YORK
Notes:
The text is printed from plates of the 20th Kalki printing, Jur-A20 (K) with a new title leaf.
