Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a single ruled box with rounded corners] Jurgen | A Comedy of Justice | James Branch Cabell | With an afterword by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. | [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." | An Avon Library Book | [Avon device] (see image above).

Title page verso: AVON BOOKS | A division of | The Hearst Corporation | 950 Eighth Avenue, | New York, N. Y. 10019 | Copyright, 1919, 1921, 1928 by James Branch Cabell. | Published by arrangement with Mrs. James Branch Cabell | All rights reserved. | Printed in Canada (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Avon Books, n.d. [1965?]

Collation:

Trade paperback [17.9 cm. (7 1/16 in.) x 10.8 cm. (4¼ in.)]. Pp. 288; (1) biography of Mr. Cabell (verso blank); (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication; (5) three quotations attributed to Philip Borsdale, E. Noel Codman, and John Frederick Lewistam; (7)-(8) Contents; (9)-(10) A Foreword (from the 1919 first edition); (11) half-title (verso blank); 13-276 text; 277-287 Afterword by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; (288) publisher's advertisement.

Wraps:

White paper, lettering in red, black, and white; illustration by Rowland Wilson in color across bottom of all three panels (see image above).

Spine: [in red] [Avon device] [lettered down the spine] JURGEN [in black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in white] AVON | VS7 | 75¢

Front panel: [in black] AVON LIBRARY / VS7 / 75¢ [flush right, in red] [Avon device] | [in black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in red] One of the merriest, most erotic and | notorious novels of the century | JURGEN

Rear panel: [in red] From THE AVON LIBRARY [flush right] [Avon device] | [in black, 19-line blurb in two paragraphs] [in red two line quote from H. L Mencken] | [in white at bottom, flush left] Printed in U.S.A.

Dedication:

[in italic] To | BURTON RASCOE | [followed by dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains] (see image above).

Notes:

This is a Canadian printing not mentioned in Hall. We have assigned it a tentative date of 1965 based on the titles listed on p. 288, which are the same as those listed in the first Avon printing, Jur-J1. We have also considered the possibility that the second printing Hall does mention is actually this Canadian printing, since the third Avon printing, Jur-J3, does not mention a second printing, but does list this one. The Silver Stallion has never seen an Avon copy marked "second printing," but since Hall does specifically mention that text in his description, we have listed both issues.