James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-L1 (w) |
English Tandem Paperback Edition 1971 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: Jurgen | James Branch Cabell | Introduction by | James Blish | [Tandem device] TANDEM | 14 Gloucester Road, London SW7 (see image above).
Title page verso: First published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head Ltd. | Reprinted sixteen times | Copyright, 1919, 1921, 1928 by James Branch Cabell | Published by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd., 1971 | Made and printed in Great Britain by | Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd., Aylesbury, Bucks. (see image above).
Publication:
London: Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd., 1971
Collation:
Trade paperback [17.9 cm. (7-1/16 in.) x 11.3 cm. (4-7/16 in.)]. Pp. 288; (1) half-title; (2) Also by James Branch Cabell; (3) title page; (4) publication data; 5-6 Introduction by James Blish; (7) dedication; (8) three quotations attributed to Philip Borsdale, E. Noel Codman, and John Frederick Lewistam; 9-10 Contents; 11-12 A Foreword by James Branch Cabell (from the first printing); 13-283 text; (284)-(288) publisher's catalog.
Wraps:
White paper, black lettering, front panel decorated with a color painting by Mike Foreman (see image above).
Spine: [lettered down the spine] [Tandem device] Jurgen James Branch Cabell | 5549
Front panel: TANDEM [Tandem device] FANTASY | Jurgen | James Branch Cabell |One of the merriest, most erotic and notorious novels of | the century | [illustration: color painting by Mike Foreman]
Rear panel: [18-line blurb in two paragraphs] | [excerpt from a review by James Blish] | Illustration by Mike Foreman | U.K. 7/- 35p [Tandem device over TANDEM] SBN 4260 5549 7
Dedication:
[in italic] To | Burton Rascoe; followed by dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains (see image above).
The announcement at left, written by James Blish, was inserted in Kalki, Vol. IV No. 1, Whole No. 13, Winter 1969, as a letter-sized (8½ x 11-inch) folded broadside. It discusses the Society's efforts to get Mr. Cabell's works reprinted in Great Britain, and announces that Tandem Books will publish Jurgen, Figures of Earth, and The Silver Stallion "within the year". Tandem did in fact publish these three titles in 1971: Jurgen Jur-L (w), Figures of Earth FoE-G1 (w), and The Silver Stallion SS-G1 (w). The three titles appear to have been issued more-or-less simultaneously.