James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice
Hall Code |
Description |
Jur-F1 (ML) |
First Modern Library Printing [Spring] 1934 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto type "G": [all enclosed in a double rule] JURGEN | A COMEDY OF JUSTICE | [rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | Bernhard Torchbearer device | [rule] | BENNETT A. CERF · DONALD S. KLOPFER | THE MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Copyright, 1919 by JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Introduction copyright, 1934 | [in italic] by THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [DOUBLE RULE] | [in italic] First Modern Library Edition | 1934 | [in italic] Bound for THE MODERN LIBRARY [in italic] by H. Wolff | [in italic] Manufactured in the United States of America (see image above).
Publication:
Stated first Modern Library edition, 1934. This printing can be dated to Spring 1934 by the catalog at rear, printed contiguously with the text, which includes God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell, but not Porgy, by Dubose Heyward (see images above).
Collation:
Sextodecimo [16.8 cm. (6 5/8-inches) x 10.8 cm. (4 1/4-inches)]. [i] half-title; [ii] advt; [iii] title; [iv] copyright; [v] dedication; [vi] quotes; v-xi Introduction; [xii] blank; [xiii-xiv] Contents; [xv] [rule] | A FOREWARD | [in italic] "Nescio quid certè est: et Hylax in limine latrat." | [rule]; [xvi] blank; [xvii-xxii] A Foreward; [xxiii] [rule | JURGEN | [in italic] ... amara lento temperet risu | [rule]; [xxiv] blank; 9-368 text; [369-374] catalog.
Binding:
Toledano/Kamins binding Style 7. Balloon cloth in brown, green, and blue. Also likely in red. Spine all in gilt: JURGEN| [Rule] | CABELL | ML device | MODERN | LIBRARY. Front in gilt: Kent Torchbearer device (slightly smaller than Style 5) (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | BURTON RASCOE | [in italic] [acrostic verse in three quatrains] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Kent design endpapers (in orange) as used on Modern Library titles 1929-1967 (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Style DJ-H pictorial jacket, neutral paper with red bands, with style e rear panel. The front panel image is by Frank C. Papé, and originally appeared in the 1921 UK illustrated edition of Jurgen published by John Lane, where it was captioned and these two sped westward in the glory of a departed sunset (see image above).
This jacket can be dated to Spring 1934 by the catalog on the inside (includes God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell, but not Porgy, by Dubose Heyward).
Dust Jacket Outside:
Spine: [wide red band] | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [narrow rede band] | [vertically down spine] JURGEN | Bernhard Torchbearer device | [narrow red band] | 15 | [wide red band].
Front Panel: [wide red band] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [narrow red band] | [pictorial image] [within image in red JURGEN] | [narrow red band] |THE MODERN LIBRARY | [wide red band].
Rear Panel: [wide red band] This Coupon Will Bring Your Choice | [in italic] of any of these | 225 MODERN LIBRARY TITLES | [narrow red band] | [enclosed within dashed lines] multi-line Order Form | [vertically up left side of form] CUT OUT ALONG DOTTED LINES | [narrow red line] | THE MODERN LIBRARY INC., NEW YORK | [in italic] In Canada THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. Toronto | [wide red band].
Front Flap: [wide red band] | MODERN LIBRARY BOOKS | 95 CENTS A COPY | SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN CANADA AND ABROAD| [narrow red band] | JURGEN | [in italic] By James Branch Cabell | 17 lines of advertising material | [device of four stars | 3 lines of advertising material | [in italic] (continued on last flap) | [narrow red band] | [in italic] Look inside jacket [arrow device] | [wide red band].
Rear Flap: [wide red band] | ON THE INSIDE OF THIS JACKET IS A LIST, | ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHORS, OF | ALL THE TITLES IN THE MODERN LIBRARY | IT IS WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION| [narrow red band] | [in italic] (continued from first flap) | 26 lines of advertising material |[narrow red band] |[arrow device] [in italic] Look inside jacket | [wide red band].
Dust Jacket Inside:
WHICH OF THESE 225 OUTSTANDING BOOKS DO YOU WANT TO READ? | [triple rule] | [vertically up the left side of the page The Convenient Coupon on The Other Side Brings You | Your Choice of These Books | [a vertical line] | 6 column listing of titles in The Modern Library; central 2 columns are bisected by a single rule, with listing of 14 Modern Library Giant titles below | [a vertical line] [vertically down the right side of the page] This is a Complete List of Modern Library Books (see image above).
Notes:
For an explanation of the terms used on this page that are specific to The Modern Library, see the Cabell in The Modern Library page.
