James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
DOMNEI: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
Hall Code |
Description |
Dom-A5 (K) |
Fifth Printing 1927 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: DOMNEI | [in italic] A Comedy of Woman-Worship | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH INTRODUCTION BY | JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | in italic] "En cor gentil domnei per mort no passa" | [McBeide Liberty Bell device] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1927 (see image above).
Title page verso:REVISED EDITION, COPYRIGHT, 1920, | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1920 | [in italic] Fifth Printing, June, 1927 | DOMNEI | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., June, 1927
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 13.3 cm. (5¼ in.)]; Pp. x + 218; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) quotation (verso blank); (ix)-(x) (marked as vii-viii, see note below) Contents; (1) fly-title: A PREFACE (verso blank); 3-9 text of Preface (verso blank); (11) fly-title: CRITICAL COMMENT (verso blank); (13)-(14) quotes attributed to E. Noel Codman and Paul Verville; (15) poem "THE ARGUMENT" attributed to Sir William Allonby (verso blank); (17) fly-title: PART ONE PERION [8-line verse]; (18) [8-line attribution of the text to The Romance of Lusignan by Nicolas de Caen ; 19-201 text (verso blank); (203) fly-title: THE AFTERWORD (verso blank); 205-212 text of The Afterword; (213) fly-title BIBLIOGRAPHY; (214) 10-line quotation in French attributed to Jehan Bouclet;215-218 text of The Bibliography.
Pages (2), (10), (12), (16), (81), (139), (203), and (213) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (viii), (2), (10), (12), (18), (52), (82), (138), (140), (202), (204), and (214) are blank.
Note: Following the first Kalki printing, Dom-A1 (K), the preliminary pages were slightly rearranged: the quotation following the dedication was moved to page (vii), leaving the verso of the dedication page as blank. The verso of the quotation page was also left blank. This relocated the Contents to pages ix-x, although they were still marked as vii-viii.1
Binding:
Kalki binding: red-brick cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover, top edge trimmed, else untrimmd. Spine: DOMNEI | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | SARAH READ McADAMS | IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Dust Jacket Spine: DOMNEI | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in italic] Fifth Printing | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | McBRIDE
Front panel: DOMNEI | [in italic] A Comedy of Women-Worship | [in italic] By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | [24-line excerpt from a 1914 review in The Atlantic Monthly] | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers : |SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET : NEW YORK
Rear panel: THE KALKI EDITION OF THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [decoragted rule] | [list of seventeen titles in the Kalki edition] | [in italic] Each, cloth, $2.50 net | [decorated rule] | [in italic] Robert M. McBride & Company | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Front flap: [flush right] Net $2.50 | [rule] | THE | [in italic] Storisende Edition | OF THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [35-line blurb in two paragraphs for The Storisende Edition | [double rule] | CHRONOLOGY | [device of four stars in an inverted chevron] | [numbered list of the first three titles in The Storisende Edition | [in italic, flush right] (Continued on the back flap of this jacket)
Rear flap: CHRONOLOGY | [in italic] (Continued from the front flap) | [numbered list of titles four through nineteen in The Storisende Edition, each group of theee separated by a device of three dots in an inverted chevron | [double rule] | [in italic] Apply to your bookseller for furthr information | concerning the Storisende Edition.
