James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
DOMNEI: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
[bound with]
THE MUSIC FROM BEHIND THE MOON: Another Comedy of Woman-Worship
Hall Code |
Description |
Dom-C2 (RS) |
Red Binding, Storisende Text 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: Domnei: The Music from | Behind the Moon | Two Comedies of Woman-Worship | [double rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [double rule] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1926, 1928 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1932
Collation:
Medium octavo [22.9 cm. (9 in.) x 15.2 cm. (6 in.)]; xiii + 292 pp.; (i) title page; (ii) publication data; (iii)-(xi) [vii]-[xv] Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); (xiii)-(xiv) [xvii]-[xviii] Contents, Domnei; (xv)-(xvi) [xix]-[xx] Contents, The Music from Behind the Moon; (xvii) half-title, Domnei (verso blank); (xix) dedication, Domnei (verso blank); (xxi) quotation (verso blank); (xxiii) fly-title, Critical Comment (verso blank); (xxv)-(xxvii) [xxix]-[xxxi] text of Critical Comment (verso blank); (xxix) The Argument (verso blank); (1) fly-title, PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-226 text of Domnei; (227) fly-title The Afterword (verso blank); 229-235 text of The Afterword (verso blank); (237) fly-title, Bibliography; (238) quotation; 239-242 Bibliography; (243) half-title, The Music from Behind the Moon (verso blank); (245) dedication, The Music from Behind the Moon (verso blank); 247 Editorial Note (verso blank); (249) fly-title, PART ONE (verso blank); 251-288 text of The Music from Behind the Moon; (289) fly-title, Bibliography; (290) quotation; 291 Bibliography (verso blank). Pages (xxiii), (1), (9), (15), (16), (27), (35), (41), (47), (55), (61), (69), (77), (83), (89), (95), (105), (113), (119), (129), (135), (143), (149), (157), (165), (175), (181), (189), (195), (201), (209), (217), (227), (237), (249), and (289) are fly-titles. Pages (xii), (xviii), (xx), (xxii), (xxiv), (xxviii), (xxx), (10), (14), (16), (26), (28), (36), (42), (46), (48), (56), (62), (68), (70), (76), (78), (82), (84), (88), (90), (96), (104), (106), (114), (118), (120), (128), (130), (134), (136), (142), (144), (150), (158), (164), (166), (176), (180), (182), (188), (190), (196), (200), (202), (208), (210), (216), (218), (228), (236), (244), (246), (248), (250), and (292) are blank.
Note: Beginning with page (iii), which is numbered as p. [vii], the preliminary pages are paginated incorrectly. This is because they were originally numbered for the Storisende Edition. In this collation, the correct pagination for the prelims is given in (parentheses), while the numeration as printed is given in [brackets].
Binding:
Red cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed, tops gilded. Spine: DOMNEI | THE MUSIC | FROM | BEHIND | THE MOON | [rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device, centered within decorative border originally drawn by Frank Papé for the American illustrated edition of Domnei, Dom-D1 (P) (see image above).
Dedications:
Domnei: [in italic] To | SARAH READ McADAMS | IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION (see image above).
The Music from Behind the Moon: [in italic] For | CARL VAN VECHTEN | Whatever [in italic] hereinafter | he may like (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Gold paper, with black lettering and decorations. Both the front and rear panels are enclosed in the same Papé border used for the front cover, with Papé illustrations within the borders on both front and rear. The drawing used for this jacket was originally used as the frontispiece of the ilustrated edition of Domnei, Hall Dom-D1 (P) (see image above).
Spine:[triple rule] | DOMNEI | [rule] | THE | MUSIC | FROM | BEHIND | THE | MOON | [triple rule] | [rule] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule] | [rule] | McBRIDE | [rule]
Front panel: [illustration enclosed in decorative border, both drawn by Frank Papé. See note above.]
Rear panel: [same as front panel]
Front flap: [flush right] Net $5.00 | [rule] THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [list of 18 Cabell titles published by McBride] | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers New York
Rear flap: [rule] | [advertisement for Travel Magazine | [rule] | [rule] | [coupon for Book News] | [rule]
Notes:
For a more detailed discussion of the "Red Storisendes", see our page on The "Red Storisende" Bindings.
