James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
DOMNEI: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
DIE SCHÖNSTE ALLER FRAUEN: Domnei |
Die Musik von
jenseits des Mondes |
Zwei Komödien der Liebe
Hall Code |
Description |
*Dom-Ger-1 (w) |
First Printing 1986 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto (volume): JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [decorated rule] | [all enclosed in a single ruled box] DIE SCHÖNSTE | ALLER FRAUEN | [decorated rule] | DOMNEI | DIE MUSIC VON JENSEITS | DES MONDES | Zwei Komödien der Liebe | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] (see image above).
Title page verso: [rule] | BASTE-LÜBBE-TASCHENBUCH | Fantasy | Band 20 087 | © Copyright 1920, 1926, 1928 by James Branch Cabell | All rights reserved | Deutsche Lizenzausgabe 1986 | Bastei-Verlag Gustav H. Lübbe GmbH & Co., Bergish Gladbach | Originaltitel: Domnei/The Music From Behind the Moon | Ins Deutsche übertragen und mit einem Nachwort | versehen von Dr. Helmut Pesch | Titelillustration: Sanjulian | Umschlaggenestaltung: Quadro-Grafik, Bensberg | Druck und Verarbeitung: | Elsnerdruck, Berlin | Printed in Western Germany | ISBN 3-404-20087-X | Der Preis dieses Bandes versteht sich einschlieffeßich | der gesetzlichen Mehrwertsteuer. (see image above).
Title page recto (Die Schönste Aller Frauen): [illustration by "Sanjulian"] Die Schönste | Aller Frauen (see image above).
Title page recto (Domnei): [illustration by "Sanjulian"] Domnei (see image above).
Title page recto (Die Musik von jenseits des Mondes): [illustration by "Sanjulian"] Die Musik von | jenseits des Mondes (see image above).
Publication:
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany: Bastei-Lübbe, 1986
Collation:
Trade paperback in wraps [18.1 cm. (7⅛ in.) x 11.4 cm. (4½ in.)]. Pp. 224; (1) free endpaper, Bastei-Lübbe castle logo at bottom; (2) frontispiece; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) title page: Die Schönste Aller Frauen (verso blank); (7)-(9) Inhalt; (10)-(11) Map of Poictesme; 12-14 Vorwort by Mr. Cabell (translated into German); (15) title page: Domnei; (16) quotation; 17-18 Kritischer Kommentar attributed to E. Noel Codman (translated into German); (19) quotation (verso blank); (20) poem attributed to Sir William Allonby (translated into German); (21) quotation; (23) illustration; (24) verse; 25-150 text of Domnei; 151 L'Envoi; 152-157 Nachvort; 158 quotation; 159-161 Bibliographie (verso blank); (163) title page: Die Musik von jenseits des Mondes; (164) quotation; 165-166 Textkritische Anmerkunge; (167) fly-title: Erste Teil; (168) quotation; 169-176 text; (177) fly-title: Zweiter Teil; (178) quotation; 179-186 text; (187) fly-title: Dritter Teil; (188) quotation; 189-196 text; (197) fly-title: Vierter Teil; (198) quotation; 199-206 text; 207-208 Bibliographie; 209-223 Nachvort by Dr. Helmut Pesch; (224) advertisement.
Wraps:
Front panel white lettering over illustration by "Sanjulian". Spine and rear panel blue or white lettering over blue background (see image above).
Spine: 20 087 | [rule] | 780 | [lettered up the spine] [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] James Branch Cabell Die Schönste Aller Frauen FANTASY
Front panel: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [white decorated rule] | [in white, all enclosed in a single red-ruled box over blue ground] DIE SCHÖNSTE | ALLER FRAUEN | [white decorated rule] | Die Chroniken von Poictesme | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo]
Rear panel: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [8-line biography of Mr. Cabell] | [in white, all enclosed in a single red-ruled box over blue ground] DIE SCHÖNSTE | ALLER FRAUEN | [7-line blurb] | [quotes from two reviews] | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] Deutsche | Erstveröffentlichung Fantasy | [black lettering, all enclosed in a black, single ruled box, white ground] [prices, ISBN data, bar codes]
Frontispiece:
Above frontispiece: Bischer sind im BASTE-LÜBBE Taschenbuchprogramm von | JAMES BRANCH CABELL nachstehende Bände erschienen: | 20 075 Die Legende von Manuel | 20 081 Der silberne Hengst
Frontispiece: Dom Manuel's Coat of Arms
Subscript: [in italic] >>En cor gentil domnei per mort no passa.<< (see image above).
Map of Poictesme:
The map shown here was reprinted in several of Bastei-Lübbe's German translations of works in The Biography of Manuel. It is based on Peter Koch's 1928 Map of Poictesme, Hall G8, and was revised and transliterated into German by Dr. Helmut Pesch. It is signed on the lower left Inv. Peter Koch 28, and on the lower right delin. H. Pesch 85.
Dedication:
Domnei was dedicated to Sarah Read McAdams. The Music from Behind the Moon was dedicated to Carl Van Vechten. Neither dedication is present in this edition.
