James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

THE SILVER STALLION: A Comedy of Redemption

Hall Code
Description
SS-B1 (E)
First English Printing 1926

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: THE SILVER STALLION | [in italic] By | James Branch Cabell | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).

Title page verso: FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1926 | [in italic] Made and Printed in Great Britain by | Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane, 1926.

Collation:

Crown octavo [19 cm. (7½ in.) x 19.8 cm. (6¼ in.)]; pp. xvi+318; (i) half-title; (ii) [all enclosed in a single ruled box, in italic] BY THE SAME AUTHOR; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; p. v dedication (verso blank); vii Note as to the text of The Silver Stallion; viii-ix THE LORDS THAT POICTESME HAD IN DOM MANUEL'S TIME (verso blank); xi-xiv Contents; xv Introductory Note (verso blank); text pp. 1-308; pp. 309-312 Compendium of Leading Historical Events; (313)-(318) advertisements; pp. 1, (21), (51), (83), (113), (145), (175), (211), (243), and (275) are fly-titles; pp. (22), (52), (82), (84), (114), (144), (146), (176), (212), (244), and (274) are blank.

Binding:

Grey cloth, black lettering on front cover and spine; all edges trimmed, tops stained purple. Spine: [diced rule] | THE | SILVER | STALLION | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [three stacked diced rules] | THE | BODLEY HEAD | [diced rule]. Front cover: [three vertical diced rules to the left] | center: THE | SILVER | STALLION | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [two vertical diced rules to the right] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | CARL VAN DOREN | [12 line acrostic verse in three stanzas. Last stanza in italic] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen, but we suspect it was the same jacket used for the variant binding, SS-B1a (E).