James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE SILVER STALLION: A Comedy of Redemption
Hall Code |
Description |
SS-B1a (E) |
First English Printing, Variant Binding 1926 |
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, purple 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:
White paper, front panel in color, otherwise lettering and decorations in black (see image above).
Spine: THE | SILVER | STALLION | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | Author of | "JURGEN," etc. | 7/6 | NET | THE | BODLEY | HEAD
Front panel: [within colored illustration by Frank Papé, black ground] [white lettering with green edging] THE | S [sized to begin both lines 2 and 3] ILVER | TALLION | [color illustration of old Father Time holding a scythe and an hour glasss, riding an old white horse, signed "Frank C. Papé" in lower right corner] | [in green] JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in italic] BOOKS BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [advertisements for six of Cabell's books published by John Lane] | [rule] | JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., VIGO ST., W.1
Front flap: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [blurb for Payment Deferred, by C.S. Forester]
Rear flap:[all enclosed in a single ruled box] [blurb for Prairie, by Walter J. Muilenberg]
Notes:
This binding variant was added to Hall's bibliography as part of his "Last Minute Addenda," p. 244-245.
