Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a decorative border by Frank Papé] THE SILVER STALLION | [in italic] A Comedy of Redemption | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | [illustration of a mounted knight] | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD | LIMITED (see image above).

Title page verso: FIRST PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1928 | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928

Collation:

Small royal octavo [24.1 cm. (9½ in.) x 16.8 cm. (6⅝ in.)]; xxvi + 360 pp.; (i) blank; (ii) quotation; (iii) half-title; (iv) Books by Mr. Cabell; (leaf not counted in pagination) recto blank, verso frontispiece; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; (vii) dedication (verso blank); (ix) quotation (verso blank); xi-xii The Lords that Poictesme had in Dom Manuel's Time; (xiii)-xx A Note Upon Poictesme; xxi-xxiii Contents (verso blank); xxv Illustrations; (xxvi) quotation; (1) fly-title BOOK ONE; (2) quotation; 3-356 text; 357-359 Compendium of Events (verso blank). Pages (1), (25), (59), (95), (133), (171), (207), (247), (283), and (317) are fly-titles. Pages (26), (60), (96), (132), (134), (170), (172), (208), (248), and (284) are blank. Tipped in ilustrations face pages (v), 4, 56, 64, 104, 164, 198, 214, 278, 290, and 322. All tipped-in illustrations including the frontispiece are protected by unmarked tissue guards.

Binding:

Black cloth; gilt lettering on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | SILVER | STALLION | BY [device] JAMES | BRANCH [device] | CABELL. | ILLVSTRATED BY | FRANK. C. PAPÉ | [decoration] | THE | BODLEY HEAD. Front cover: THE SILVER STALLION | BY · JAMES BRANCH CABELL [device] | ILLVSTRATED BY FRANK. C. PAPÉ | [decoration] (see image above).

Frontispiece:

The Lords that Poictesme had in Dom Manuel's Time [drawing by Frank Papé] (see image above).

Dedication:

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

Endpapers:

Two panel spread of the Map of Poictesme, by Frank Papé. This map, in its original monochrome form, was first used in 1926, as the endpapers for the signed, limited issued of the first printing of The Silver Stallion, Hall SS-A1a. Later that same year it was issued as a multi-colored broadside, Hall G2. The map used in this edition is printed in two colors, red and black, and is a later version, in which several errors noted in the first printing have been corrected. See our page on Papé's Map of Poictesme for a more detailed discussion (see image above).

Notes:

Issued from imported sheets.