James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
STRAWS AND PRAYER-BOOKS: Dizain des Diversions
Hall Code |
Description |
SPB-B1 (E) |
First English Printing 1926 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [in italic] STRAWS AND | PRAYER-BOOKS | Dizain des Diversions | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [in italic] "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, | Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. . . . | Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, | And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age." | [rule] LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] First Published in 1926 | Printed in Great Britain by R. Clay & Sons, Bungay, Suffolk (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926
Collation:
Duodecimo [19 cm. (7½ in.) x 13 cm. (5⅛ in.)]; Pp. viii + 302 + 10 pp. catalog; (i) half-title; (ii) BY THIS SAME AUTHOR; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) Contents (verso blank); (i) fly-title; (ii) quotation; 3-302 text; 10 page catalog, unnumbered. Pages (1), (23), (47), (77), (121), (137), (169), (191), (223), (237), (265), and(283) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (viii), (22), (46), (120), (168), (222), and (236) are blank.
Binding:
Purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine, front cover blind stamped; all edges trimmed. Spine: [two double rules] | STRAWS & | PRAYER | BOOKS | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [two double rules] | THE BODLEY HEAD | [two double rules]. Front cover: [all enclosed in a double ruled blind stamped box] (see image above).
Dedication:
To | BALLARD HARTWELL CABELL | [in italic] is dedicated whatever may be of worth in this | volume, or elsewhere in the Biography. (see image above)
Dust jacket:
Green paper, black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: STRAWS | AND | PRAYER | BOOKS | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | 7/6 | NET | The | Bodley | Head
Front panel: STRAWS AND | PRAYER BOOKS | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | Author of "Jurgen," etc. | [15-line blurb] | SEVEN SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE NET
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [in italic] BOOKS BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [list of seven titles published by John Lane] | [rule] JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. | VIGO STREET W.1
Front flap: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [in italic] BY THE SAME AUTHOR | [rule] | THE | SILVER | STALLION | [in italic] Third Edition. 7s. 6d. net. | [excerpts from four reviews] | [rule] | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.
Rear flap: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] CONVERSATIONS | WITH | ANATOLE FRANCE | By NICHOLAS SÉGUR. | [in italic] Translated and with an introduction by | J. LEWIS MAY. | [in italic] Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. | [12-line blurb followed by excerpts from three reviews] | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.
