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 | Reprinted 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:

Green cloth, dark green lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed. Spine: [two double rules] | STRAWS & | PRAYER | BOOKS | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [two double rules] | THE BODLEY HEAD | [two double rules] (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)