James Branch Cabell

Hall Code	Description
SPB-C1 (S)	Storisende Edition 1930

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1924, 1930 BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1930

Collation:

Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼ in.) x 15.9 cm (6¼ in.)]; xiv + 300 pp.; (i) blank; (ii) limitation; (iii) half-title; (iv) quotation; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; (vii) dedication (verso blank); ix-xxi Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); xxiii Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title THE AUTHOR OF JURGEN; (2) quotation; 3-19 text of THE AUTHOR OF JURGEN (verso blank); (21) fly-title Chapter I A NOTE ON ALCOVES; (22) quotation; 23-41 text of Chapter I (verso blank); (43) fly-title Chapter II THE WAY OF WIZARDRY; (44) quotation; 45-69 text of Chapter II (verso blank); (71) fly-title Chapter III MINIONS OF THE MOON; (72) quotation; 73-109 text of Chapter III (verso blank); (111) fly-title Chapter IV THE THIN QUEEN OF ELFHAME; (112) quotation; 113-125 text of Chapter IV (verso blank); (127) fly-title Chapter V CELESTIAL ARCHITECTURE; (128) quotation; 129-154 text of Chapter V; (155) fly-title Chapter VI ROMANTICS ABOUT THEM; (156) quotation; 157-174 text of Chapter VI; (175) fly-title Chapter VII DIVERSIONS OF THE ANCHORITE; (176) quotation; 177-202 text of Chapter VII; (203) fly-title Chapter VIII THE DELTA OF RADEGONDE; (204) quotation; 205-214 text of Chapter VIII; (215) fly-title Chapter IX A THEME WITH VARIATIONS; (216) quotation; 217-239 text of Chapter IX (verso blank); (241) fly-title Chapter X FLAWS IN THE SPUR; (242) quotation; 243-257 text of Chapter X (verso blank); (259) fly-title THE AUTHOR OF THE EAGLE'S SHADOW; (260) quotation; 261-277 text of THE AUTHOR OF THE EAGLE'S SHADOW (verso blank); (279) fly-title BOOKS BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL; (280) quotation; 281-297 list of books by Mr. Cabell, each with excerpts from reviews (verso blank); (299) colophon (verso blank). Pages (1), (21), (43), (71), (111), (127), (155), (175), (203), (215), (241), (259), and (279) are fly-titles. Pages (i), (viii), (xxii), (xxiv), (20), (42), (70), (110), (126), (240), (258), (278), (298), and (300) are blank.

Limitation:

OF THIS seventeenth volume of the Storisende | Edition of the works of JAMES BRANCH | CABELL fifteen hundred and ninety copies | have been printed, of which fifteen hundred | and fifty are for sale in the United States and | England | [in italic] This copy is number [handwritten in red] 1551 (see image above).

Dedication:

[in italic] To | BALLARD HARTWELL CABELL | IS DEDICATD WHATEVER MAY BE OF WORTH IN THIS | VOLUME, OR ELSEWHERE IN THE BIOGRAPHY (see image above).

Colophon:

This seventeenth volume of the Storisende Edition | of the works of JAMES BRANCH CABELL, containing | STRAWS AND PRAYER-BOOKS (first published in No- | vember, 1924), was designed by William Dana | Orcutt and printed and bound at The Plimpton Press, | Norwood, Massachusetts. It was completed in Febru- | ary, 1930, after which the type was destroyed. Issued | in March, 1930, by Robert M. McBride & Company, | New York. (see image above).

Dust jacket / Box:

Individual volumes of the Storisende Edition were not issued in dust jackets. Instead, each was wrapped in tissue and sealed. Early volumes in this set were sealed with adhesive paper dots. Later volumes were simply sealed with adhesive tape. Slipcases were provided for each group of three volumes issued together. The slipcases were sturdy cardboard covered in forest green paper, each with a paper label (see image of label above). For more information and photos, see the page for The Works of James Branch Cabell.

Notes:

This is Volume XVII of the Storisende Edition of the Works of James Branch Cabell.