James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SMIRT: An Urbane Nightmare
Hall Code |
Description |
SMT-A1 |
First Printing 1934 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: SMIRT | An Urbane Nightmare | BY BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "He accepts that middle world in which men | take no side in great conflicts, and decide no | great causes, and make great refusals. He thus | sets for himself the limits within which art, | undisturbed by any moral ambition, does its | most sincere and surest work." | NEW YORK : MCMXXXIV | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: SMIRT | COPYRIGHT, 1934 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES | OF AMERICA | FIRST EDITION, MARCH, 1934 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1934
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.5 cm. (8 1/16 in.) x 14.6 cm. (5¾ in.)]; xxii + 310 + 2 blank leaves. (i) half-title; (ii) by Branch Cabell (list of books); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-xvii Author's Note (verso blank); xix-xxi Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title, PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-309 (verso blank); 2 blank leaves. Pages (1), (45), (95), (123), (155), (201), (237), and (271) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Black cloth, silver lettering and decorations on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: * | SMIRT | * * | BRANCH | CABELL | * | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right] (see image above).
Dedication:
For | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN | [16-line acrostic verse in four stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, white, black and silver lettering on front panel and spine, else black. Ground of spine and front panel printed over a painting by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (see image above).
Spine: [in silver] SMIRT | ● | CABELL | ● ● | [in black] McBRIDE
Front panel: [in white & silver] SMIRT | [in black] BRANCH CABELL
Rear panel: NEW McBRIDE PUBLICATIONS | [zigzag rule] | [blurbs for three titles published by McBride]
Front flap: [flush right] Net $2.50 | [rule] | SMIRT | An Urbane Nightmare | By BRANCH CABELL | 23-line blurb in two paragraphs | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 4 West Sixteenth Street New York, N. Y.
Rear flap: Biography of the Life | of Manuel | By James Branch Cabell | [rule] | [list of the eighteen titles of the Storisende Edition]
