James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
LET ME LIE: Being in the Main an Ethnological
Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of
Virginia and the Making of its History
Hall Code |
Description |
LML-A1a |
First Printing, Virginia Edition 1947 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in decorative type] LET ME LIE| [in italic] Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of | the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia | and the Making of its History | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | [in italic] "Just take me back and let me lie . . . | in old Virginia." | VIRGINIA EDITION | 1947 | [in italic] Farrar, Straus and Company • New York (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright 1947 | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] All rights reserved, including the rights to repro- |duce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. | [Farrar, Straus device] | MANUFACTURED IN THE U. S. A. | BY H. WOLFF, NEW YORK | DESIGNED BY STEFAN SALTER (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947
Collation:
Crown octavo (21 cm. (8¼ in.) x 14.1 cm. (5 9/16 in.)]; xvi + 286 pp. + 1 blank leaf. (1) half-title; (ii) Books by James Branch Cabell; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) Table of Contents (verso blank); (ix) fly-title (verso blank); x1-xiv Prologue; xv-xvi Acknowledgements; (1) fly-title; (2) quotation; 3-286 text; 1 blank leaf. Pages (ix), (1), (23), (43), (77), (95), (115), (141), (161), (179), (201), (229), and (269) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Green cloth, yellow lettering and decorations on spine and front cover, all edges trimmed. Spine: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [Kalki device] | LET | ME | LIE | FARRAR | STRAUS. Front cover: [Kalki device] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To the treasured memory of | ELLEN GLASGOW | ―not merely as having been without any peer | among them who have adorned and commemorated | the State of Virginia. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper. Ground of spine and front panel is a drawing by "Morgan." Lettering on spine is in green and black, and on front panel in white, yellow, and black. Letterng on the remaining panels is in black (see image above).
Spine: [green decorative italic] James | Branch | Cabell | [in black] LET | ME | LIE | [green decorative italic] Farrar | Straus
Front panel: [white decorative italic] James Branch Cabell | [in yellow] LET | ME | LIE | [black decorative italic] His commentaries upon | the Commonwealth of Virginia
Rear panel: [triple rule] | [28-line quote from Ben Ray Redman in The Saturday Review of Literature] | [triple rule]
Front flap: [flush right} $3.75 | [triple rule] | LET ME LIE | by James Branch Cabell | [in italic] Being in the Main | an Ethnological Account | of the Remarkable Commonwealth | of Virginia | and the Making of its History | [24-line blurb in three poaragraphs] | [triple rule]
Rear flap: [triple rule] | [in italic] Mr. Cabell's most recent novel is | THERE WERE TWO PIRATES | [in italic] A Comedy of Division | [illustration] | [9-line blurb] | [Farrar, Straus device] | [triple rule] | FARRAR, STRAUS AND CO. | 530 Fifth Avenue New York 19, N. Y.
