Full Title:

Title page recto: [in italic] The Way of Ecben | A Commedietta Involving a Gentleman | By | James Branch Cabell | Decorations by Frank C. Papé | "I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, | and show thyself a man; and keep the charge of thy god, | to walk in his way and preserve his testimonies." | [device] | London | [in italic] John Lane The Bodley Head Limited | 1929

Note: The word "go" in the first line of the quotation is not italicized.

Title page verso: [in italic] First published in 1929 | Printed from electroplate by | Tonbridge Printers, Peach Hall Works, Tonbridge (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1929

Collation:

Crown octavo [19 cm. (7½ in.) x 13.3 cm. (5¼ in.)]; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Pp. viii+215; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS BY MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; (1) Synopsis (verso blank); (3) fly-title Words for the Intending Reader (verso blank); (5-6) text of Words for the Intending Reader; (7) fly-title Part I; (8) quotation; (9) fly title Chapter One (verso blank); 11-151 text of The Way of Ecben (verso blank); (153) half-title Colophon; (154) quotation; (155) Chapter One (verso blank); 157-209 text of Colophon (verso blank); (210) illustration (verso blank); (212)-(215) publisher's catalogue. Pages (vi), (2), (4), (10), (14), (16), (20), (22), (26), (28), (34), (36), (44), (48), (50), (56), (58), (62), (64), (74), (80), (84), (88), (96), (98), (104), (108), (112), (114), (118), (120), (126), (128), (132), (134), (140), (144), (148), (152), (156), (162), (168), (172), (174), (178), (182), (184), (188), (192), (194), (200), (206), and (210) are blank. Pages (8), (10), (15), (21), (27), (35), (41), (43), (49), (57), (63), (73), (79), (85), (87), (97), (105), (107), (113), (119), (127), (133), (139), (145), (147), (153), (155), (161), (167), (173), (177), (181), (187), (193), (199),and (205) are fly-titles. Pages (8), (42), (86), (106), (146), and (154) are short quotations occupying otherwise blank pages. Page (211) is an illustration.

Binding:

Black cloth, blue lettering on spine and front cover. Spine: [in italic] THE WAY OF ECBEN | [double rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL. Front cover: [in italic] THE WAY OF ECBEN | [double rule] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

Dedication:

[in italic] For | ROBERT M. MCBRIDE | this brief and somewhat tragic tale, to | commemorate our long and rather | comical association (see image above).