James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE MUSIC FROM BEHIND THE MOON:
An Epitome with Eight Wood Engravings by Leon Underwood
Hall Code |
Description |
MBM-A1 |
First Printing 1926 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [in italic] THE MUSIC | FROM BEHIND THE MOON | An Epitome | by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] With Eight Wood Engravings by | LEON UNDERWOOD | Judge thou the lips of those that rose up | against me, and their devices against | me all the day. Behold their sit- | ting down, and their rising | up: I am their music | [row of three devices | New York | THE JOHN DAY COMPANY | 1926 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1926 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: The John Day Company, September, 1926.
Collation:
Folio [28 cm. (11 in.) x 19.4 cm. (7⅝ in.)]; viii + 56pp.; (i) blank; (ii) frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication; (vi) note on the text; (vii) Contents (verso blank; (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2)quotation; 3-54 text; (55) blank; (56) colophon. Pages (1), (13), (27), and (41) are fly-titles. Pages (ii), (11), (17), (24), (31), (35), (45), and (52) are illustrations. Pages (viii), (12), (18), (23), (32), (36), (40), (46), (51), and (55) are blank.
Binding:
Black paper boards, white paper label on spine. All edges trimmed. Spine: [lettered down in black italic] The Music from Behind the Moon [device] James Branch Cabell (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Wood engraving by Leon Underwood: "I am their music." (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | CARL VAN VECHTEN | [in italic] whatever hereinafter | he may like (see image above).
Colophon:
THIS, THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE | JOHN DAY COMPANY, INCORPORATED, | IS ISSUED IN AN EDITION LIMITED TO | THREE THOUSAND COPIES, PRINTED BY | WILLIAM EDWIN RUDGE ON VIDALON | VÉLIN PAPER, FROM HANDSET GARAMOND | TYPE, AND THE TYPE DISTRIBUTED | TYPOGRAPHY BY BYRON J. MUSSER (see image above).
Insert:
Illustrated single page insert, 21.3 cm. (8⅜ in.) x 11 cm. (5 7/16 in.), printed on verso only: [illustration of Pan, piping. Presumably by Underwood, but unsigned and not used in the book] | 8-line advertisement for an edition of numbered and signed sets of the engravings for this book, limited to 25 copies (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked tissue dust jacket and an unmarked cardboard slipcase covered in black paper (see image above).
