James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SOME OF US: An Essay in Epitaphs
Hall Code |
Description |
SoU-A1 |
First Printing 1930 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [decorated rule] | SOME OF US | [in italic] An Essay in Epitaphs | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ΚΡΕ. [in italic Greek] ώς ούχ ύπείξων ούδέ πιότεύόωυ λέγεις | OID. * * * * * | — [in italic] Soph. Oed. Tyr. 625 | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | MCMXXX [decorative rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY JAMES BRANCXH CABELL | PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1930 | [devicd] | [in italic] Printed in the United States of America | By the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1930.
Collation:
Quarto [24.3 cm. (9 9/16 in.) x 15.6 cm. (6⅛ in.)]; x + 136 pp.; (i) half-title; (ii) Books by Mr. Cabell; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) limitation page (verso blank); (vii) dedication (verso blank); (ix) Contents (verso blank); (1)-131 text; (132) blank; (133) flt-title (verso blank); (135) Bibliography (verso blank). Pages (1), (13), (27), (41), (45), (59), (75), (89), (105), and (119) are fly-titles. Pages (40), (44), are (74) blank.
Binding:
Quarter bound, white linen spine over blue paper boards; all untrimmed. White paper labels on spine and front cover, lettering and decoration in blue. Spine label: [rule] SOME | OF US | [dashed rule] | [in italic] An Essay in Epitaphs | [dashed rule] | CABELL | [rule]. Front cover label: [rules on all sides] [in italic] SOME OF US | An Essay in Epitaphs [rule] james branch cabell (see image above).
Limitation:
THIS VOLUME OF SOME OF US IS PRINTED FROM | TYPE IN AN EDITION OF TWELVE HUNDRED | AND NINETY-FIVE COPIES, OF WHICH TWELVE | HUNDRED AND FIFTY ARE FOR SALE. THE TYPE HAS BEEN DESTROYED | THIS IS COPY [handwritten in red] 1181 | [signed in black] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | VIRGINIA SHEPHERD DAVIS | [in italic] who seems not altogether a stepchild (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked tissue dust jacket (not shown) and a cardboard slipcase covered in blue paper. Paper label on the front panel [rules on all sides] [in italic] SOME OF US | An Essay in Epitaphs [rule] james branch cabell (see image above).
Notes:
The Greek quotation on the title page is from by Sophocles: The Oedipus Tyrannus: Edited for the Syndics of the University Press by R.C. Jebb, Cambridge: at the University Press, 1885, page 72. In this passage, Creon (KPE) is responding to Oedipus's (OID) claim that he has betrayed the king. A loose modern translation of the quoted line would be "as long as you say so," uttered in response to the king's charges.
