Books About James Branch Cabell
NOTES ON FIGURES OF EARTH,
by John Philips Cranwell and James P. Cover
Hall Code |
Description |
E11 |
First Printing 1929 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [rule] | [in decorative script] Notes on | Figures of Earth | [rule] | BY | JOHN PHILIPS CRANWELL | AND | JAMES P. COVER | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1929 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1929 | BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Published, September, 1929 | NOTES ON FIGURES OF EARTH | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [rule] | BY THE PLIMPTON PRESS • NORWOOD • MASS. (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company; 1929
Collation:
Royal octavo [24.6 cm. (9 11/16-in.) x 16.6 cm. (6½-in.)]; xiv + 140; (i) half-title; (ii) limitation page; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-ix FOREWORD (verso blank); xi IN EXPLANATION (verso blank); (1) fly-title NOTES ON FIGURES OF EARTH (verso blank); 3-105 text of NOTES (verso blank); (107) fly-title APPENDICES (verso blank); 109-121 text of APPENDICES (verso blank); (123) fly-title BIBLIOGRAPHY (verso blank); 125-128 text of BIBLIOGRAPHY; (129) fly-title INDEX (verso blank); 131-140 text of INDEX
Binding:
Quarter bound with white art vellum spine over decorated Japanese paper boards; sheets completely untrimmed. Spine: [double rule] |NOTES | ON | FIGURES | OF | EARTH | [device] | COVER | [rule] | CRANWELL | [double rule] | McBRIDE (see image above).
Dedication:
[rule] | TO MANUEL AND TO ALL OTHER CHAMPIONS | OF POICTESME IS DEDICATED THIS RECORD OF | THE WOMEN AND GODS AND HEROES WHO | WERE LOVELY AND POTENT IN POICTESME'S | YOUTH | [rule] (see image above).
Limitation:
THERE have been printed eight hundred and | sixty-five copies of NOTES ON FIGURES OF | EARTH of which eight hundred and thirty-one | are for sale. | [in italic] This is number [handwritten in red] 409
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked glassine dust jacket and unmarked cardboard slipcase covered in black paper (see image above).
Notes:
An expository lexicon of names, places, and references found in Figures of Earth.
