Books About James Branch Cabell
BOOKS ABOUT POICTESME:
An Essay in Imaginative Bibliography, by Walter Klinefelter
Hall Code |
Description |
E13 |
First Printing 1937 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [text in white on a black background, superimposed on a two page detail (simplified, in green) derived from Peter Koch's Map of Poictesme, Hall G8] | Books about | POICTESME | [in italic] An Essay in | Imaginative Bibliography | [in italic] By | WALTER KLINEFELTER | [device of a five-pointed star] | THE BLACK CAT PRESS | Chicago · 1937 (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Copyright 1937, by Walter Klinefelter (see image above).
Publication:
Chicago: The Black Cat Press; 1937
Collation:
Thin crown octavo [22 cm. (8¾-in.) x 14.7 cm. (5⅞-in.)];
Binding:
Green decorated paper boards with green diced cloth spine, spine lettered in gilt. Spine: [lettered down] BOOKS ABOUT POICTESME · KLINEFELTER (see image above).
Printer's Note:
PRINTER'S NOTE | [in italic] By permission of James Branch Cabell, 150 copies of | this volume have been printed. Of that number, 100 | copies are reserved by Norman Forgue as a Christmas | greeting to his friends, 25 copies are reserved for the | author, and 25 copies are for direct sale. | [device] | Designed by Douglas Bader and Norman Forgue. | Printed from Monotype Scotch Roman and Ludlow | Bodoni Modern on Bishopstoke hand-made paper by | Louis Graf. Completed at Chicago, Illinois during the | month of December, mcmxxxvii. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
None seen.
Notes:
Norman Forgue (1904-1983) was a printer, graphic designer, author, and music publisher. He founded The Black Cat Press in 1932, and later founded Normandie House (1937) and The Norman Press (1939), and finally a blues and jazz music label, Stepheny Records, in 1956.
