Books About James Branch Cabell
NO PLACE ON EARTH:
Ellen Glasgow,
James Branch Cabell and
Richmond-in-Virginia, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Hall Code |
Description |
E14 |
First Printing 1959 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: NO PLACE ON EARTH | Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell | And Richmond-in-Virginia | BY LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR. | [publisher's device] | AUSTIN • UNIVERSIY OF TEXAS PRESS (see image above).
Title page verso: © 1959 by the University of Texas Press | Published as a Supplement to [in italic] The Texas Quarterly, | Volume Two, Number Three | Library of Congress Catalog Card 59-14950 | Manufactured in the United States of America | By the Printing Division of the University of Texas (see image above).
Publication:
Austin: University of Texas Press; 1959
Collation:
Thin royal octavo [25.1 cm. (9⅞-in.) x 17.6 cm. (7-in.)]; xii + 84; (i) half-title; (ii) frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-x Preface; (xi) Contents (verso blank); 3-81 text, (82) colophon
Binding:
Grey cloth; silver lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed. Spine: [lettered down] RUBIN NO PLACE ON EARTH TEXAS (see image above).
Frontispiece:
The well known photograph used as the frontispiece was taken in the Cabell home on Monument Avenue, and originally appeared in Arts & Decoration Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 1, for November, 1928, where it illustrated an article by Burton Rascoe titled "An Intimate Visit to James Cabell and Ellen Glasgow via an Air Flight to Richmond". It is a particularly appropriate photo to use as the frontispiece for this work: it is the only known photograph in which Cabell and Glasgow appear together (see image above).
Dedication:
FOR GUY AND VIRGINIA FRIDDELL
Colophon:
NO PLACE ON EARTH | [in italic] Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell, and Richmond-in-Virginia | BY LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR. | published as a supplement to [in italic] The Texas Quarterly, | Volume Two, Number Three | wa composed on the Intertype in twelve-point Garamond type, leaded two | points. Display type is eighteen-point and twelve-point Garamond. | The book s printed on Logan Eggshell, a paper manufactured by the | Chillicothe Paper Company. Copies issued separately from The Texas | Quarterly are bound in Holliston Roxite Linen. | Set into type, printed, and bound by the Printing Division of the University | of Texas. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, black and white lettering and decorations; grey and black ground on spine and front panel (see image above).
Spine: [lettered down in white[ [on black ground] RUBIN {on grey ground] NO PLACE ON EARTH TEXAS
Front panel: [all text in white on black ground] NO PLACE | ON EARTH | [in italic] Ellen Glasgow, James Branch CabelL | And Richmond-in-Virginia | BY LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR.
Rear panel: [all text in black on white ground] [list of three titles, with price and description, available from the Press] | [flush right in italic] From your favorite bookseller or | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, AUSTIN 12
Front flap: [flush right] $2.50 | NO PLACE | ON EARTH | [in italic] Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabel | And Richmond-in-Virginia | BY LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR. | [37-line blurb in five paragraphs] | [flush right] (Continued on back flap | ELLEN GLASGOW'S HOME IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
Rear flap: [photograph of the author] | [10-line biography of Mr. Rubin] | Continued from front flap) | [12-line continuation of blurb] | [flush right] UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, AUSTIN | Printed in U.S.A.
Notes:
Guy Friddell (1921-2013) was a long-serving newspaper coliumnist and local media personality in Richmond, Virginia. He and his wife Virginia married in 1947. She died in 1994.
