Books About James Branch Cabell

JAMES BRANCH CABELL, by Joe Lee Davis

Hall Code
Description
E16a
Paperback Edition [1962?]

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | By JOE LEE DAVIS | [in italic] University of Michigan | [publisher's device] | [rule] | COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESS • [in italic] Publishers | NEW HAVEN, CONN. | [in italic] Distributed by | GROSSET & DUNLAP | NEW YORK (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] This COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESS edition | is published by Special Arrangement | with TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, INC. | [in italic] Copyright © 1962, by Twayne Publishers, Inc. | All rights reserved | Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 62-16816 | MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY | UNITED PRINTING SERVICES, INC. | NEW HAVEN, CONN. (see image above).

Publication:

New Haven, Conn.: College & University Press; n.d. (1962?)

Collation:

Crown octavo in wraps [22 cm. (8-in.) x 13.7 cm. (5⅜-in.)]; 174 + 1 blank leaf; (1) series title / half-title (verso blank); (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7)-(11) Preface (verso blank); (13)-(14) Acknowledgements; (15) Contents (verso blank); 17-19 Chronology (verso blank); (21) fly-title (verso blank); 23-151 text; 152-161 Notes and References; 162-166 Selected Bibliography; 167-174 Index; 1 blank leaf.

Wraps:

White clay finished paper, orangw ground on spine and front panel; lettering and decorations in black (see image above).

Spine: [lettered down] DAVIS JAMES BRANCH CABELL [lettered across] Grosset | & | Dunlap | [publisher's device] | T-21

Front panel: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [llustration in black and white on white ground, enclosed in orange single ruled box] | [in italic] Twayne's United States Authors Series | T-21 | $1.95

Rear panel: [in italic] A Continuing Series | [10-line blurb] | ABOUT THE BOOK - [continued as 11-line blurb] | ABOUT THE AUTHOR - [continued as 10-line author's biography] | [at left] [publisher's device] [at right in three lines] COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESS • Publishers | 263 Chapel Street New Haven, Conn. | GROSSET & DUNLAP • New York • Distributors

Dedication:

TO | VIRGINIA ANSON MORRIS (see image above).

Notes:

This title is the 21st publication in Twayne's United States Authors Series.

This was reprinted an unknown number of times: in boards by Twayne; and in soft covers by the College & University Press. We have not seen another C&U Press printing, but other printings seem likely.