Full Title:

Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | Three Essays | [in italic] by | Carl Van Doren | H. L. Mencken | Hugh Walpole | KENNIKAT PRESS | Port Washington, N.Y. | 1967 (see image above).

Title page verso: VAN DOREN title originally published in 1932 | MENCKEN title originally published in 1927 | WALPOLE title originally published in 1920 | The three items issued for the first time together by | Kennikat Press in 1966 | Manufactured in the United States of America | Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 66-25931 (see image above).

Publication:

Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press; 1967

Collation:

Crown octavo [21 cm. (8¼-in.) x 14.4 cm. (5⅝-in.)]; x + 90 + 22 + 22 (1 unnumbered illustration leaf inserted between pp. 22 & 23 in this last section).(i) half-title: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | Three Essays (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) CONTENTS (verso blank); (vii) half-title: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | by | CARL VAN DOREN (verso blank); (ix) CONTENTS (verso blank); 1-86 text of Van Doren essay; 87-89 Bibliography (iii) CONTENTS (verso blank); (1) half-title: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | by | H. L. MENCKEN (verso blank); 3-22 text of Mencken essay; (1) half-title: THE ART OF | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | By | HUGH WALPOLE | WITH AN APPENDIX OF INDIVIDUAL | COMMENT UPON THE CABELL BOOKS (verso blank); 3-16 text of the Walpole essay; (17) fly-title: BOOKS BY MR. CABELL; (18) verse: THE TOY-MAKER; 19-22 commentary; (22) recto blank, verso reproduction of a manuscript page from Jurgen; 23-(34) commentary.

Binding:

Buff cloth; black lettering on spine only; top edge trimmed. Spine: Van Doren | • | Mencken | • | Walpole | [lettered down] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [lettered across] KENNIKAT (see image above).

Notes:

This volume reprints Carl Van Doren's 1932 revised issue of his essay James Branch Cabell (A11 / E7), H.L. Mencken's 1927 James Branch Cabell (E8), and Hugh Walpole's 1920 The Art of James Branch Cabell (C1 / E3 / F7).