Books About James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell: The Dream
and the Reality, by Desmond Tarrant

Hall Code
Description
A32 (E18)
First Printing 1967

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | THE DREAM | AND THE | REALITY | [device] | BY DESMOND TARRANT | UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS | NORMAN (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-15595 | Copyright 1967 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Publishing Divi- | sion of the University. Composed and printed at Norman, Oklahoma, | U. S. A., by the University of Oklahoma Press. First edition. (see image above).

Publication:

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press; 1967

Collation:

Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼-in.) x 16 cm. (6¼-in.)]; xii + 292; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); viii-x INTRODUCTION; xi-xii CONTENTS; (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-282 text; 283-286 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; 287-292 INDEX. Pp. (1), (31), (53), and (207) are fly-titles. Pp. (ii), (vi), (30), (32), (52), (54), and (208) are blank.

Binding:

Pink cloth; black and white lettering and decorations on spine only; all edges trimmed. Spine: [lettered down] [device in black] [in white, two lines] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | THE DREAM AND THE REALITY [device in black] {lettered horizontally, in black italic] University | of Oklahoma | Press (see image above).

Dedication:

[in italic] To Dorrie | For coming Home with me and | For giving me access to the Maker (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Cream paper; lettering and decorations in black and pink (see image above).

Spine: [lettered down] [device] [in two lines, pink over black] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | THE DREAM AND THE REALITY [device] [in pink] TARRANT [lettered horizontally in black italic] University | of Oklahoma | Press

Front panel: [device] | [in pink] JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [in black] THE DREAM | AND THE | REALITY | [device] | [in pink italic] By Desmond Tarrant

Rear panel: [in pink] OTHER LITERARY FIGURES | [pink rule] | [in pink] WILLIAM FAULKNER | [[in black, 12-lines, excerpts from reviews] | [in pink] W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM | [in black, 12-lines, excerpts from reviews] | [pink rule] | [in pink] [in italic] Through your favorite bookseller, published by | UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN

Front flap: [flush right] $5.95 | [in pink] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE DREAM | AND THE | REALITY | [in black, 21-line blurb in three paragraphs | [in italic] (Continued on back flap)

Rear flap: [26-line continuation of blurb from front flap] | [in pink] THE AUTHOR | [8-line author's biography] | [in pink] [publisher's device] | UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS | [in italic] Norman