Books About James Branch Cabell

JAMES BRANCH CABELL EVENING:
Hanna Restaurant
Tuesday December 4th MCMXXIII,
by Don Bregenzer & Samuel Loveman

Hall Code
Description
E24
First Printing 1923

IMAGES

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | EVENING | HANNA RESTAURANT | [in italic] Tuersday December 4th | MCMXXIII | [device] | THE COLOPHON CLUB | Cleveland (see image above).

Title page verso: frontispiece

Publication:

Cleveland: The Colophon Club; 1923

Collation:

xx [25.4 cm. (10-in.) x 17.7 cm. (7-in.)]; 1 blank leaf + 4+ 1 blank leaf. 1 blank leaf; (1) title page); (2) frontispiece; (3) Varia Lectiones (verso blank); 1 blank leaf; all text in sepia

Wraps:

Greyish-brown Yapp edged paper wraps; bound with one staple and silver cord (Hall reports brown cord); lettering in black on front cover. Front cover: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | EVENING | 4 December | MCMXXIII | THE | COLOPHON | CLUB [in italic] of | CLEVELAND (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Tipped-in sepia photo of Mr. Cabell, signed in the negative; subscript 4-line quotation from Beyond Life (see image above).

Variae Lectiones:

[in italic] Variae Lectiones | [quotation from Jurgen] | Leonard Smith, Adjudicator | [list of speakers and topics] | Discussion ad libitum | [quotation from The Line of Love] (see image above).

Notes:

This is the program from a discussion honoring Mr. Cabell, held by The Colophon Club at Hannah's Restaurant, Cleveland, on December 4, 1923.