Books About James Branch Cabell

JAMES BRANCH CABELL 1879-1979:
A Centenary Tribute, by Edward Wagenecht

Hall Code
Description
*E31
First Printing 1979

IMAGES

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [in black letter] James Branch Cabell | 1879-1979 | A Centenary Tribute | With an essay by Edward Wagenknecht | Published on the occasion of the Cabell | Exhibition at the University of Virginia Library | October - December 1979 (see image above).

Title page verso: Permission to publish the entry for James Branch Cabell from [in italic] Who | Was Who in America was granted by Marquis Who's Who, Inc. | This keepsake was made possible through funds from | The Associates of the University of Virginia Library.

(see image above).

Publication:

n.p. [Charlottesville, Virginia]: Associates of the University of Virginia Library; 1979

Collation:

Thin royal octavo in wraps [25.4 cm. (i0-in.) x 17.8 cm. (7-in.)]; 12 unnumbered pages; (1) blank (frontispiece verso); (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5)-(10) text by Edward Wagenknecht; (11)-(12) note on the exhibition by Anne E. H. Freudenberg, including the entry on Mr. Cabell from Who Was Who in America.

Wraps:

Gold paper wraps stapled twice through spine; black lettering on front cover only; all edges trimmed. Front cover: [in black letter] James Branch Cabell | 1879-1979 (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Photograph of James Branch Cabell [photo taken at the Dementi Studio, Richmond, c. 1937] (see image above).

Notes:

A keepsake issued in association with the Cabell Centenary Exhibition at the University of Virginia Library, October - December 1979.