Books About James Branch Cabell
JAMES BRANCH CABELL:
Centennial Essays, edited by M. Thomas
Inge and Edgar MacDonald
Hall Code |
Description |
*E32 |
First Printing 1983 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [device] [in italic] CENTENNIAL ESSAYS | [rule] | Edited by M. Thomas Inge | and Edgar MacDonald | Louisiana State University Press | Baton Rouge and London (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright © 1983 by Louisiana State University Press | All rights reserved | Manufactured in the United States of America | Design: Joanna Hill | Typeface: Linotron Baskerville | Typewriter: Graphic Composition | Printer: Thomson-Shore | Binder: John Dekker and Sons | [in italic] Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data | Main entry under title: | James Branch Cabell, centennial essays. | (Southern literary studies) | The majority of essays in this volume were presented at a sympo- | sium held Oct. 14-17, 1979, in Richmond, Va. sponsored by the Vir- | ginia Commonwealth University. | Bibliography: p. | Includes index. | 1. Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958-Addresses, essays, lectures. | 2. Authors, American- 20th century-Biography-Addresses, es- | says, lectures. | I. Inge, M. Thomas. II. MacDonald, Edgar E. | III. Virginia Commonwealth University. IV. Series | PS3505.A153Z628 813'.52 82-7821 | ISBN 0-8071-1028-0 AACR2 | Publication of these essays was assisted by a generous grant from the | Associates of the James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Common- | wealth University. (see image above).
Publication:
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press; 1983
Collation:
Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼-in.) x 16 cm. (6¼-in.)]; xiv + 186; (i) half-title; (ii) frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data); (v) Contents (verso blank); (ix)-x Preface; (xi)-xii Chronology; (xiii) fly-title (verso blank); (1)-179 text verso blank); (181)-182 Notes on Contributors; (183)-186 Index.
Binding:
Ivory cloth; black lettering and decorations on spine only; all edges trimmed. Spine: [lettered down] Inge and MacDonald JAMES BRANCH CABELL: [in italic] CENTENNIAL ESSAYS [publisher's device] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
[photograph of Mr. Cabell] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Dark grey unfigured endpapers.
Dust jacket:
Blue paper, lettering and decorations in black and white (see image above).
Spine: [lettered down in black] Inge and MacDonald JAMES BRANCH CABELL: [in italic] CENTENNIAL ESSAYS [publisher's device in white]
Front panel: [greyscale photo of Mr. Cabell] | [in black} JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [device in white] [in black italic] CENTENNIAL ESSAYS [device in white] | [white rule] | [in black] EDITED BY M. THOMAS INGE AND EDGAR E. MACDONALD
Rear panel: [in white] Recently published in | Southern Literary Studies | LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR. EDITOR | [in black with white rules between titles] [titles and excerpts from reviews of three titles in the series] | [in black] LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS | Batonb Rouge, 70803 | [flush right] ISBN 0-8071-1028-0
Front flap: [in black} JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] CENTENNIAL ESSAYS | [EDITED BY M. THOMAS INGE AND | EDGAR E. MACDONALD | [38-line blurb in two paragraphs]
Rear flap: [in black] [21-line continuation of blurb from front flap] | [15-lines, biographies of the editors] | [in italic] Southern Literary Studies | Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Editor | Louisiana State University PRess | Baton Rouge, 70803
Notes:
The majority of these essays were presented at a symposium held Oct. 14-17, 1979, in Richmond, Virginia, sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University.
