Books About James Branch Cabell

WHAT CAN BE SAVED FROM THE WRECKAGE?
James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-first Century,
by Michael Swanwick

Hall Code
Description
*E36
First Printing 2007

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: What Can Be Saved | from the | Wreckage ? | [decorated rule] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | in the | TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY | [decorated rule] [decorated rule] | Michael Swanwick | [decorated rule] [decorated rule] | with a Preface by | Barry Humphries | TEMPORARY CULTURE [decorated rule] 2007 (see image above).

Title page verso: What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage ? | James Branch Cabell in the Twentieth-Century | Copyright © 2007 by Michael Swanwick | Jurgen Down Under © 2007 by Barry Humphries | [in italic] Storisende : collage for Michael Swanwick © 2007 by Temporary Culture | The Sigil on page 53 is reproduced from [in italic] The Cream of the Jest. | [decorated rule] | TEMPORARY CULTURE | is published by : | HENRY WESSELLS | P. O. BOX 43072 | UPPER MONTCLAIR, NJ 07043 | Printed in the United States of America. | All rights reserved. | ISBN 0-9764660-2-3 / ISBN-13 978-0-9764660-2-4 (signed) | ISBN 0-9764660-3-1 / ISBN-13 978-0-9764660-3-1 (paper covers) | iv (see image above).

Publication:

Upper Montclair, N.J.: Temporary Culture; 2007

Collation:

Large format paperback [22.8 cm. (9-in.) x 15.2 cm. (6-in.)]; viii + 54 + 1 blank leaf. (i) half-title; (ii) limitation; (iii) title page; iv publication data; v-vii Jurgen Down Under by Barry Humphries (verso blank); (1)-38 text; 39-48 Notes; 49-51 Bibliography (verso blank); 53 drawing: "The Sigil of Scotia" by Mr. Cabell (verso blank); 1 blank leaf.

Wraps:

White paper; black and white lettering and decorations (see image above).

Spine: [in white on black ground at top of spine, lettered up] MICHAEL SWANWICK :: WHAT CAN BE SAVED FROM THE WRECKAGE ? [below, in black on white ground, lettered up] TEMPORARY CULTURE

Front panel: [partial reproduction of Storisende: collage for Michael Swanwick, incorproating title text in black] What Can Be Saved | from the | Wreckage? | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | in the | TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY | Michael Swanwick

Rear panel:[greyscale photo of author beside statue of a lion] | [flush right] photograph © Beth Gwinn | [5-line blurb author's biography] | TEMPORARY CULTURE. P. O. BOX 43072, UPPER MONCLAIR, NJ 07043

Limitation:

Two hundred seventeen copies printed | Seventeen copies specially bound, | numbered, signed by the authors | and with a leaf signed by James Branch Cabell | | [device] | two hundred copies in paper covers | [rule] | [publisher's device in black and pink] (see image above).