Writing About James Branch Cabell:
Books of Literary Criticism that Discuss Cabell
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELISTS
by Carl Van Doren
Brewer Code |
Description |
A217 |
First Printing 1922 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: CONTEMPORARY | AMERICAN NOVELISTS | 1900 - 1920 | BY | CARL VAN DOREN | [in black letter] New York | THE MACMILLAN COMPANY | 1923 | [in italic] All rights reserved (see image above).
Title page verso: PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | COPYRIGHT, 1922, | By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY | [rule] | Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1922. | Press of | J. J. Little and Ives Company | New York, U. S. A. (see image above).
Publication:
New York: The MacMillan Company; 1922
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.4 cm. (7 15/16-in.) x 13.4 cm. (5¼-in.)]; xiv + 176 + 1 blank leaf. (i) half-title; (ii) publisher's world-wide addresses; (iii) title page; (iv) publishing data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-ix PREFACE (verso blank); xi CONTENTS (verso blank); xiii fly-title (verso blank); 1-176 text; 1 blank leaf.
Binding:
Black cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on spine; blind stamped decoration on front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [rule] | CONTEMPORARY | AMERICAN | NOVELISTS | 1900-1920 | VAN DOREN | MACMILLAN | • • • • | [rule]. Front cover: [all enclosed in a blind stamped single ruled box] (see image above).
Dedication:
To | FREDA KIRCHWEY (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper; black lettering and decorations; rear panel and rear flap blank (see image above).
Spine: [rule] CONTEMPORARY | AMERICAN | NOVELISTS | [device] | VAN DOREN | [device] | [publisher's device] | MACMILLAN | [rule]
Front panel: [all enclosed in a decorative ruled box] CONTEMPORARY | AMERICAN NOVELISTS | 1900-1920 | [device] | [19-line blurb enclosed in a single ruled box] | [in decorative script] By | CARL VAN DOREN
Front flap: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] Of the books discussed by Dr. | Van Doren in this volume the fol- | lowing is a partial list of those | published by | THE MACMILLAN COMPANY | [device] | [list of seven authors and books by each]
Notes:
Freda Kirchwey (1893-1976) was an American writer, journalist, editor, and publisher. She joined The Nation in 1918, becoming managing editor in 1922, chief editor in 1936, and publisher and owner in 1937.
