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ON STRANGE ALTARS: A Book of Enthusiasms
by PAUL JORDAN-SMITH
Brewer Code |
Description |
*A111a |
Second Printing 1924 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: On Strange Altars | A Book of Enthusiasms | [in italic] By | Paul Jordan-Smith | New York | Albert & Charles Boni | 1924 (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright, 1924 | BY ALBERT & CHARLES BONI | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Albert & Charles Boni; 1924
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.3 cm. (7⅝-in.) x 13.4 cm. (5¼-in.)]; 294 + 1 blank leaf. (1) half-title; (2) books by Jordan-Smith; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7) TABLE OF CONTENTS (verso blank); (9) fly-title (verso blank); 11-13 INTRODUCTORY WARNING; 14-293 text (verso blank); 1 blank leaf.
Binding:
Blanck type "T" green ribbed cloth; gilt lettering on spine; top edge trimmed. Spine: ON | STRANGE | ALTARS | BY | JORDAN-SMITH | A·C·&·BONI (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | W. E. S. AND B. B. S. | WITHOUT WHOSE SYMPATHETIC ASSISTANCE | THE DOING OF THIS BOOK WOULD HAVE BEEN | IMPOSSIBLE. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Heavy grey paper; black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: [double rule] ON | STRANGE | ALTARS | BY | PAUL | JORDAN- | SMITH | [in italic] Second Printing | A. & C. BONI | [double rule]
Front panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box and all bounded by a single rule on left and right inside the box] On Strange Altars | By | PAUL JORDAN SMITH | [in italic] Author of "Cables of Cobweb" | [7-line author's blurb] | [in italic] Appreciations of: | [list of 14 authors and subjects in two columns] | [4-line excerpt from a review in the New York Evening Post] | [rule] | ALBERT & CHARLES BONI
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] THE AMERICAN LIBRARY | [publisher's device] | [in italic] Editors: Van Wyck Brooks, Robert Morse Lovett | Albert J. Nock. John Macy | [list of 11 titles followed by 3-line blurb]
Front flap: ON STRANGE ALTARS | [flush right] $2.00 net | Recent Publications: | [list of seven titles, the first (only) followed by short excerpts from two reviews]
Rear flap: [16-line publisher's advertisement in two paragraphs] | [rule] | [publisher's coupon]
Notes:
See the notes on the index page for On Strange Altars for details of the differences between the first and second printings.
