Writing About James Branch Cabell:
Books of Literary Criticism that Discuss Cabell
LETTERS ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS
by Martin MacCollough (pseudonym of Samuel W. Tait, Jr.)
Brewer Code |
Description |
A129 |
First Printing 1921 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: LETTERS ON | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN | AUTHORS | BY | MARTIN MACCOLLOUGH | [publisher's device] | BOSTON | THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY | 1921 (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Copyright, 1921, by | THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY | The Four Seas Press | Boston, Mass., U. S. A. (see image above).
Publication:
Boston: The Four Seas Company; 1921
Collation:
Duodecimo [19.5 cm. (7¾-in.) x 13.5 cm. (5⅜-in.)]; 100 pp.; (1) half-title (verso blank); (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) fly title (verso blank); 7-99 text (verso blank). Pp. (5), (13), (27), 47), (59), (79), (91) are fly-titles, the versos are blank. Pp. (46), (78), and (100) are blank.
Binding:
Tan paper boards; white paper label on spine; front cover blank; top edge trimmed, else untrimed. Spine: [lettered down] LETTERS ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS (see image above).
Dedication:
None.
Dust jacket:
Not seen.
Notes:
The primary authors addressed in each of the letters are (I) James Branch Cabell, (II) Burton Rascoe, (III) H. L. Mencken, (IV) George Jean Nathan, (V) Frank Harris, (VI) Theodore Dreiser, and (VII) Willa Cather. In each letter, though, the author also discusses others that he sees as related to his primary subject.
