Full Title:

Title page recto: [all in decorative script] [upper section] NONSENSEORSHIP | by | [center section] [left side] HEYWOOD BROUN | GEORGE S. CHAPPELL | RUTH HALE | BEN HECHT | WALLACE IRWIN | ROBERT KEABLE | HELEN BULLITT LOWREY | and the AUTHOR of "THE | Edited by | [three leaf devices] SUNDRY | CONCERNING | INHIBITIONS | [center] [ device of flaming sword] | [right side] FREDERICK O'BRIEN | DOROTHY PARKER | FRANK SWINNERTON | H. M. TOMLINSON | CHARLES HANSON TOWNE | JOHN V. A. WEAVER | ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT | MIRRORS OF WASHINGTON" | G. P. P. | OBSERVATIONS | PROHIBITIONS | AND [four leaf devices] | [lower section] ILLEGALITIES | Illustrated by | RALPH BARTON | G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS | NEW YORK AND LONDON | The Knickerbocker Press | 1922 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1922 | by | G. P. Putnam's Sons | [rule] | Manufactured in the United States of America | [[Knickerbocker Press device] (see image above).

Publication:

New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press; 1922

Collation:

Medium octavo [213.3 cm. (9 3/16-in.) x 16 cm. (6⅝-in.)]; xiv + 182 +15 full page tipped in illustrations printed on one side only, not counted in pagination + 2 leaves of advertisements. (i) title page; (ii) publication data; iii-ix introduction "We Have with Us Today" (verso blank); xi-xii Contents; xiii Illustrations (verso blank); (1) half-title (verso blank); 3-181 text (verso blank); three pages of advertisements, not counted in pagination (verso blank) . Illustrations face pp. 3, 5, 17, 33, 45, 53, 69, 83, 95, 113, 143, 148, 166.

Binding:

Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover, edges untrimmed. Spine: [thick rule over thin rule] | NON- | SENSE- | OR- | SHIP | [thin rule over thick rule] | PUTNAM | [thin rule over thick rule]. Front cover: NONSENSEORSHIP | [device of flaming sword] (see image above).

Illustrations:

There is no frontispiece but there are fifteen full-page illustrations by Ralph Barton. The example shown, DOROTHY PARKER HATING REFORMERS, faces p. 95 and illustrates her poem, REFORMERS: A HYMN OF HATE (see image above).

Dedication:

None.

Endpapers:

G.P. Putnam's Sons logo repeated in white on a grey ground (see image above).