Cabell's Contributions to Books
This section of the Bibliography covers books to which Cabell made an original contribution; it does not include books which reprint Cabell material originally appearing elsewhere. Until we find the time to list all these items, as found in Brewer, Hall, and other sources, we are posting only such items as we have had occasion to link to from the Bibliographies or other places on the site. In the meantime most of this material can be seen in Brewer, pp. 73-116, and Hall, pp. 123-34 & 199-200.
Hall Code | Title of Book | Author (or Editor) | Title of Cabell Material |
A1 | The VMI Bomb | Otho V. Keane | Res Publica | A Private Affair | The First Maid |
A2 | Jamestown Tributes and Toasts | Julia Wyatt Bullard | The New Virginia |
A3 | Little Verses and Big Names | anon. [Stewart Edward White] | Involuntary Sonnet |
A4 (E2) | Jurgen and the Censor | E.H. Bierstadt & others | Preface | The Judging of Jurgen |
A5 (F1) | A Bibliographic Check-list of the Works of James Branch Cabell |
Merle Johnson | An Epistolary Preface |
A6 | The Unpublished Books of Benjamin De Casseres |
Benjamin De Casseres | Untitled Contribution |
A7 | The Queen Pedauque | Anatole France | Introduction |
A8 | A Round Table in Poictesme | Don Bregenzer & Samuel Loveman |
The Author of the Eagle's Shadow |
A9 | A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell |
Guy Holt | About These Books |
A10 | The American Mercury | H. L. Mencken | Once More, The Immortals |
A11 | James Branch Cabell | Carl Van Doren | Map of Poictesme |
A12 | Skeleton Biography Form | A Foreword | |
A13 | The Worm Ourobouros | E.R. Eddison | Untitled Letter |
An except from this letter was also used as a blurb on the belly band for the 1926 edition |
A14 | The House of Lost Identity | Donald Corley | A Note for the Intending Reader |
A15 | Cabellian Harmonics | Warren A. McNeill | A Note on Cabellian Harmonics |
A16 | Morrow's Almanack for 1930 | Thayer Hobson | Reflections for the Ninth of May |
A17 | Frances Newman's Letters | Hansell Baugh | A Note on Frances Newman |
A18 | Modern Writers at Work | Josephine K. Piercy | Untitled Paragraph about "style" |
A19 | The Colophon, No. 7 | Elmer Adler, Burton Emmett, & John T. Winterich |
Recipes for Writers |
A20 | Legends of Virginia | Helena Lefroy Caperton | Untitled Note on dust jacket |
A21 | James Branch Cabell: A Revised Bibliography |
I.R. Brussel | On Second Thought |
A22 | Prometheans | Burton Rascoe | Untitled Letter from JBC to Rascoe dated August 10, 1919, discussing the evolution of Jurgen |
A23 | Breaking Into Print |
Elmer Adler | Untitled letter dated December 28,
1932, describing
his writing process | facsimile of typescript page from Smire |
A24 | Immortal Lyrics | Hudson Strode | Untitled excerpt from a letter on writing poetry |
A25 | Broadside: Goudy | James Branch Cabell | GOUDY: An Acrostic |
A26 | This is My Best | Whit Burnett | Untitled Paragraph |
A27 | St. Nicholas is Here Again | Untitled Paragraph | |
A28 | The Thirty-First of February | Nelson Bond | Conveyance of Title in Fee Simple |
A29 | The World's Best | Whit Burnett | Untitled Paragraph |
A30 | James Branch Cabell, a Bibliography | Frances Joan Brewer | A Foreward |
A31 | Notes on the Cabell Collection of the University of Virginia |
Matthew Bruccoli | Cabell's Notes on His Printed Books |
A32 | James Branch Cabell: the Dream and the Reality |
Desmond Tarrant | Untitled Letter |
A33 | A Colophonic Proposal | Don Bregenzer | Untitled Letter |
A34 | Between Friends | Margaret Freeman Cabell | Numerous Untitled Letters |
*A35 | The Letters of James Branch Cabell | Edward Wagenknecht | Numerous Untitled Letters |
*A36 | Wild Names I have Met | An English Instructor (Alfred Hubbard Holt) |
Excerpt from Untitled Letter |
*A37 | Intimate Portraits | Barrett H. Clark | Excerpt from Untitled Letter |
*A38 | Straight Down a Crooked Lane | Martha Byrd Porter | Jacket Blurb |
*A39 | Lady Godiva and Master Tom | Raoul C. Faure | Jacket Blurb |
*A40 | The Short Story's Mutations | Frances Newman | Jacket Blurb |
*A41 | Gates of Life | Edwin Björkman | Jacket Blurb |
*A42 | The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Cover Blurb |
*A43 | Broadside: Circular | James Branch Cabell | Circular Sent Members of the Families Interested |