Cabell's Contributions to Books
THE HOUSE OF LOST IDENTITY, by Donald Corley
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A14a |
Second Printing 1927 |
A Note for the Intending Reader |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [mixed Roman, decorative script, and italic] The HOUSE of | LOST IDENTITY | [decorated double rule] | Tales & Drawings | by | DONALD CORLEY | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [illustration] | Robert M. McBride & Company | NEW YORK Mdccccxxvii (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1927 | BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Published May, 1927 | Second Printing, September, 1927 | [device] | THE HOUSE OF LOST IDENTITY | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co.; 1927
Collation:
Crown octavo [21 cm. (8 5/16-in.) x 15 cm. (6-in.)]; xvi1 + 326 + 1 blank leaf; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) blank; (iv) frontispiece; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; (vii) dedication (verso blank); ix-xi Introduction, "A Note for the Intending Reader," by James Branch Cabell; (xii) quotation; (xiii) CONTENTS; (xiv) illustration; (xvi) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; (xvii) illustration; (1) fly-title; (2) illustration; 3-324 text, (325)-(326) illustrations; 1 blank leaf.
Binding:
Black cloth; gilt lettering on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained black, else untrimmed. Spine: [decorated double rule] | [decorated script] The | HOUSE | [decorated script] of LOST | IDENTITY | [decorated double rule] | DONALD | CORLEY | [decorated double rule] | McBRIDE. Front cover: [decorated script] The HOUSE of | LOST IDENTITY | [illustration] | [decorated script] DONALD CORLEY (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Pen and ink drawing by Donald Corely | [subscript] ". . . Tassifir the Golden, whose place in the sea no one knows . . ." | [flush right, in italic] The Song of the Tombelaine. (see image above).
Dedication:
TO ALL THE FEY CHILDREN | IN THE WORLD | AND TO ONE FEY CHILD | IN PARTICULAR (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Gold paper; black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: [decorated double rule] | [decorated script] The | HOUSE | [decorated script] of LOST | IDENTITY | [decorated double rule] | DONALD | CORLEY | [decorated double rule] | [in italic] With | an Introduction | by | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [publisher's device] | [in italic] Second | Large | Printing | McBRIDE
Front panel: [all enclosed in a single ruled box divided into two panels] [upper panel, enclosed in a second single ruled box] [mixed Roman and decorative script] The HOUSE of | LOST IDENTITY | [decorated double rule] | By | DONALD CORLEY | [left side] WITH AN | INTRODUCTION [in italic] by [right side] JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [double rule] [lower panel] [illustration enclosed in a decorated box] | [enclosed in a single ruled box] ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY : [in italic] PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [in italic] Second Large Printing | THE HOUSE OF | LOST IDENTITY | [in italic] Tales and Drawings by | DONALD CORLEY | [rule] | [in italic] With an introduction by JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [excerpts from four reviews] | [in bold italic] So that, having read this far, you will agree that "Here is Magic." | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers 7 WEST 16th STREET NEW YORK
Front flap: [flush right] net $2.50 | [rule] | THE HOUSE OF | LOST IDENTITY | [in italic] Tales and Drawings by | DONALD CORLEY | [in italic] With an introduction by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [25-line blurb in four paragraphs] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers NEW YORK
Rear flap: [decorated rule] | [decorative script] Novels of Distinction | [rule] | [list of eleven titles, each with price and brief blurb] | [in italic] At all Booksellers | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers NEW YORK
Notes:
This second printing is identical to the first except for the printing notice on the verso of the title page.
