Cabell's Contributions to Books

THE HOUSE OF LOST IDENTITY, by Donald Corley

Hall Code
Description
Cabell Contribution(s)
*A14b (E)
First English Printing 1927
A Note for the Intending Reader

IMAGES

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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] | GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY, LTD. | LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1927 | BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [device] | THE HOUSE OF LOST IDENTITY | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).

Publication:

London: George G. Harrap & Company, Ltd.; 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] | HARRAP. 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:

Note seen.

Notes:

Published from imported sheets of the first printing (Hall A14). Title page is a cancel.