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 |
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.