Cabell's Contributions to Books

PROMETHEANS: Ancient and Modern, by Burton Rascoe

Hall Code
Description
Cabell Contribution(s)
*A22c
Reprint Edition 1972
Untitled letter

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a triple ruled box] PROMETHEANS | ANCIENT AND MODERN | [device of six pointed star] | BY BURTON RASCOE | [in italic] Essay Index Repriut Series | [at left] [publisher's device] | [ar right] BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS | FREEPORT, NEW YORK (see image above).

Title page verso: Firat published 1933 | Reprinted 1972 | [all enclosed in a single ruled box] Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data | Rascoe, Burton 1892-1957. | Prometheans, ancient and modern. | (Essay index reprint series) | Reprint of the 1933 ed. | CONTENTS: Saint Mark.--Petronius.--Lucian. [etc.] | 1. Authors--Biography. 2. Literature--Addresses, | essays, lectures. I. Title. | PN452.R3 1972 809 70-156707 | ISBN 0-8369-2855-5 | [base of page below enclosed box] PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).

Publication:

Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press; 1972

Collation:

Crown octavo [21.5 cm. (8½-in.) x 14 cm. (5½-in.)]; 296 pp.; (1) half-title; (2) frontispiece; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); 7-11 Introduction: To the Reader (verso blank); (13) Contents (verso blank); (15) fly-title: Prometheans (verso blank); (17) fly-title: Saint Mark (verso blank); 19-287 text (verso blank); 289-296 Index. Pp. (6), (12), (14), (16), (18), (84), (86), (116), (118), (174), (192), (208), (218), (220), (240), (270), (272), and (288) are blanks. Pp. (15), (17), (85), (117), (173), (191), (207), (219), (239), and (271) are fly-titles.

Binding:

Blue-grey cloth; gilt lettering on spine. blind stamped decoration on front cover; all edges trimmed. Spine: [gilt rule] | [lettered down on red ground] PROMETHEANS | + | RASCOE | [gilt rule] | [Books for Libraries Press device]. Front cover: [lower left, blind stamped Books for Libraries Press device] (see image above).

Frontispiece:

[Greyscale classical style drawing of bust of Lucian in an oval border] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | MY MOTHER (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Issued without dust jacket as normal for The Books for Libraries Press.

Notes:

This work is a collection of nine "Prometheans" of literature, of whom Mr. Cabell is one. His contribution is a lengthy, untitled excerpt from a letter from to Rascoe dated August 10, 1919, discussing the evolution of Jurgen (pp. 283-286).

Burton Rascoe was, of course, the dedicatee of Jurgen.

Except for the verso of the title page, this edition is a photographic reprint of the 1933 first edtion, Hall A22.