Cabell's Contributions to Books
THE THIRTY-FIRST OF FEBRUARY, by Nelson Bond
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A28 |
First Printing |
A Conveyance of Title in Fee Simple |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE THIRTY-FIRST | OF FEBRUARY | [in italic] By | NELSON BOND | in italic] With a Conveyance of Title in Fee Simple by | James Branch Cabell | Who is the third who walks always besides you? | When I count, there are only you amd I together | But when I look ahead up the white road | There is always another one walking beside you | Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded | I do not know whether a man or a woman | — But who is that on the other side of you? | GNOME PRESS [publisher's device] NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright 1949 by Nelson Bond | Copyright 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948 | by Nelson Bond | All rights reserved. This book, or | parts thereof, may not be reproduced | in any form without permission. | [in italic] First Edition | Manufactured in the United States of America (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Gnome Press; 1949
Collation:
Crown octavo [21 cm. (8¼-in.) x 14.5 cm. (5¾-in.)]; 272 +6 pages not counted in pagination + three blank leaves. (1) half-title; (2) list of Mr. Bond's books; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7) conveyance of title (verso blank); (9)-10 Author's Note; (11) Contents (verso blank); (11) fly-title (verso blank); (13)-66 text; leaf not couned in pagination (fly-title recto, verso blank); (67)-122 text (verso blank, not counted in pagination); (fly-title recto, not counted in pagination) (verso continues text as p. (122)); 123-163 text (verso blank, not counted in pagination); (fly-title recto, not counted in pagination) (verso continues text as p. (164)); 165-219 text (verso blank, not counted in pagination); (fly-title recto, not counted in pagination) (verso continues text as p. (220)); 221-272 text; three blank leaves.
Binding:
Pink cloth; red-brown text on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed. Spine [lettered down] THE [decorative script] Thirty-first OF February • Nelson Bond | [lettered across] | GNOME | PRESS. Front cover: [decorative script] The | Thirty-first | of | February (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To | My Mother and my Father | Together here, as ever in my heart (see image above).
Conveyance of Title:
x x x i | "Item, so that he may abscond | Untroubled and stay accurst, | I grant hereby to Nelson Bond, | In fee forever, nor the worst | Nor best of titles such as erst | My boyhood fashionied and forsook - - | by which I mean [in italic] The Thirty-first | of February - - for his book. " | [in italic] JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Dust jacket:
Red ground, lettering and decorations in pink and white on spine and front cover; white ground, red lettering and decorations on rear cover and flaps (see image above).
Spine: [lettered down] [in pink] THE [white decorative script] Thirty-first [in pink] OF [white decorative script] February [in pink] • [white decorative script] Nelson Bond | [lettered across in pink] | GNOME | PRESS.
Front cover: [in pink] THE [white decorative script] Thirty-first | [in pink] OF [white decorative script] February | [illustration by James Gibson in white, red, and pink] | [in white] 13 [in pink] FLIGHTS | OF FANTASY | by [white decorative script] Nelson Bond
Rear cover: [upper left] photograph of the author [upper right] "Conveyance of Title | in Fee Simple" | So does James Branch Cabell des- | cribe his contribution in the manner | of Francois Villon, to this re- | markable volume by a | fellow Virginian. | [center left] NELSON BOND | AUTHOR OF | "THE THIRTY-FIRST | OF FEBRUARY | [center right] [reproduction of a typed note signed by Mr. Cabell : JAMES BRANCH CABELL | x x x i | "Item, so that he may abscond | Untroubled and stay accurst, | I grant hereby to Nelson Bond, | In fee forever, nor the worst | Nor best of titles such as erst | My boyhood fashionied and forsook - - | by which I mean The Thirty-first | of February - - for his book. " | [facsimile signature] | [bottom of page] Mr. Cabell adds, | "I do not well see what more I could say as to this collection | of fine fantasies beyond the statement that, taking them as a whole, | I like some of the thirteen stories even better than I do the others. | To my judgment, Mr. Bond has genius." | THE GNOME PRESS | 421 CLAREMONT PARKWAY | [publisher's device] | NEW YORK 57, N. Y.
Front flap: [flush right] $3.00 | [34-blurb] | THE GNOME PRESS NEW YORK | Jacket Design by James Gibson
Rear flap: [27 lines: blurbs and excerpts from reviews of Gnome Press titles | THE GNOME PRESS NEW YORK
Notes:
The quotation on the title page is from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Section V, "What the Thunder Said."
