The Silver Stallion
Cabell's Contributions to Books
THE SHORT STORY'S MUTATIONS, byFrances Newman
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A40 |
First Printing |
dust jacket blurb |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [rule] | THE SHORT STORY'S MUTATIONS | FROM PETRONIUS | TO PAUL MORAND | [in italic] by | FRANCES NEWMAN | [publisher's device] | NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH, INC. MCMXXIV | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY | B. W. HUEBSCH, INC. | [rule] | PRINTED IN U. S. A. (see image above).
Publication:
New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc.; 1924
Collation:
Crown octavo [21 cm. (8¼-in.) x 14.2 cm. (5½-in.)]; 1 blank leaf + viii + 332 + 1 blank leaf; 1 blank leaf not counted in pagination; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v)-(vi) CONTENTS; (vii) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (verso blank); 1-332 text; 1 blank leaf not counted in pagination
Binding:
Half bound in purple cloth over pink pebbled paper boards; pink spine label lettered and decorated in black, top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine label: [all enclosed in single ruled box] | [rule] | THE | SHORT | STORY'S | MUTATIONS | by | FRANCES NEWMAN | [rule] (see image above).
Dedication:
None
Dust jacket:
Heavy grey paper lettered and decorated in black on spine and front and rear panels, flaps blank (see image above).
Spine: NEWMAN | [rule] | THE | SHORT | STORY'S | MUTATIONS | [enclosed in a single ruled box] Including sixteen | epoch-making | stories by | [rule] | [list of 124 authors] | etc., etc. | [below boxed section] $2.50 | [publisher's device] | HUEBSCH
Front panel: FRANCES NEWMAN | [rule] | THE | SHORT | STORY'S | MUTATIONS | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | SAYS OF THE AUTHOR: | [in bold] Miss Frances Newman | I would without any hesitancy | rank, with Mrs. Elinor Wylie, as | the most opulently gifted | of all the young women | now publishing in America.
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] | According to the theory | of mutation, species | have not arisen gradu- | ally as the result of | selection operating for | thousands of years. | They have arisen from | changes that were dis- | continuous and sudden, | however small. | [flush right] -DE VRIES
Notes:
Mr. Cabell's only contribution to this work is the short quote on the front panel of the dust jacket.