The Silver Stallion
Cabell's Contributions to Books
JURGEN AND THE CENSOR,
Privately Printed by the Emergency Committee
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A4 (E2) |
First Printing, Large Paper Edition 1920 |
Preface | The Judging of Jurgen |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in red] JURGEN | AND THE CENSOR | [in black] REPORT OF THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE | ORGANIZED TO PROTEST AGAINST THE | SUPPRESSION OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL'S | JURGEN | [rule] | PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE | EDWARD HALE BIERSTADT BARRETT H. CLARK SIDNEY HOWARD | [rule] | [in italic] ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY | NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY | BARRETT H. CLARK (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Privately printed for Barrett H. Clark, 1920
Collation:
Wide medium octavo; [24.1 cm. (9½ in.) x 19.4 cm. (7⅝ in.)]; top edge gilt, else untrimmed; pp. 78 + 1 blank leaf; (1) blank; (2) limitation; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) contents (verso blank); 7-(9) Preface by James Branch Cabell, 10-11 Letter from the Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice to the Secretary of the Emergency Committee (verso blank); (13) fly-title REPORT OF THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE BY BARRETT H. CLARK Secretary (verso blank); 15-27 text of the Report (verso blank); (29) fly-title "MORALS, NOT ART OR LITERATURE"*By EDWARD HALE BIERSTADT (verso blank); 31-35 text of article (verso blank); 37-39 THE SIGNERS OF THE PROTEST (verso blank); 41-55 LETTERS TO THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE (verso blank); 57-59 LETTERS TO THE PUBLISHERS (verso blank); (61) fly-title ECHOES FROM THE PRESS (verso blank); 63-68 texts of "The Judging of Jurgen" by James Branch Cabell, '"The Rainbow" and "Jurgen"' by Gilbert Cannan, "Is Any Book Safe?" from the Editorial Page of the New York Times, "Lift Literary Load off Police" from the New York Evening Sun; (69) fly-title APPENDICES (verso blank); 71-72 APPENDIX A: The Laws; 73-77 APPENDIX B: text of booklet "Morals Not Art" (verso blank); one blank leaf.
Binding:
Three-quarter khaki cloth over pale buff paper boards. Paper label on spine: (all enclosed in single rule) JURGEN | AND | THE | CENSOR | Signed Copy | 1920 (see image above).
Dedication:
None.
Limitation:
Copy No. 15: FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT COPIES | OF JURGEN AND THE CENSOR HAVE | BEEN PRINTED AND NUMBERED, OF | WHICH FOUR HUNDRED AND | FORTY ARE FOR SALE. THIS | IS COPY NUMBER | [stamped in blue over a dotted line] 15 | [signed "James Branch Cabell" in black] (see image above).
Copy No. 1: FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT COPIES | OF JURGEN AND THE CENSOR HAVE | BEEN PRINTED AND NUMBERED, OF | WHICH FOUR HUNDRED AND | FORTY ARE FOR SALE. THIS | IS COPY NUMBER | [stamped in blue over a dotted line] 1 | [signed "James Branch Cabell" in black] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Endpapers are the same pale buff paper used on the boards.
The front endpapers of Mr. Cabell's copy are profusely annotated:
Front Pastedown: Bookplate of James Branch Cabell
Front Free Endpaper: [upper right, in Mr. Cabell's hand] Property of | James Branch Cabell | [tipped in aln signed, left center] To James Branch Cabell | this copy of "Jurgen and the Censor", | with the hearty thanks of its | Editors for his permission to | create a cause célèbre out of | what should have normally | remained merely a thing of beauty! | [signed] Edward Hale Bierstadt | Dec. 10th 1920 | [rule] | n the hope that the cause célèbre | may soon be a cause gagnée. | Cordially yours, | [signed] Barrett H. Clark | [center right, lettered vertically up] Countersigned - | [at left] Dumbarton Grange | Feb. 23rd 1921 [at right, signature] Edward Hale Bierstadt.
Dust jacket:
None seen.
Notes:
Copies numbered 1-50 (of a printing of 458) were printed on large paper and signed by Cabell. As Hall mentions, the paper size is unusual, as these copies are the same height as the regular issue, but wider. Another difference between the two issues is the color of the boards. The large paper copies were bound in a pale buff paper, while the regular copies were bound in a much darker greyish tan.
Copy No. 1 is from Mr. Cabell's library, and is housed in the Cabell Room in the James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University. Scans by Ray Bonis.
