Cabell's Contributions to Books
THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE, by Anatole France
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A7 |
First Modern Library Printing 1923 |
Introduction |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto Type B: [all enclosed in a double rule] THE | QUEEN PEDAUQUE [rule] ANATOLE FRANCE | Translated by Jos. A. V. Stritzko [rule] Introduction by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL [rule] "BL" device [rule] BONI AND LIVERIGHT [rule] PUBLISHERS [device of two triangles of dots] NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1923 | BY BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC. [rule] First Printing | Printed in the United States of America (see image above).
Publication:
This copy includes a catalog listing 80 outdented entries. The first page of this catalog (see image above) lists 20 outdented entries beginning with A MODERN BOOK OF CRITICISMS (81) and ending with DAUDET, ALPHONSE (1840-1897) | Sapho (85).
However, the copy examined here has been inscribed on on the half title by James Branch Cabell to George T. Keating, and the inscription is dated 5 March 1923. The copy privately bound by Vincent Starrett, listed in this bibliography as *A7-Special, is noted by Starrett as sheets of the first issue and includes the same 80 entry catalog. Our conclusion is that this printing inclusive of the 80 entry catalog is the first printing.
Collation:
Sextodecimo [16.8 cm. (6 5/8 in.) x 10.8 cm. (4 ΒΌ in.)]; (i) half-title; (ii) advertisement; (iii) title; (iv) copyright; [v], vi CONTENTS; [vii]-xii INTRODUCTION; [xviii] THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE, [xiv] blank; 1-253 text; [254-258] catalogue.
Binding:
Toledano Binding Style 2. Flexible leatherette in orange-tan. This binding is also known in black, brown, red, green, and blue, so other colors are possible. All edges trimmed. Spine all in gilt: [Double rule] | THE |QUEEN | PEDAUQUE [Rule] | ANATOL (sic)| FRANCE | MODERN | LIBRARY | [Double rule]. Front in gilt: "BL" device. (see image above).
Endpapers:
Brodzky design endpapers, as used in Modern Library titles 1919-1925 (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Style DJ-B dust jacket, cream paper with red bands, with style b4 rear panel, as used 1922-26. There is no catalog on the inside of the jacket.
Spine: [within upper red band] | THE QUEEN | PEDAUQUE | ANATOLE FRANCE | [below red band] LIMP | CROFTLEATHER | [vertically in two lines] THE QUEEN | PEDAUQUE | [ML device] | 110 | [within lower red band] NINETY-FIVE | CENTS | Net.
Front Panel: [within upper red band] | The Queen Pedauque [rule} ANATOLE FRANCE | INTRODUCTION BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [below red band] Fourteen lines of text | [within lower red band] The Modern Library
Rear Panel: [within upper red band] | All Modern Library Books are Hand Bound [rule] Descriptive Catalogues can be obtained from your dealer or the publishers | Limp Binding, Stained Tops, Gold Decorations | [below red band] two columns of title listings beginning with Maurice Maeterlinck | A Miracle of St. Anthony ... (11) and ending with Yeats, W.B. | Irish Fairy & Folk Tales (44) | [within lower red band] People Are Judged By The Books They Read
Front Flap: [within upper red band] | THE | MODERN LIBRARY | [below red band] single column of title listings beginning with A Modern Book of Criticisms (81) and ending with Flaubert. Madam Bovary (28) | The Temptation of St. Anthony |(92) | [within lower red band] A new title added monthly
Rear Flap: [within upper red band] | THE | MODERN LIBRARY | [below red band] single column of title listings beginning with France, Anatole | At the Sign ... The Red Lily (7) and ending with Macy, John | The Spirit of American Litera- | ture (56) | [within lower red band] BONI & LIVERIGHT, Inc. | 105 WEST 40th ST. NEW YORK
For an explanation of the terms used on this page that are specific to The Modern Library, see the Cabell in The Modern Library page.
