Full Title:

Title page recto Type B: [all enclosed in a double rule] THE | QUEEN PEDAUQUE [rule] ANATOLE FRANCE | Translated by Jos. 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 87 outdented entries. The first page of this catalog (see image above) lists 21 outdented entries beginning with A MODERN BOOK OF CRITICISMS (81) and ending with DAVIDSON, JOHN | Poems (60).

Collation:

Sextodecimo [16.8 cm. (6 5/8 in.) x 10.8 cm. (4 ¼ in.)]; (i) half-title; (ii) advertisement; (iii) title; (iv) copyright; [v], vi CONTENTS; [vii]-xii INTRODUCTION; [xiii] THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE, [xiv] blank; 1-253 text; [254-258] catalogue.

Binding:

Toledano Binding Style 2. Flexible leatherette in green. This binding is also known in black, brown, orange-tan, or 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).

Notes:

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.