Full Title:

Title page recto Type G (used 1926-1939): [all enclosed in a double rule] THE | QUEEN PEDAUQUE [rule] ANATOLE FRANCE [rule] Translated by JOS. A. V. STRITZKO [rule] Introduction by JAMES BRANCH CABELL [rule] Bernhart torchbearer device [rule] THE MODERN LIBRARY :| PUBLISHERS: NEW YORK (see image above).

Title page verso: [in italic] Books by Anatole France | in THE MODERN LIBRARY | [double rule] | THE RED LILY No. 7 | THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD No. 22 | THAIS No. 67 | THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE No. 110 | [double rule] | [in italic] Manufactured in the United States of America | Bound for THE MODERN LIBRARY by H. Wolff (see image above).

Publication:

New York; no date. Catalog at rear, printed contiguously with the text, can be dated to Fall 1930 (catalog includes Faust, by Goethe, but not Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad) (see images above).

Collation:

Sextodecimo [16.8 cm. (6 5/8 in.) x 10.8 cm. (4 ¼ in.)]; (i) half-title; (ii) advertisement; (iii) title; (iv) list of books bt France; [v]- vi CONTENTS; [vii]-xii INTRODUCTION; [xviii] THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE, [xiv] blank; 1-253 text; [254] blank; [255-258] catalog.

Binding:

Toledano/Kamins binding Style 5_2. Balloon cloth in green. This binding has been reported in red, brown, green, and blue for other titles, so other colors are possible. Spine all in gilt: THE | QUEEN | PEDAUQUE| [Rule] | FRANCE | Grapevine device | MODERN | LIBRARY. Front in blind: Kent Torchbearer device. (see image above).

A Style 5₁ binding has the Kent Torchbearer device on the front cover in gilt, while on a Style 5₂ binding the front device is blind stamped.

Endpapers:

Rockwell Kent design endpapers, as used in Modern Library titles 1929 - Spring 1967 (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.