Full Title:

Title page recto Type G (used 1926-39): [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. This printing does not contain a catalog following the text. Based on the styles of the binding and titel page (and the date of the previous printing), it probably dates between 1931 and 1939.

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 by France; [v]- vi CONTENTS; [vii]-xii INTRODUCTION; [xviii] THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE, [xiv] blank; 1-253 text; [254-255] blank leaf.

Binding:

Toledano Binding Style 7. Flexible balloon cloth in red. This binding has also been reported in brown, green, or blue, so other colors are likely. All edges trimmed. Spine all in gilt: THE |QUEEN | PEDAUQUE [Rule] | FRANCE | ML device | MODERN | LIBRARY. Front in gilt: Bernhart torchbearer device. (see image above).

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.