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).

Publication:

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1923 | BY BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC. [rule] First Printing | Printed in the United States of America (see image above).

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).

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; [xviii] THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE, [xiv] blank; 1-253 text; [254-258] catalogue.

Binding:

Grey cloth, black leather label with gilt lettering on spine, front cover blank. [double rule] THE | QUEEN | PEDAUQUE [double rule] (see image above). Top edges trimmed, else untrimmed and unopened.

Endpapers:

Horizontal rough rules in two shades of grey. Brodzky endpapers bound in as well. (see images above).

Notes:

A bibliographic curiosity only, this should not to be considered a genuine issue of this book, since it was privately bound. It is is of interest, though, because it confirms the first issue of the first printing as our A7, and as such is worth mentioning here.

The note in Starrett's hand on the sheet opposite the half title reads:

Unique. One copy wholly
uncut, given to me in sheets,
at my request, by
Horace Liveright. First
issue of this edition.

Vincent Starrett

2 Dec. 1923
(date of binding)

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.