Bibliographies of Works by James Branch Cabell

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES BRANCH
CABELL: A REVISED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by I.R. Brussel

Hall Code
Description
F3 (A21a)
First Printing, Large Paper Issue 1932

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: A Bibliography | of the Writings of | [in green] James Branch Cabell | [in black] A Revised Bibliography | By | I. R. Brussel | [centaur device in green] | PHILADELPHIA | [in green] THE CENTAUR BOOKSHOP | [in black] 1932 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT 1932 BY | THE CENTAUR BOOK SHOP (see image above).

Publication:

Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1932

Collation:

Small royal octavo [23.8 cm. (9⅜ in.) x 16.2 cm. (6⅜ in.)]; ii + 132 pp.; two blank leaves not counted in collation; (i) half title (verso blank); (1)-(2) CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE WORKS OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL; (3) blank; (4) frontispiece; (5) title page; (6) publication data; limitation not counted in collation; (7) dedication (verso blank); (9)-10 CONTENTS; (11) introduction by Mr. Cabell; (17) fly-title COMPILER'S NOTE (verso blank); (19)-20 text of note; (21) fly-title COLLATIONS (verso blank); (23)-90 text of Collations; (91) fly-title CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS (verso blank); (93)-96 text of CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS; (97) fly-title CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS (verso blank); (99)-106 text of CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS; (107) fly-title STUDIES AND REVIEWS OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL (verso blank); (109)-114 text of I. IN BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS; (115) fly-title STUDIES AND REVIEWS OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL (verso blank); (117)-126 text of II. IN PERIODICALS; (127) fly-title APPENDIX (verso blank); (129) reproduction of the first page of the pirate edition of The Taboo in Literature; (130) reproduction of the title page of Poor Jack; (131) reproduction of a letter from Mr. Cabell about Poor Jack; (132) reproduction of the title page of the pirate edition of Jurgen; one blank leaf not counted in collation. Pages (17), (21), (91), (97), (107), (115), and (127) are fly-titles. Pages (ii), (3), (8), (18), (22), (92), (98), (108), (116), and (128) are blank.

Binding:

Quarter bound, Green cloth spine with silver paper boards; white paper label on spine, front cover blank; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [decorated rule in green] | [in black] JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in green italic] A Revised Bibliog- | raphy | [in black] I. R. | BRUSSEL | [decorated rule in green] (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Photograph of Mr. Cabell, protected by unmarked tissue guard (see image above).

Dedication:

DEDICATED TO | L. B. | AND | A. F. G. | [in italic] Where much more is due. (see image above)

Limitation:

THIS IS NUMBER [handwritten over underline] 2 OF THE LARGE | PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO ONE HUN- | DRED COPIES NINETY OF WHICH ARE FOR | SALE | [signed by Mr. Cabell ] | [signed by the author] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Unmarked herringbone patterned glassine (see image above).

Notes:

This bibliography revises and updates Guy Holt's 1924 Centaur bibliography. This is the first of Mr. Cabell's bibliographies to include the complete Biography of the Life of Manuel.