Full Title:

Title page recto: A Bibliography | of the Writings of | [in brown] James Branch Cabell | [in black] By | Guy Holt | [centaur device in brown] | PHILADELPHIA | [in brown] THE CENTAUR BOOKSHOP | [in black] 1924 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT 1924 BY | THE CENTAUR BOOK SHOP (see image above).

Publication:

Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1924

Collation:

Large duodecimo [19.7 cm. (7¾ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; vi + 82 pp.; (i)-(iv) two blank leaves; (v) half-title; (vi) BOOKS By MR. CABELL; (1) blank; (2) frontispiece; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5)-9 Introduction by Mr. Cabell (verso blank); (11)-14 Preface; (15)-55 text of bibliography; (56)-57 CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS; (58)-65 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS; (66)-70 SOME CRITICISM IN PERIODICALS; (71)-73 SOME CRITICISM IN BOOKS; (74) limitation page; (75)-(82) blank pages, each headed by "FUTURE COLLATIONS".

Binding:

Quarter bound in brown paper boards with brown cloth spine; white paper labels on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [white paper label lettered up the spine in black] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL. Front cover: [white paper label lettered in black and brown, all enclosed in a triple ruled black box] [in black] [in italic] The Centaur Bibliographies [in italic] of | [rule] | [in brown] James Branch Cabell | By | Guy Holt | [rule] | [in black] Modern American Authors (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Photograph of Mr. Cabell, with his facsimile signature as a subscript; protected by unmarked tissue guard (see image above).

Limitation:

THIS IS NUMBER [handwritten over printed underline] 121 OF FIVE HUNDRED | NUMBERED COPIES | THE THIRD OF THE CENTAUR BIBLIOGRA- | PHIES DONE BY THE BOOKFELLOWS AT | THE TORCH PRESS, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, | PUBLISHED BY THE CENTAUR BOOKSHOP, | PHILADELPHIA | Uniform with this Volume | Joseph Hergesheimer | Stephen Crane (see image above).

Notes:

This was the first detailed bibliography of Mr. Cabell, following Merle Johnson's brief check-list (F1, 1921). Guy Holt was Mr. Cabell's editor at McBride, and had worked closely with him on every one of his publications since 1915. As such, he had access to publication information on the McBride titles, which lends a measure of credence to his statements of numbers published, etc. We have shown, however, that even so, he was not always infallible.