Bibliographies of Works by James Branch Cabell
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF
JAMES BRANCH CABELL, by Guy Holt
Hall Code |
Description |
F2 (A9a) |
First Printing, Large Paper Issue 1924 |
COMPILATION
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:
Medium octavo [23.8 cm. (9⅜ in.) x 16.2 cm. (6⅜ in.)]; viii + 86 pp.; (i)-(iv) two blank leaves; (v) half-title; (vi) BOOKS By MR. CABELL; (vii) blank; (viii) frontispiece; (1) title page; (2) publication data; (3) limitation page (verso blank); (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) colophon; (75)-(82) blank pages, each headed by "FUTURE COLLATIONS"; (83)-(86) two blank leaves.
Binding:
Quarter bound in Japanese flower patterned paper boards with red-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, all enclosed in a triple ruled box] [in italic] The Centaur Bibliographies [in italic] of | [rule] |James Branch Cabell | By | Guy Holt | [rule] |Modern American Authors (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Photograph of Mr. Cabell protected by unmarked tissue guard (see image above).
Limitation:
THIS LARGE PAPER EDITION IS LIMITED | TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES NINETY OF | WHICH ARE FOR SALE THIS IS NUMBER [handwritten in red over underline] 60 | [signed by Mr. Cabell ] | [signed by the author] (see image above).
Colophon:
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).
Dust jacket:
We have examined several copies of this edition, two of which were in dust jacket. In both cases, the jackets were unmarked glassine embossed in a splendid art deco spiderweb pattern (see image above).
Does anyone make an equivalent material today?
Notes:
A comment with no bibliographic value whatsoever: In the opinion of this writer (Thorne), this slim volume is the prettiest book in the entire Cabell canon.
