Full Title:

Title page recto: [in italic] THE | EAGLE'S SHADOW | A Comedy of Purse-Strings | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | EDWIN BJÖRKMAN | [rule] | {in italic] "Ad hanc, inquam, aquilœ umbram illico pavitat | omne vulgus, contrahit sese senatus, observit | nobilitas, obsecundant judices, silent theologici | assentatur juris consulti, cedent leges, cedunt | instituta." | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK : : : : : : 1924 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1904, by | DOUBLEDAY PAGE & Co. | Copyright, 1923, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [in italic] Second Printing | March 1924 | Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] | Revised Edition Published, 1923 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924.

Collation:

Crown octavo [ cm. ( in.) x cm. ( in.)]; xl + 280 pp.; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; (ix) fly-title AN INTRODUCTION (verso blank); xi-xl introduction; (i) fly-title (verso blank); 3-250 text; (251) fly-title AN APPENDIX: ABOUT MORALS (verso blank); 253-250 appendix.

Binding:

Kalki binding: red brick cloth; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Decorations on front cover and spine in gilt. Spine: THE | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | MARTHA LOUISE PATTESON BRANCH | [in italic] In trust that the enterprise may be judged | less by the merits of its factor | than by those of its patron.

Notes:

The revised edition includes a number of minor revisions intended to tie this early novel to the Biography. For example, in the original 1904 edition, Cock-eye Flinks arrives (p. 199) purely deus ex machina, as Cabell explains, to menace Margaret and severely injure Billy. In the revised version (p. 195), we learn that Flinks' encursion is at the direction of "Orven Deal," who is secretly directing affairs in the background.