James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

GALLANTRY; Dizain des Fêtes Galantes

Hall Code
Description
Gal-B2 (K)
Revised Edition, Second Printing 1924

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title recto: [in italic] Gallantry | Dizain des Fêtes Galantes | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | LOUIS UNTERMEYER | [rule] | [in italic] "Half in maquerade, playing the drawing-room or | garden comedy of life, these persons have upon them, | not less than the landscape among the accidents of | which they group themselves with fittingness, a | certain light that we should seek for in vain upon | anything real." | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK - - - - - - - 1924 (see image above).

Title verso: Revised Edition, | Copyright 1922, by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Second Printing | March, 1924 | Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] | Published, June, 1922 (see image above).

Publication:

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

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; pp. xxii + 346; (i) half-title; (ii) [within a single ruled box] BOOKS by MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) Dedication (verso blank); v11-xii Introduction by Louis Untermeyer; (xiii) Contents (verso blank); xv-xix Epistle Dedicatory; (xx) blank; (xxi-xxii) Prologue; 1-342 text; (343-346) blank; (1), (37), (61), (89), (109), (137), (169), (245), (273), (301), and (331) are fly-titles; (2), (38), (62), (90), (110), (138), (170), (246), (274), (302), and (332) carry Dramatis Personæ for the stories they precede; (36), (60), (88), (168); (244), and (330) are blank.

Binding:

Red-brown cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on cover and spine. Spine: GALLANTRY | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE; Front cover: Kalki device at lower right (see image above).

Dedication:

[rule] | TO | JAMES ROBINSON BRANCH | THIS VOLUME, SINCE IT TREATS OF GALLANTRY, IS | DEDICATED, AS BOTH IN LIFE AND DEATH | AN EXPONENT OF THE WORD'S | HIGHEST MEANING | [in italic] "A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool | understand this . . . Shall the throne of iniquity | have a fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief | by a law?" | [rule] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen.