James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

JURGEN: A Comedy of Justice

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Jur-G2 (w)
Second Printing, English Penguin Press Paperback Edition 1940

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Ttle page recto: JURGEN | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [penguin device] | ALLEN LANE | PENGUIN BOOKS | HARMONDSWORTH MIDDLESEX ENGLAND | 41 EAST 28TH STREET NEW YORK U.S.A. (see image above).

Title page verso: First published 1921 | Published in Penguin Books June 1940 | Reprinted August 1940 | MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED, | BY RICHARD CLAY AND COMPANY, LTD., BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. (see image above).

Publication:

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books Ltd., August 1940

Collation:

Trade paperback [17.8 cm. (7 in.) x 11.1 cm. (4⅜ in.)]. Pp. 248 + 8 pp. of advertisements; (i) half-title, with quotation from Introduction and Publisher's Note; (ii) photo of Mr. Cabell followed by 14-line biography; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v0 dedication (verso blank); (vi) three quotations (attributed to Philip Borsdale, E. Noel Codman, and John Frederick Lewistam, verso blank); (vii)ix-viii) Contents; ix-x Introduction by Hugh Walpole; xi-xii Contents; xiii-xiv A Foreword; 15-247 text (verso blank); 8 pp. of advertisements.

Wraps:

Red paper, white band on front panel, lettering in black and red (see image above).

Spine: [lettered up the spine in black] JURGEN JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [at base of spine] [penguin device] | 268

Front panel: [centered in top red panel, lettered in black, inside single line cloud black border on white ground] PENGUIN | BOOKS | [in black, centered in center white panel] JURGEN | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [framing center white panel on both sides, lettered in red, lettered up at left and down at right] FICTION FICTION | [in bottom red panel, in black] COMPLETE [penguin device] UNABRIDGED

Rear panel: [in black, all on white ground] [advertisement for Pears Soap]

Dedication:

To | BURTON RASCOE | [dedication in acrostic verse of three quatrains] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

None seen. However, Penguin Press editions were issued with dust jackets until 1942 (when wartime restrictions on paper caused them to be eliminated), so we assume one existed.