James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK: A Comedy of Limitations
Hall Code |
Description |
Riv-B2 (E) |
Second English Printing 1916 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [cancel] THE RIVET | IN GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | A Comedy of Limitations | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "To this new South, who values her high | past, in chief, as fit foundation of that edifice | whereon she labors day by day, and with | augmenting strokes." | McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY LTD. | LONDON AND NEW YORK | 1916 (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Printed in the U. S. A. (see image above).
Publication:
London, 1916.
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7 ⅞ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; pp. 368 (first 12 un-numbered); (1) half title; (2) Books by Mr. Cabell; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) Dedication (verso blank); (7) Contents (verso blank); (9) Note (verso blank); (11) fly-title; (12) sonnet, Paul Verville, Nascitur (JBC); 13-368 text. Pages (1), (45), (79), (115), (163), (191), (241), (273), (319), and (353) are fly-titles; pages (78), (114), (240), and (272) are blank.
Binding:
Red-brown cloth; gilt lettering and decorations; all edges trimmed. Spine: THE RIVET | IN | GRAND- | FATHERS | NECK | [line] | CABELL | Mc BRIDE. Front cover: [completely enclosed in a gilt box] THE RIVET IN | GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | [device of stylized seated Chinese figure] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL | [14 line dedicatory verse in two stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Front panel: [all enclosed in a heavy line black box] [background of leaves and branches in grey and white] [in decorative italic] The Rivet in | Grandfather's | Neck | A Novel of the | Passing South | One of the Strangest and Most Sig-| nificant Books Ever Written by an | American. A Novel That Will Appeal | to All Who Want Human Values in | Their Reading. | [in decorative italic] James Branch Cabell
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double line box] 4 line quotation | [in italic] from Hans Andersen's "The Shepherdess and the Sweep." | 4 line quotation | [image of a pottery depiction of the sweep, the Chinese grandfather, and the shepherdess on a base incised 'THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK" | The Rivet in | Grandfather's Neck | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | 15 line blurb | [in italic] 12mo. $1.35 net. | [line] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Front flap: blank.
Rear flap: blank. (see image above).
Notes:
Second English edition, printed from imported sheets with cancel title page and dust jacket from the US first printing.
