James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK: A Comedy of Limitations

Hall Code
Description
*Riv-C1b (E)
Third English Printing, Third State 1924

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: 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 labours day by day, and with | augmenting strokes." | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLET HEAD LIMITED (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] First Published in 1924 | Made and Printed in Great Britain. R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay. (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1924

Collation:

Crown octavo [19.5 cm. (7 11/16 in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)]; Pp. 368; (1) half-title; (2) BY THE SAME AUTHOR; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7) CONTENTS (verso blank); (9) quotation (verso blank); (11) fly-title; (12) quotation; 13-368 text. Pages (11), (45), (79), (115), (163), (191), (241), (273), (319), and (353) are fly-titles. Pages (6), (8), (10), (78), (114), (240), (272) and are blank.

Binding:

Red-brown cloth, yellow lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine:[triple decorated rule on yellow field] THE RIVET | IN | GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | JAMES | BRANCH |CABELL | [triple decorated rule on yellow field]. Front cover: [all within triple decorated ruled boxes on yellow field] THE RIVET IN | GRANDFATHER'S NECK | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL | [14 line dedicatory verse in two stanzas] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen.