James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SMIRT: An Urbane Nightmare
Hall Code |
Description |
SMT-A1a |
First Printing, Limited Edition 1934 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: SMIRT | An Urbane Nightmare | BY BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "He accepts that middle world in which men | take no side in great conflicts, and decide no | great causes, and make great refusals. He thus | sets for himself the limits within which art, | undisturbed by any moral ambition, does its | most sincere and surest work." | NEW YORK : MCMXXXIV | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: SMIRT | COPYRIGHT, 1934 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES | OF AMERICA | FIRST EDITION, MARCH, 1934 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1934
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.5 cm. (8 1/16 in.) x 14.6 cm. (5¾ in.)]; xxii + 310 + 2 blank leaves. (i) half-title; (ii) by Branch Cabell (list of books); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (not counted in pagination) limitation leaf; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-xvii Author's Note (verso blank); xix-xxi Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title, PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-309 (verso blank); 2 blank leaves. Pages (1), (45), (95), (123), (155), (201), (237), and (271) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Silver cloth, black lettering and decorations on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: * | SMIRT | * * | BRANCH | CABELL | * | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right] (see image above).
Limitation:
OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SMIRT 153 COPIES | (OF WHICH 120 ARE FOR SALE) HAVE BEEN | NUMBERED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THIS | IS COPY NUMBER [handwritten in red] 96 | [author's signature] (see image above).
Dedication:
For | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN | [16-line acrostic verse in four stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in unmarked issue dust jacket (not shown) and cardboard slipcase covered in silver paper, Cabell family coat of arms on front panel (see image above).
