The Silver Stallion

Cabell's Contributions to Books

JURGEN AND THE CENSOR,
Privately Printed by the Emergency Committee

Hall Code
Description
Cabell Contribution(s)
A4a (E2)
First Printing 1920
Preface | The Judging of Jurgen

IMAGES

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in red] JURGEN | AND THE CENSOR | [in black] REPORT OF THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE | ORGANIZED TO PROTEST AGAINST THE | SUPPRESSION OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL'S | JURGEN | [rule] | PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE | EDWARD HALE BIERSTADT BARRETT H. CLARK SIDNEY HOWARD | [rule] | [in italic] ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY | NEW YORK (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY | BARRETT H. CLARK (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Privately printed for Barrett H. Clark, 1920

Collation:

Medium octavo; [24.1 cm. (9½ in.) x 15.9 cm. (6¼ in.)]; top edge trimmed and stained black, else untrimmed; pp. 78 + 1 blank leaf; (1) blank; (2) limitation; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) contents (verso blank); 7-(9) Preface by James Branch Cabell, 10-11 Letter from the Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice to the Secretary of the Emergency Committee (verso blank); (13) fly-title REPORT OF THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE BY BARRETT H. CLARK Secretary (verso blank); 15-27 text of the Report (verso blank); (29) fly-title "MORALS, NOT ART OR LITERATURE"*By EDWARD HALE BIERSTADT (verso blank); 31-35 text of article (verso blank); 37-39 THE SIGNERS OF THE PROTEST (verso blank); 41-55 LETTERS TO THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE (verso blank); 57-59 LETTERS TO THE PUBLISHERS (verso blank); (61) fly-title ECHOES FROM THE PRESS (verso blank); 63-68 texts of "The Judging of Jurgen" by James Branch Cabell, '"The Rainbow" and "Jurgen"' by Gilbert Cannan, "Is Any Book Safe?" from the Editorial Page of the New York Times, "Lift Literary Load off Police" from the New York Evening Sun; (69) fly-title APPENDICES (verso blank); 71-72 APPENDIX A: The Laws; 73-77 APPENDIX B: text of booklet "Morals Not Art" (verso blank); one blank leaf.

Binding:

Three-quarter khaki cloth over dark greyish tan paper boards. Paper label on spine: (all enclosed in single rule) JURGEN | AND | THE | CENSOR | 1920 (see image above).

Dedication:

None.

Limitation:

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT COPIES | OF JURGEN AND THE CENSOR HAVE | BEEN PRINTED AND NUMBERED, OF | WHICH FOUR HUNDRED AND | FORTY ARE FOR SALE. THIS | IS COPY NUMBER | [stamped in blue over a dotted line] 232 (see image above).

Endpapers:

Endpapers are the same dark greyish tan paper used on the boards.

Dust jacket:

None seen.

Notes:

Copies numbered 51-458 (of a printing of 458) were printed on normal paper and unsigned. Another difference between the two states is the color of the boards. The large paper copies were bound in a pale buff paper, while the regular copies were bound in a much darker greyish tan.