Cabell's Contributions to Books: Reprints in Books

ELLEN GLASGOW, by Dorothea Lawrance Mann

Hall Code
Description
Cabell Contribution(s)
B8
Ellen Glasgow [1928]
The Last Cry of Romance

IMAGES

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: ELLEN GLASGOW | by | DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN | [in italic] with | critical essays and | a bibliography | [device] | 1928 | DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY NEW YORK (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1927 | DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY (see image above).

Publication:

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company; 1928

Collation:

Thin duodecimo stapled in wraps [19.3 cm. (7⅝-in.) x 12.4 cm. (5 1/16-in.)]. iv + 46 + 4 unpaginated full page illustrations, each signed "Lauren Stout"+ 1 blank leaf. (i) half-title, (ii) frontispiece, (iii) title page, (iv) publication data; 1-25 "Ellen Glasgow" by D. L. Mann; 4 full page illustrations; 26-31 "The Last Cry of Romance" by James Branch Cabell; 32-38 "Realism in a Southern Novel" by Joseph Collins; 39-42 "A Virginia Lady Dissects a Virginia Gentleman" by Carl Van Vechten; (43) fly-title; (44) illustration signed "Lankes"; (45-46) Bibliography; 1 blank leaf.

Wraps:

Yapp edged yellow paper wraps; purplish grey paper label on front cover printed in black; edges untrimmed. Front cover label: ELLEN GLASGOW | [device] | DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Pen and ink portrait of Ellen Glasgow. The portrait is signed with an "R" in a cartouche (see image above).

Note:

Mr. Cabell's contribution originally appeared in the May 6, 1925 issue of The Nation as "The Last Cry of Romance: A Review of Barren Ground, by Ellen Glasgow", Brewer No. 168.