Bibliographies of Works by James Branch Cabell

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF
JAMES BRANCH CABELL, by Guy Holt

Hall Code
Description
F2 (A9a)
First Printing, Large Paper Issue 1924

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: A Bibliography | of the Writings of | [in brown] James Branch Cabell | [in black] By | Guy Holt | [centaur device in brown] | PHILADELPHIA | [in brown] THE CENTAUR BOOKSHOP | [in black] 1924 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT 1924 BY | THE CENTAUR BOOK SHOP (see image above).

Publication:

Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1924

Collation:

Medium octavo [23.8 cm. (9⅜ in.) x 16.2 cm. (6⅜ in.)]; viii + 86 pp.; (i)-(iv) two blank leaves; (v) half-title; (vi) BOOKS By MR. CABELL; (vii) blank; (viii) frontispiece; (1) title page; (2) publication data; (3) limitation page (verso blank); (5)-9 Introduction by Mr. Cabell (verso blank); (11)-14 Preface; (15)-55 text of bibliography; (56)-57 CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS; (58)-65 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS; (66)-70 SOME CRITICISM IN PERIODICALS; (71)-73 SOME CRITICISM IN BOOKS; (74) colophon; (75)-(82) blank pages, each headed by "FUTURE COLLATIONS"; (83)-(86) two blank leaves.

Binding:

Quarter bound in Japanese flower patterned paper boards with red-brown cloth spine; white paper labels on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [white paper label lettered up the spine in black] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL. Front cover: [white paper label lettered in black, all enclosed in a triple ruled box] [in italic] The Centaur Bibliographies [in italic] of | [rule] |James Branch Cabell | By | Guy Holt | [rule] |Modern American Authors (see image above).

Frontispiece:

Photograph of Mr. Cabell protected by unmarked tissue guard (see image above).

Limitation:

THIS LARGE PAPER EDITION IS LIMITED | TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES NINETY OF | WHICH ARE FOR SALE THIS IS NUMBER [handwritten in red over underline] 60 | [signed by Mr. Cabell ] | [signed by the author] (see image above).

Colophon:

THE THIRD OF THE CENTAUR BIBLIOGRA- | PHIES DONE BY THE BOOKFELLOWS AT | THE TORCH PRESS, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, | PUBLISHED BY THE CENTAUR BOOKSHOP, | PHILADELPHIA | Uniform with this Volume | Joseph Hergesheimer | Stephen Crane (see image above).

Dust jacket:

We have examined several copies of this edition, two of which were in dust jacket. In both cases, the jackets were unmarked glassine embossed in a splendid art deco spiderweb pattern (see image above).

Does anyone make an equivalent material today?

Notes:

A comment with no bibliographic value whatsoever: In the opinion of this writer (Thorne), this slim volume is the prettiest book in the entire Cabell canon.