The Silver Stallion: Cabellian Arts
A Visit to James Branch Cabell
Hall Code |
Description |
G4 |
A Visit to James Branch Cabell 1927 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: A | VISIT | TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | BY | BERNHARDT WALL | ETCHER | LIME ROCK | [rule] | CONN | 1927 (see image above).
Title page verso: blank
Publication:
Lime Rock, Conn.: Bernhardt Wall, 1927.
Collation:
Copy No. 2: Thin octavo [25.1 cm. (9⅞ in.) x 21 cm. (8¼ in.)]; pp. (xxii), leaves printed on recto only, all versos blank; (i) blank leaf; (iii) limitation page; (v) title; (vii) frontispiece, with glassine cover sheet; (ix) contents; (xi) introduction; (xiii-xv) two etchings (of JBC's study and home); (xvii) Wall logo plate; (xix-xxi) 2 blank leaves.
Copy No. 4: Thin octavo [26.4 cm. (10⅜ in.) x 20.3 cm. (8 in.)]; pp. (xxii), leaves printed on recto only, all versos blank; (i) blank leaf; (iii) limitation page; (v) title; (vii) frontispiece, with glassine cover sheet; (ix) contents; (xi) introduction; (xiii-xv) two etchings (of JBC's study and home); (xvii) Wall logo plate; (xix-xxi) 2 blank leaves.
Copy No. 7: Thin octavo [28.6 cm. (11¼ in.) x 22.2 cm. (8¾ in.)]; pp. (xxvi), leaves printed on recto only, all versos blank; (i-iv) two blank leaves; (v) letter from James Branch Cabell to Bernhardt Wall, bound in; (vii) limitation page; (ix) title; (xi) frontispiece; (xiii) introduction; (xv) contents; (xvii-xix) two etchings (of JBC's study and home); (xxi) Wall logo plate; (xxiii-xxvi) 2 blank leaves.
Binding:
Copy No. 2: Blue pebbled cloth (Blanck Type P) with variegated blue paper center panel; lettered vertically up the spine in black; blue paper label lettered in black on front cover; top edges trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: A VISIT TO JAMES BRANCH CABELL. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] A VISIT TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule bordered by a single dot at each end] | WALL (see image above).
Copy No. 4: Blue pebbled cloth (Blanck Type P) spine with buff paper boards; white paper label lettered in black on front cover; top edges trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: A VISIT TO JAMES BRANCH CABELL. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] A VISIT TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule bordered by a single dot at each end] | WALL (see image above).
Copy No. 7: Brown pebbled cloth (Blanck Type P) with variegated buff paper center panel; buff paper label lettered in black on front cover; top edges trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: blank. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] A VISIT TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule bordered by a single dot at each end] | WALL (see image above).
Limitation:
Copy No. 2: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] COPY NO. 2 | [rule] | A VISIT TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule] | EDITION | 100 COPIES | [signature] Bernhardt Wall | ETCHER (see image above).
Copy No. 4: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] COPY NO. 4 | [rule] | A VISIT TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule] | EDITION | 100 COPIES | [signature] Bernhardt Wall | ETCHER. This copy inscribed by Mr. Wall to Mrs. James Branch Cabell on Jan. 20, 1928 (see image above).
Copy No. 7: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] COPY NO. 7 | [rule] | A VISIT TO | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [rule] | EDITION | 100 COPIES | [signature] Bernhardt Wall | ETCHER (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Portrait etching of James Branch Cabell (see image above), protected by an unprinted glassine cover sheet on copies nos. 2 & 4, no cover sheet on no. 7.
Letter:
Copy No. 7 (only) includes a bound in TLS from Mr. Cabell to Mr. Wall, dated May 13, 1921, agreeing to sit for an etching portrait. Presumably this is the same etching portrait used as the frontispiece.
Endpapers:
Copies No. 2 & 7: White endpapers
Copy No. 4: Blue mottled endpapers
Dust jacket:
Not seen. At least some of the regular edition of 100 copies were issued in dust jacket.
Notes:
We don't know how many different bindings Wall used for this book. In addition to the four shown here, we have seen reports of one copy (no. 51) in ¾ brown cloth over tan boards, one copy (no. 6) in orange paper boards, and one copy (no. 8) in maroon cloth with a yellow paper center panel. We would love to see other copies.
