James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE: A Comedy of Common Sense
Hall Code |
Description |
KCH-A1 |
First Printing 1938 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [bounded by rules in green on all four sides, extending to the edges of the sheet] THE KING WAS IN HIS | COUNTING HOUSE | [in italic] A Comedy of Common-Sense | by | BRANCH CABELL | [device in green] | ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES CHILD | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | [flush left] NEW YORK [flush right] TORONTO (see image above).
Title page verso: [publisher's device] | COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | BY J. J. LITTLE AND IVES AND COMPANY, NEW YORK | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.; 1938
Collation:
Crown octavo [21.3 cm. (8⅜ in.) x 13.3 cm. (5¼ in.)]; all edges trimmed, tops stained orange; (i) half title; (ii) list of books by Mr. Cabell; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication page (verso blank); vii-xi Preface (verso blank); (xiii) Contents (verso blank); xv-xvi People of the Story; (3)-(301) text; each of the five parts headed by illustrated fly-titles on pp. (1); (45), (121), (195), and (243) (verso of each blank); (302) blank.
Binding:
Green cloth Spine in black: [rule] THE | KING WAS | IN HIS | COUNTING | HOUSE | [rule] | BRANCH | CABELL | FARRAR & RINEHART. Front and rear covers blank (see image above).
Dedication:
FOR | HAZEL RASCOE | 15 line acrostic poem (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Illustrated by Charles Child (see image above).
Front panel: [tan background] [white rule] | The King Was In His | [text in red outlined in black] COUNTING HOUSE | [in decorative script] A novel by | BRANCH CABELL | [white rule] | [bounded on left and right by right rules] | illustrated panel by Child | [white rule]
Spine: [tan background] [white rule] | The King | Was In His | [text in red outlined in black] COUNTING HOUSE | [white rule] | BRANCH | CABELL | FARRAR & | RINEHART | [white rule]
Rear panel: [double rule in red] | IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS | [listing of seven new books issued by Farrar & Rinehart] | [double rule in red] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | [flush left] New York [flush right] Toronto
Front Flap: Net $2.50 | [double rule in red] | THE KING WAS | IN HIS | COUNTING HOUSE | A Comedy of Common-Sense | [in italic] by | BRANCH CABELL | With illustrations by | CHARLES CHILD | 18 line blurb in two paragraphs | [in italic] (Continued on back flap) | [double rule in red] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | [flush left] New York [flush right] Toronto
Rear flap: [double rule in red] | [in italic] (Continued from front flap) | 33 line continuation of blurb in two paragraphs | [double rule in red] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | [flush left] New York [flush right] Toronto
Notes:
The review slip shown above was found in a copy stamped "COMPLIMENTARY" on the bottom of the pages.
The dye used on the binding cloth seems to have been particularly ephemeral. We have yet to see a copy in this binding that has not faded at least somewhat.
