James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THESE RESTLESS HEADS: A Trilogy of Romantics
Hall Code |
Description |
TRH-A1 |
First Printing 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all within art deco border by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer] THESE | RESTLESS HEADS | [in italic] A Trilogy of Romantics | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] " Yet must there hover in these restless heads | One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, | Which into words no virtue can digest." | DECORATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS | SAMUEL BERNARD SCHAEFFER | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK : MCMXXXII (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] First Published, February, 1932 (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., February, 1932;
Collation:
Medium octavo [23.8 cm. (9⅜ in.) x 16 cm. (6 5/16 in.)]; pp. xix+256; (i) half title (verso blank); (not counted in pagination) blank (verso) frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (not counted in pagination) limitation page (verso blank); (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-viii Contents; (ix) fly-title, (x) quotation from The Mikado; xi-xiv Introduction; (1) fly-title; (2) quotation from A Midsummer Night's Dream; 3-253 text (verso blank); (254) Bibliography (verso blank). Pages (1x), (1), (19), (83), (127), (187), and (231) are fly-titles. Pages (ii), (82), (126), (186), (254), (256) are blank.
Binding:
Half-bound, art. vellum spine and corners over silver paper. Silver lettering on spine, black decoration on front cover. all untrimmed and uncut. Spine: [decorative script] These | Restless | Heads | Cabell | McBride. Front cover: [Cabell coat of arms, drawn by Mr. Cabell, in black] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Black and white drawing, an art deco image of a young woman, done in ink by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer (see image above).
Limitation:
THE LARGE PAPER EDITION OF THESE | RESTLESS HEADS CONSISTS OF FOUR HUN- | DRED AND TEN SIGNED AND NUMBERED | COPIES, OF WHICH THREE HUNDRED AND | SEVENTY-THREE ARE FOR SALE | THIS IS COPY 287 [hand written in red] | [signed by the author] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | JOHN MACY | [14-line acrostic verse in three stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in an unmarked tissue dust jacket and a cardboard slipcase covered in silver paper, with the Cabell family coat of arms on the front (see image above).
Notes:
The quotation on the title page is by Christopher Marlowe, from Tamburlaine the Great, Act 5, Scene 1; Tamburlaine, to Zenocrate, after he has ordered the four virgins to be put to death.
