James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

SPECIAL DELIVERY: A Packet of Replies

Hall Code
Description
SD-A1
First Printing 1933

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: SPECIAL DELIVERY | [rule] | A PACKET OF REPLIES | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [device of three stars] | [in italic] "Heaven send thee a good delivery!" | [device of three stars] | NEW YORK : MCMXXXIII | [rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1933 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | * | [in italic] SPECIAL DELIVERY | * | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [in italic] FIRST PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1933 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1933

Collation:

Crown octavo [20.6 cm. (8⅛ in.) x 14.6 cm. (5¾ in.)]; x + 274 + 1 blank leaf; (i) half-title; (ii) BY BRANCH CABELL | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication page (verso blank); (vii) CONTENTS (verso blank); (ix) opening statement by the author (verso blank); (1) fly-title; (2) quotation; 3-270 text (verso blank); 271-272 Bibliographical; last leaf blank. Pages (1), (16), (43), (67), (93), (117), (141), (165), (187), (213), (237), and (261) are fly-titles. The ten letters are on pages (17), (45), (69), (95), (119), (143), (167), (189), (215), and (239). Pages (14), (17), (18), (42), (44), (46), (66), (68), (70), (92), (94), (96), (118), (120), (142), (144), (164), (166), (168), (186), (188), (190), (214), (216), (236), (238), (240), (260), and (271) are blank.

Binding:

Black cloth, silver lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: * | SPECIAL | DELIVERY | * * | BRANCH | CABELL | * | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).

Dedication:

For | GEORGE T. KEATING | [14-line acrostic verse in three stanzas] (see image above).

Dust jacket:

White paper; lettering in black and white, decorations in silver, black, and white (see image above).

Spine: Black field, lettering in white: [in decorative script] SPECIAL DELIVERY | Branch Cabell | [decoration of a horse in black on a silver ground] | [in decorative script] Special Delivery | Branch Cabell | [decoration of a horse in black on a silver ground] | [in decorative script] Special Delivery | Branch Cabell | [decoration of a horse in black on a silver ground] | [in decorative script] Special Delivery | Branch Cabell | [in black decorative script on a silver ground] McBride

Front panel: Black field, [decorations in white and silver by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer, signed at lower right] [black italic on white field] SPECIAL DELIVERY | Branch Cabell

Rear panel: NEW McBRIDE PUBLICATIONS [zigzag rule] | [blurbs for three titles published by McBride] | [zigzag rule]

Front flap: [flush right] Net $2.50 | [rule] [at right] [phot of Mr. Cabell] [at left] SPECIAL | DELIVERY | A Packet of Replies | By BRANCH CABELL | [full column] 16-line blurb] | [in italic] Available also in two Limited Signed Large | Paper Editions | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 4 West Sixteenth Street, New York, N. Y.

Rear flap: [rule] | [advertisement for Travel Magazine] | [rule] | [rule] | [coupon for Book News]