James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
BEYOND LIFE: Dizain des Demiurges
Hall Code |
Description |
BL-C1a (E) |
First English Printing, Variant Binding 1925 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: BEYOND LIFE | [in italic] DIZAIN DES DEMIURGES | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "Many a man lives a burden to the earth: but a good | book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, | embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. (see image above).
Title page verso: FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1925 | [rule] | [in italic] Made and Printed in Great Britain by | M. F. Robinson & Co. at The Library Press Lowestoft (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925
Collation:
Crown octavo [18.9 cm. (7 7/16 in.) x 13 cm. (5⅛ in.)]; Pp. viii + 312 + (8). (i) half-title; (ii) BY THE SAME AUTHOR [list of books]; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii) Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title; (2) quotation; 3-312 text; (8-page John Lane catalog, pages unnumbered, inserted after p. 312). Pages (1), (19), (73), (109), (141), (177), (213), (243), and (281) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (viii) (18), (140), (176), and (212) are blank.
Binding:
Red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, front cover enclosed in a double blind ruled box, else blank; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: [two double rules] | BEYOND | LIFE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [two double rules] | THE BODLEY HEAD | [two double rules] (see image above).
Dedication:
To | GUY HOLT | [6 line acrostic verse] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Olive green paper, black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: BEYOND | LIFE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in italic] Author of | "Jurgen," etc. | 7/6 | NET | The | Bodley | Head
Front panel: BEYOND LIFE | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Author of "Jurgen," etc. | [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [5-line blurb] | SEVEN SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE NET
Rear panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [in italic] BOOKS BY JMAES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | [list of 6 titles, each with quotation from a review] | [rule] | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. | VIGO STREET, W.1
Front flap: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [Blurbs for books by J. B. Priestly and Vernon Lee] | [rule] | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.
Rear flap: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] [Blurb for The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford, ed. by R. Brimley Johnson] | [rule] | JOHN LANE | THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.
Notes:
Hall states that the two binding variants of this printing are identical except for the binding (p. 7). All of the copies we have examined in the red binding (BL-C1a (E), this page) have an 8-page John Lane catalog inserted after the text (see image above). This catalog is not contiguous with the text block. The copies we have seen in the blue binding (BL-C1 (E)) lack the catalog.
