James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
BEYOND LIFE: Dizain des Demiurges
SS Code |
Hall Code |
Hall Description |
Silver Stallion Description |
*BL-B7 (ML) |
BL-B3 (ML) |
Third Modern Library Edition |
Seventh Modern Library Printing [Fall 1930] |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto type "F": [All enclosed in a double rule] BEYOND LIFE | [in italic] Dizain des Démiurges | [ a line] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [ a line] | Introduction by | GUY HOLT| [ a line] | Bernhard Torchbearer device | [4 lines 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" | [ a line] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | [ a line] | PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: [in italic] Manufactured in the United States of America | Bound for THE MODERN LIBRARY [in italic] by H. Wolff (see image above).
Publication:
New York. No date, but catalog at rear, printed contiguously with the text, can be dated to Fall 1930 (includes Faust, by Goethe, but not Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad) (see images above).
Collation:
Sextodecimo [16.8 cm. (6 5/8-inches) x 10.8 cm. (4 1/4-inches)]. [i] half-title; [ii] advt; [iii] title; [iv] printer's notice (no copyright data); [v] dedication; [vi] blank; [vii] Contents; [viii] blank; [ix-xix] Introduction; [xx] blank; [1] I | WE APPROACH; [2] 13 line passage; 3-358 text; [359-362] catalog.
Binding:
Toledano/Kamins binding Style 52. Balloon cloth in green. This binding has been reported in red, brown, green, and blue for other titles, so other colors are possible. Spine all in gilt: BEYOND | LIFE | [Rule] | CABELL | Grapevine device | MODERN | LIBRARY. Front in blind: Kent Torchbearer device. (see image above).
A Style 51 binding has the Kent Torchbearer device on the front cover in gilt, while on a Style 52binding the front device is blind stamped.
Dedication:
[double rule] To | GUY HOLT | [acrostic verse of seven lines] | [double rule] (see image above).
Endpapers:
Kent design endpapers as used on Modern Library titles 1929-1967 (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Style DJ-G dust jacket, white paper with red bands, with style e rear panel. This jacket can be dated to Fall 1933 by the catalog on the inside (includes Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein, but not God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell).
Dust Jacket Outside:
Spine: [wide red band] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [narrow red band] | [vertically down spine] BEYOND LIFE | Bernhard Torchbearer device | [narrow red band] | 25 | [wide red band].
Front Panel: [wide red band] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [narrow red band] | BEYOND LIFE | Bernhard Torchbearer device | Introduction by Guy Holt | 8 lines text | [narrow red band] | THE MODERN LIBRARY [wide red band].
Rear Panel: [wide red band] This Coupon Will Bring Your Choice | [in italic] of any of these | 225 MODERN LIBRARY TITLES | [narrow red band] | | [enclosed within dashed lines] multi-line Order Form | [vertically up left side of form] CUT OUT ALONG DOTTED LINES | [narrow red line] | THE MODERN LIBRARY INC., NEW YORK | [in italic] In Canada THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. Toronto | [wide red band].
Front Flap: [wide red band] | MODERN LIBRARY BOOKS | 95 CENTS A COPY | (ONE DOLLAR IN CANADA) | [narrow red band] | BEYOND LIFE | [in italic] By James Branch Cabell | 17 lines of advertising material | [device of four stars | 4 lines of advertising material | [narrow red band] | [in italic] Look inside jacket [arrow device].
Rear Flap: ON THE INSIDE OF THIS JACKET IS A LIST | ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHORS, OF | ALL THE TITLES IN THE MODERN LIBRARY. | IT IS WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION. | [narrow red band] | 28 lines of advertising material |[narrow red band] |[arrow device] [in italic] Look inside jacket (see image above).
Dust Jacket Inside:
WHICH OF THESE 225 OUTSTANDING BOOKS DO YOU WANT TO READ? | [triple rule] | [vertically up the left side of the page The Convenient Coupon on The Other Side Brings You | Your Choice of These Books | [a vertical line] | 6 column listing of titles in The Modern Library; central 2 columns are bisected by a single rule, with listing of 12 Modern Library Giant titles below | [a vertical line] [vertically down the right side of the page] This is a Complete List of Modern Library Books (see image above).
Notes:
For an explanation of the terms used on this page that are specific to The Modern Library, see the Cabell in The Modern Library page.
