James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

THE EAGLE'S SHADOW

Hall Code
Description
Eag-A1e
First Printing, Fifth State 1904

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto:[all in green] THE | EAGLE'S SHADOW | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Illustrated by Will Grefé | Decorated by Blanche Ostertag | device of plants in a heart shaped bed| New York | Doubleday, Page & Company | 1904 (see image above).

Title page verso: [all in green] [device of flowers] Copyright, 1904, by | The Curtis Publishing Company | Copyright, 1904, by | Doubleday, Page & Company | Published, October, 1904 | [in italic] An abridged version of this story appeared serially in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | [in italic] during the summer of 1904. The novel is here given in its entirity | as originally conceived by the author (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, October, 1904.

Collation:

Crown octavo [20.3 cm. (8 in.) x 13.3 cm. (5 ¼ in.)], 3 blank leaves, xii + 258 with tipped-in frontispiece and 7 tipped-in illustrations. Preliminaries printed in green (i) half-title, verso blank; frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication page; (v) dedication, verso blank; (vii-viii) Contents; (ix-x) The Characters; (xi) List of Illustrations, verso blank; (1) sub-title, verso blank; 3-256 text; last leaf blank. Illustrations face pp. 8, 38, 60, 98, 154, 174, and 220.

Binding:

Red cloth: gilt lettering and decoration on spine, white lettering and decoration on front, stamped decoration on front and spine, all edges trimmed. Spine: The | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | CABELL | device of a gilt American eagle and stars in a gilt circle | DOUBLEDAY | PAGE & CO. Front cover: [all enclosed in a blind stamped triple rule] The | EAGLE'S SHADOW | device of an American eagle and stars in a circle | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

The publisher's name at the base of the spine is in a non-serifed typeface, which differs from the earlier printings.

Frontispiece:

Drawing of a woman standing; subscribed "Margaret" (see image above).

The drawing by Will Grefé used as the frontispiece originally appeared in the October 1, 1904, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, as an illustration for the ninth and final installment of the serial version of The Eagle's Shadow. The original caption was ' "i'VE BEEN FOR A DRIVE, BILLY," SHE MENDACIOUSLY INFORMED HIM" (see image above).

Dedication:

[all in green] [device of flowered branch piercing a heart] To | Martha Louise Branch | [in italic] In trust that the enterprise may be judged | less by the merits of its factor than | by the of its patron (see image above).

Martha Louise Patteson Branch (1835 - 1908) was Cabell's grandmother.

Endpapers:

Plain white endpapers (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Not seen.

Notes:

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