James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE EAGLE'S SHADOW: A Comedy of Purse-Strings
Hall Code |
Description |
Eag-D1 (S) |
Storisende Edition 1929 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [wide spaced double rule] | [in red italic] | The Eagle's Shadow | A Comedy of Purse-Strings | [rule] BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK · · · · MCMXXIX | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1923, 1929, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., September, 1929
Collation:
Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼ in.) x 15.9 cm (6¼ in.)]; xxiv + 286 pp.; (i) blank; (ii) limitation; (iii) series title / half-title; (iv) quotation; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; (vii) dedication (verso blank); ix-xix Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); xxi-xxiii Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-283 text (verso blank); (285) Colophon (verso blank). Pages (1), (63), (103), (143), (191), (215), and (249) are fly-titles. Pages (i), (viii), (xx), (xxiv), (142), (248), (284), (286) are blank.
Binding:
Dark green cloth; gilt decorations and lettering on spine; top edges trimmed and gilded, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: [double rule] | THE WORKS | OF | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | XV | THE | EAGLE'S | SHADOW | McBRIDE | [double rule]. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single line blind rule] [centered Kalki device in blind, enclosed in a double ruled circle in blind].
Limitation:
OF THIS fifteenth volume of the Storisende | Edition of the works of JAMES BRANCH | CABELL fifteen hundred and ninety copies | have been printed, of which fifteen hundred | and fifty are for sale in the United States and | England | [in italic] This copy is number [handwritten in red] 82 (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To | MARTHA LOUISE PATTESON BRANCH | IN TRUST THAT THE ENTERPRISE MAY BE JUDGED | LESS BY THE MERITS OF ITS FACTOR | THAN BY THOSE OF ITS PATRON (see image above).
Colophon:
This fifteenth volume of the Storisende Edition of | the works of JAMES BRANCH CABELL, containing | THE EAGLE'S SHADOW (first published in October, | 1904), was designed by William Dana Orcutt and | printed and bound at The Plimpton Press, Norwood, | Massachusetts. It was completed in August, 1929, | after which the type was destroyed. Issued in | September, 1929, by Robert M. McBride & Com- | pany, New York. (see image above).
Dust jacket / Box:
Individual volumes of the Storisende Edition were not issued in dust jackets. Instead, each was wrapped in tissue and sealed. Early volumes in this set were sealed with adhesive paper dots. Later volumes were simply sealed with adhesive tape. Slipcases were provided for each group of three volumes issued together. The slipcases were sturdy cardboard covered in forest green paper, each with a paper label (see image of label above). For more information and photos, see the page for The Works of James Branch Cabell.
Notes:
This is Volume XV of the Storisende Edition of the Works of James Branch Cabell
