James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

SOMETHING ABOUT EVE: A Comedy of Fig-leaves

Hall Code
Description
Eve-A1a
First Printing, Limited Edition 1927

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: SOMETHING ABOUT EVE | [in italic] A Comedy of Fig-Leaves | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | "I WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE I WAS | NAKED: AND I HID MYSELF" | [McBride Liberty Bell emblem] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1927 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] Published, September, 1927 | (First Impression) | SOMETHINGABOUT EVE | KALKI EDITION | [in italic] Printed in the United States of America | by the Plimpton Press, Norwood. Mass. (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1927

Collation:

Royal octavo [24.8 cm. (9¾ in.) x 17.1 cm. (6¾ in.); xvi + 364 pp.; (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) blank; (iv) frontispiece, with tissue guard lettered in red: VENERABLE AND SUBTLE ÆSRED; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; (vii) limitation page (verso blank); (ix) dedication (verso blank); (xi)-(xiii) (numbered as vii-ix) CONTENTS (verso blank); (xv) THE ARGUMENT OF THIS COMEDY (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART ONE; 3-364 text. Pages (1), (31), (49, (75), (111), (153), (181), (213), (245), (279), (327), and (343) are fly-titles. Pages (30), (153), (180), (244), (278), (326), and (342) are blank.

Binding:

Half bound with white art vellum spine and corners over green paper boards, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover. Spine: SOMETHING | ABOUT | EVE | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device, centered] (see image above)

Frontispiece:

Photograph of the Bust of Æsred, sculpted by Edmond R. Amateis (see image above).

Limitation:

THE LARGE PAPER EDITION OF SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE CONSISTS OF EIGHT HUNDRED | AND FIFTY SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES, | OF WHICH EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY- | ONE ARE FOR SALE | THIS IS COPY [handwritten in red] 541 | [signed by the author] (see image above).

Dedication:

[in italic] To | ELLEN GLASGOW | —very naturally—this book which | commemorates the intelligence | of women (see image above).

Dust jacket / Slipcase:

Issued in an unmarked tissue dust jacket and an unmarked cardboard slipcase covered in green paper (see image above).

Notes:

aesredThe bust of Æsred pictured in the frontispiece now resides in the James Branch Cabell Library at Virginia Commonwealth University, adjacent to the Cabell Room. The photo at left was taken during The Silver Stallion's visit to the library in 2016.