James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SOMETHING ABOUT EVE: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves
Hall Code |
Description |
Eve-B1 (E) |
First English Printing 1927 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title 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" | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).
Title verso: [in italic] First Published in 1927 | Made and Printed in Great Britain by | Tonbridge Printers Peach Hall Works Tonbridge (see image above).
Publication:
London, John Lane, 1927.
Collation:
Crown octavo [18.9 cm. (7 7/16 in.) x 13.3 cm. (5 ¼ in.)], xii + 372 pp. P. (i) half-title; (ii) Books by the Same Author; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-ix Contents (verso blank); (xi) The Argument of this Comedy: sonnet of 14 lines (verso blank);(1) fly-title; (2) two line epithet; 3-364 text; (365-372) advertisements. Pp. (1), (31), (49); (75); (111); (153); (181); (213); (245); (279); (327); (343); are fly-titles, each with a one or two line epithet on the verso.
Binding:
Red cloth; yellow decorations and lettering on front cover and spine; all edges trimmed. Spine: [triple decorated rule on yellow field] SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [triple decorated rule on yellow field]. Front cover: [all within triple decorated ruled boxes on yellow field] SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To | ELLEN GLASGOW | − very naturally − this book which | commemorates the intelligence | of women (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper with black and red text; color illustration by John Austen on front panel (see image above).
Spine: [in black] SOMETHING | ABOUT | EVE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | THE | BODLEY | HEAD
Front panel: [quadruple rule, top to bottom: black, green, orange, yellow] | [within illustration] [fig leaf device in green] [in black] SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE [fig leaf device in green] | A Comedy | of Fig-leaves | [below illustration; in red] by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [quadruple rule, top to bottom: black, green, orange, yellow]
Rear panel: [all in black; all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in italic] BOOKS BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | JURGEN | four line blurb | FIGURES OF EARTH | eight line blurb | THE HIGH PLACE | three line blurb | THE CORDS OF VANITY | three line blurb | THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK | four line blurb | THE CREAM OF THE JEST | eight line blurb | BEYOND LIFE. A Book of Essays | single line blurb | [rule] | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., VIGO ST., W. 1
Front flap: [all in black; all enclosed in a single ruled box] SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE | [in italic] A Comedy of Fig- | Leaves | 29 line synopsis in two paragraphs [rule] | JOHN LANE | The Bodley Head Ltd.
Rear flap: [all in black; all enclosed in a single ruled box] [in italic] By the same Author | [rule] | DOMNEI | [in italic] A Comedy of Woman | Worship | By | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | With an Introduction | by | JOSEPH | HERGESHEIMER | 7s. 6d. net. | 19 line synopsis | [rule] | JOHN LANE | The Bodley Head Ltd.
