James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SOMETHING ABOUT EVE: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves
Hall Code |
Description |
Eve-D2 (P) |
English Illustrated Edition 1927 [1929] |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: SOMETHING ABOUT EVE | [in italic] A Comedy of Fig-leaves | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | [in italic] " I was afraid, because I was | naked: and I hid myself " | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).
Title page verso: FIRST PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1927 | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., n.d. (1929)
Collation:
Small royal octavo [24.3 cm. (9 9/16 in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½ in.)]; 1 blank leaf + xxiv + 376 pp.; (not counted in pagination) blank leaf; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS BY MR. CABELL; (not counted in pagination) recto blank, verso frontispiece; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-xvi introduction, A LITTLE MORE ABOUT EVE; xvii-xix CONTENTS (verso blank); xxi ILLUSTRATIONS (verso blank); (xxiii) THE ARGUMENT OF THIS COMEDY (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-376 text. Pages (1), (33), (51), (79), (119), (163), (191), (223), (255), (291), (339), and (355) are fly-titles. Pages (vi), (xx), (xxii), are (xxiv) are blank. Tipped-in illustrations face pages (iii), (14), (48), (76), (128), (188), (220), (252), (286), (314), (342), and (362). All tipped-in illustrations including the frontispiece are protected by unmarked tissue guards.
Binding:
Black cloth; gilt lettering on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE | JAMES BRANCH | [device] CABELL [device] | ILLVSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [vignette device] | [at base of spine] THE | BODLEY HEAD. Front cover: SOMETHING ABOUT EVE | BY · JAMES BRANCH CABELL [device] | ILLVSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | [ centered illustration] | [vignette in lower right] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Out of this silvery mistiness came a crowned woman [drawing by Frank Papé] (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] To | ELLEN GLASGOW | —very naturally—this book which | commemorates the intelligence | of women (see image above).
Endpapers:
Black and white full spread illustrations by Frank Papé (see image above).
Dust jacket / Box:
Black paper, green lettering and decorations on spine and front panel, rear panel and flaps are blank (see image above).
Spine: SOMETHING | ABOUT EVE | JAMES BRANCH | [device] CABELL [device] | ILLVSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [vignette device] | [in italic] 25/- | NET | [at base of spine] THE | BODLEY HEAD
Front panel: SOMETHING ABOUT EVE | BY · JAMES BRANCH CABELL [device] | ILLVSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | [ centered illustration] | [vignette in lower right]
Notes:
Issued from imported sheets.
