James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SOMETHING ABOUT EVE: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves
DER ZAUBER DER EVA: Eine Komödie der Feigenblätter
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Description |
*Eve-Ger-1 (w) |
German Translation 1988 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [decorated rule] | [enclosed in a single ruled box] DER ZAUBER | DER EVA| [decorated rule] | Ein Komödie der Feigenblätter |[Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: BASTE-LÜBBE-TASCHENBUCH | Fantasy | Band 20105 | Erste Ausflage | © Copyright 1927/29 by James Branch Cabell | Copyright renewed 1954 by James Branch Cabell | All rights reserved | Deutsche Lizenzausgabe 1988 | Bastei-Verlag Gustav H. Lübbe GmbH & Co., Bergish Gladbach | Originaltitel: Something About Eve| Ins Deutsche übertragen von Heiko Langhans | Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen | von Dr. Helmut Pesch | Titelillustration: Greg Hildebrandt | Illustrationen von Johan Peterka | Umschlaggenestaltung: Quadro-Grafik, Bensberg | Satz: Fotosatz Schell, Bad Iburg | Druck und Verarbeitung: | Brodard & Taupin, La Fléche, Frankreiche | Printed in France | ISBN 3-404-20105-1 | Der Preis dieses Bandes versteht sich einschlieffeßich | der gesetzlichen Mehrwertsteuer. (see image above).
Publication:
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany: Bastei-Lübbe, 1988
Collation:
Trade paperback in wraps [17.9 cm. (7 1/16 in.) x 11.1 cm. (4⅜ in.)]. Pp. 304; (1) free endpaper, Bastei-Lübbe castle logo at bottom; (2) frontispiece; (3) title page; (4) publication data; 5-7 Contents; (8)-(9) Map of Poictesme (verso blank); 11-15 author's Vorwort (translated from the Storisende Edition) (verso blank); (17) fly-title; (18) quotation; 19-291 text (verso blank); 293-300 Nachwort; (301)-(304) publisher's advertisements. Pages (17), (39), (53), (73), (101), (132), (153), (177), (201), (227), (263), and (275) are fly titles. Pages (10), (16), (52), (100), (131), (262), (274), and (292) are blank.
Wraps:
Front panel white lettering over illustration by Greg Hildebrandt. Spine and rear panel blue or white lettering over blue background (see image above).
Spine: 20 105 | [rule] | 780 | [lettered up the spine] [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] James Branch Cabell Der Zauber der Eva FANTASY
Front panel: JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [white decorated rule] | [in white, all enclosed in a single red-ruled box over blue ground] DER ZAUBER | DER EVA | [white decorated rule] | Die Chroniken von Poictesme | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo]
Rear panel: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [5-line biography of Mr. Cabell] | [in white, all enclosed in a single red-ruled box over blue ground] DER ZAUBER | DER EVA | [6-line blurb ] | [quote review by Robert E. Howard] | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] Deutsche | Erstveröffentlichung Fantasy | [black lettering, all enclosed in a black, single ruled box, white ground] [prices, ISBN data, bar codes]
Frontispiece:
Above frontispiece: Taschenbücher von JAMES BRANCH CABELL | im BASTE-LÜBBE-Programm: | Die Chroniken von Poictesme | 20 075 Die Legende von Manuel | 20 081 Der silberne Hengst | 20 087 Die schönste aller Frauen | 20 099 Der verwunschene Ort |
Frontispiece: Dom Manuel's Coat of Arms
Subscript: [in italic] >>Ich füchtete mich, | weil ich nackt war, | und darum versteckte ich mich."<< (see image above).
Map of Poictesme:
The map shown here was reprinted in several of Bastei-Lübbe's German translations of works in The Biography of Manuel. It is based on Peter Koch's 1928 Map of Poictesme, Hall G8, and was revised and transliterated into German by Dr. Helmut Pesch. It is signed on the lower left Inv. Peter Koch 28, and on the lower right delin. H. Pesch 85.
Dedication:
Something About Eve was dedicated to Ellen Glasgow. This dedication is not present in this edition.
