James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

FIGURES OF EARTH: A Comedy of Appearances

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FoE-D3 (P)
Third Printing of Illustrated Edition 1927

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: FIGURES OF EARTH | A COMEDY OF APPEARANCES | By JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device] | "Cascun se mir el jove Manuel, | Qu'era del mon lo plus dels pros " | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY| NEW YORK MCMXXVII (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1925, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | FIRST PUBLISHED 1921 | [in italic] First Printing of Illustrated Edition, | December, 1925 | Third Printing, January, 1927 | Printed in the United States of America | Illustrations Printed in Great Britain (see image above).

Publication:

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

Collation:

Medium octavo [24.4 cm. (9⅝ in.) x 16.2 cm. (6⅜ in.)]; xxii + 274 pp.; (i) half-title (verso blank); (leaf not counted in pagination) recto blank, frontispiece verso; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii)-ix A Preface to These Pictures (verso blank); xi-xii Contents; (xiii) List of Illustrations (verso blank); (xv) fly-title, A Foreword (verso blank); xvii-xxi text of Foreword (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART I; (2) quotation; (3)-274 text. Pages (xv), (1), (65), (109), (163), and (221) are fly-titles. Pages (ii), (vi), (x), (xiv), (xvi), (108), (162), and (220) are blank. Illustrations face pp. (iii), 16, 34, 54, 76, 90, 118, 136, 148, 178, 206, and 234.

Binding:

Black cloth, gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed and stained red, else untrimmed. Spine: FIGURES| OF EARTH | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device of two facing dragons] | MC BRIDE. Front cover: [all enclosed in two concentric triple ruled boxes in blind] [illustration of Manuel and Grandfather Death on horseback, enclosed in a single ruled box] | FIGURES OF EARTH | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ (see image above)./.

Frontispiece:

Manuel and Alianora the Unattainable Princess at the pool of Haranton, by Frank Papé (see image above).

Dedication:

TO SIX MOST GALLANT CHAMPIONS IS DEDI- | CATED THIS HISTORY OF A CHAMPION: LESS | TO REPAY THAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE LARGE | DEBTS TO EACH OF THEM, COLLECTIVELY | AT OUTSET, AS THEREAFTER SERIATIM (see image above).

There are additional dedications for each of the six books on the Fly-titles.

Endpapers:

Full spread illustration of Manuel, his first Figure of Earth, and Miramon Lluagor at the pool of Haranton, by Frank Papé (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Grey paper, red lettering and decorations (see image above).

Spine: FIGURES| OF EARTH | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ | [device of two facing dragons] | Mc BRIDE

Front panel: [all enclosed in two concentric triple ruled boxes] [illustration of Manuel and Grandfather Death on horseback, enclosed in a single ruled box] | FIGURES OF EARTH | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK C. PAPÉ | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers New York

Rear panel: THE KALKI EDITION OF THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [decorated rule] | [list of 16 titles] | [in italic] Each, Cloth, $2.50 net | [decorated rule] | [in decorative script] Robert M. McBride & Company | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Front flap: [flush right, in italic] $5.00 net | [rule] | FIGURES of EARTH | [20-line blurb] | [device] | [quotation from review] | [device] | ILLUSTRATED EDITION | WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE DRAW- | INGS AND MANY HEAD AND TAIL | PIECES BY | FRANK C. PAPÉ

Rear flap: blank