James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE HIGH PLACE: A Comedy of Disenchantment
Hall Code |
Description |
HP-A5 (K) |
Fifth Printing 1928 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE | HIGH PLACE | [in italic] A Comedy of Disenchantment | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | "GUILD AN HIGH PLACE FOR CHEMOSH, THE ABOM- | INATION OF MOAB, AND FOR HORNED ASHTORETH, THE | ABOMINATION OF ZIDON, AND FOR MOLOCH, THE | ABOMINATION OF THE CHILDERN OF AMMON." | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1928 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PUBLISHED, NOVEMBER, 1923 | [in italic] Fifth Printing, November, 1928 | THE HIGH P[LACE | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1928
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅞ in.) x 14 cm. (5½ in.)]; Pp. viii + 312; (i) half-title; (ii) BOOKS BY MR. CABELL; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); xvii-xviii Contents; (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-312 text. Pages (1), (95), and (217) are fly-titles. Pages (2), (94), (96), (216), and (218) are blank.
Binding:
Kalki binding: brick red cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE | HIGH | PLACE | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).
Dedication:
To | ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL III | [in italic] this book, where so much more is due. (see image above).
Dust jacket / Box:
White paper, black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: THE | HIGH | PLACE | [double rule] | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in italic] Fifth | Printing | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | McBRIDE
Front panel: THE | HIGH PLACE | [in italic] A Comedy of Disenchantment | By JAME BRANCH CABELL | [21-line blurb in three paragraphs] | [double rule] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Publishers : SEVEN WEST SIXTEENTH STREET : NEW YORK
Rear panel: THE KALKI EDITION OF THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [decorated rule] | [list of 17 Cabell titles published in the Kalki Edition] | [in italic] Each, Cloth, $2.50 net | [decorated rule] | [in italic] Robert M. McBride & Company | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Front flap: [flush right] Net $2.50 | [rule] | THE | [in italic] Storisende Edition | OF THE WORKS OF | [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [31-line blurb for the Storisende Edition in three paragraphs | [in italic] Apply to your bookseller for further information | concerning the Storisende Edition. | [double rule] | CHRONOLOGY | [device] | [list of the first three titles on the Storisende Edition, with dates of issue] | [in italic] (Continued on back flap of this jacket)
Rear flap: CHRONOLOGY | [in italic] (Continued from front flap) | [device] | [list of the remaining fifteen volumes of the Storisende Edition, with dates of issue] | [double rule] | [in italic] Apply to your bookseller for further information | concerning the Storisende Edition.
