James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE HIGH PLACE: A Comedy of Disenchantment
Hall Code |
Description |
HP-B1 |
Boni-Books Edition 1931 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [star device] BONIBOOKS [star device] | [triple rule] | THE HIGH PLACE | [in italic] A Comedy of Disenchantment | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [star device] || [in italic] "Build on high place for Chemosh, the | abomination of Moab, and for horned | Ashtoreth, the abomination of Zidon, | and for Moloch, the abomination of | the children of Ammon." | [Bonibooks device of a man reading, by Rockwell Kent] | [triple rule] | [star device] ALBERT & CHARLES BONI [star device] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | THE HIGH PLACE | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, n.d. (1931)
Collation:
Crown octavo [21 cm. (8¼ in.) x 14.3 cm. (5⅝ in.)]; Pp. viii + 312; (i) half-title (verso blank); (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 (ii), (2), (94), (96), (216), and (218) are blank.
Binding:
Purple cloth; silver lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed. Spine: [double rule] | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [two triple rules] | THE HIGH PLACE | [five triple rules] | [rule] | BONIBOOKS | [double rule]. Front cover: [double rule] | THE HIGH PLACE • JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Bonibooks device of a man reading, by Rockwell Kent] | [rule] | [double rule] (see image above).
Dedication:
To | ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL III | [in italic] this book, where so much more is due. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper; green panels and black lettering and decorations on spine, front and rear panels; lettering on flaps in blue (see image above).
Spine: [green bar] | THE HIGH PLACE | [green bar] | JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [green bar] | BONIBOOKS | [green bar]
Front panel: [green bar] | THE HIGH PLACE | [green bar] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [illustration in black and white] | [green bar] | BONIBOOKS | [green bar]
Rear panel: [green bar] | THE HIGH PLACE | [green bar] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [10-line blurb] | [green bar] | BONIBOOKS | [green bar]
Front flap: [flush right] $1.00 | BONIBOOKS IN CLOTH | [12-line blurb] | [list of 15 titles]
Rear flap: FROM THE FALL LIST OF | ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI | [advertisements for five titles]
Notes:
The text is printed from plates of the 5th Kalki printing, HP-A5 (K).
