James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography

THE HIGH PLACE: A Comedy of Disenchantment

Hall Code
Description
HP-C1a (E)
First English Edition, Variant Binding 1923

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: THE HIGH PLACE | [in italic] A COMEDY OF DISENCHANTMENT | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [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." | LONDON | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED (see image above).

Title page verso: FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1923 | [rule] | [in italic] Made and Printed in Great Britain by | Miller Son & Compy., Fakenham and London. (see image above).

Publication:

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923

Collation:

Crown octavo [18.9 cm. (7 7/16 in.) x 13.3 cm. (5 ¼ in.)]; Pp. vi + 310 + 6 pp. advertisements not counted in in pagination; (i) half-title; (ii) BY THE SAME AUTHOR; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v)-(vi) Contents; 1 fly-title (verso blank); 3-309 text (verso blank); 6 pp. of advertisements. Pages 1, 93, and 213 are fly-titles. Pages (2), (94), (214), and (310) are blank.

Binding:

Orange cloth; black decorations and lettering on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed and stained black, else untrimmed. Spine: [triple decorated rule on black field] THE HIGH | PLACE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [triple decorated rule on black field]. Front cover: [all within triple decorated ruled boxes on black field] THE HIGH PLACE | JAMES | BRANCH CABELL (see image above).

Dedication:

Originally dedicated to Robert Gamble Cabell III, but the dedication was omitted in this edition.

Dust jacket:

White paper, color illustration by Frank C. Pápe on front panel, remaining panels lettered in black (see image above).

Spine: THE | HIGH | PLACE | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | Author of | "JURGEN" etc. | 7/6 | NET | THE | BODLEY | HEAD

Front panel: [entire panel is a color illustration by Frank C. Pápe, lettering is part of illustration] [in red at top of panel] THE | HIGH PLACE | [in blue at base of panel] JAMES BRANCH | [blue and red device] CABELL [blue and red device] | [red rule]

Rear panel: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] Some Recent and Forthcoming Books | [rule] | [advertisements for nine volumes published by Lane] | [rule] | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD., VIGO ST., W. 1

Front flap: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [advertisements for two novels published by Lane] |[rule] | JOHN LANE | The Bodley Head Ltd.

Rear flap: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [advertisements for two novels published by Lane] | [rule] | JOHN LANE | The Bodley Head Ltd.