Full Title:

Title page recto: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [decorated rule] | [enclosed in a single ruled box] DER | VERWUNSCHENE | ORT | [decorated rule] | Ein Komödie der Entzauberung | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] (see image above).

Title page verso: [rule] BASTE-LÜBBE-TASCHENBUCH | Fantasy | Band 20 099| Mit Innenillustrationen von Johann Peterka | | © Copyright 1923/28 by James Branch Cabell, | renewed, 1950 by James Branch Cabell | All rights reserved | Deutsche Lizenzausgabe 1987 | Bastei-Verlag Gustav H. Lübbe GmbH & Co., Bergish Gladbach | Originaltitel: THE HIGH PLACE | Ins Deutsche übertragen von Dr. Helmut Pesch | Titelillustration: Victoria Poyser | Umschlaggenestaltung: Quadro-Grafik, Bensberg |Druck und Verarbeitung: | Brodard & Taupin, La Flèche, Frankreich | Printed in France | ISBN 3-404-20099-3 | Der Preis dieses Bandes versteht sich einschlieffeßich | der gesetzlichen Mehrwertsteuer. (see image above).

Publication:

Bergisch Gladbach, Germany: Bastei-Lübbe, 1987

Collation:

Trade paperback in wraps [18.1 cm. (7⅛ in.) x 11.1 cm. (4⅜ in.)]. Pp. 256; (1) free endpaper, Bastei-Lübbe castle logo at bottom; (2) frontispiece; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) illustration; (6)-(7) Inhalt; (8)-(9) Map of Poictesme; (10)-13 Vorwort (translated from the Storisende Edition, verso blank); (15) illustration; (16) fly-title; 17-(254) text; (255)-(256) publisher's advertisements. Pages (16), (84), and (174) are fly titles. Pages (5), (15), (83), (173), and (243) are illustrations. Pages (14), (172), and (242) are blank.

Wraps:

Front panel white lettering over illustration by Victoria Poyser. Spine and rear panel blue lettering over blue background (see image above).

Spine: 20 099 | [rule] |780 | [lettered up the spine] [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo] James Branch Cabell Der verwunschene Ort FANTASY

Front panel: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [white decorated rule] | [in white outlined in red, all enclosed in a single red-ruled box over blue ground] DER | VERWUNSCHENE | ORT | [white decorated rule] | Die Chroniken von Poictesme | [Bastei-Lübbe castle logo]

Rear panel: JAMES BRANCH | CABELL | [6-line biography of Mr. Cabell] | [in white outlined in red, all enclosed in a single red-ruled box over blue ground] DER | VERWUNSCHENE | ORT | [7-line blurb] | [quotes from two reviews] | [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:

Superscript: Taschenbücher von JAMES BRANCH CABELL | im BASTE-LÜBBE-Programm: | Die Chroniken von Poictesme: | 20 075 Die Legende von Poictesme | 20 081 Der silberne Hengst | 20 087 Die schönste aller Frauen |

Dom Manuel's Coat of Arms

Subscript: [in italic] >>Baut eine hohe Stätte für Kamos, | den Götzen von Moab, | und für die gehörnte Asthoreth, | den Götzen von Sidon, | und für Moloch, | den Götzen der Kinder Ammons.<< (see image above).

Dedication:

The High Place was dedicated to Robert Gamble Cabell III, although the dedication does not appear in this edition.

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.