James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
DOMNEI: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
[bound with]
THE MUSIC FROM BEHIND THE MOON: Another Comedy of Woman-Worship
Hall Code |
Description |
Dom-C1 (S) |
Storisende Edition 1928 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [wide spaced double rule] | [in red italic] | Domnei · TheMusic | from Behind the Moon | Two Comedies of Woman-Worship | [rule] BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK · · · · MCMXXVIII | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1926, 1928 BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1928
Collation:
Medium octavo [23.5 cm. (9¼ in.) x 15.9 cm (6¼ in.)]; xxxiv + 294 pp.; (i) blank; (ii) limitation; (iii) half-title; (iv) quotation; (v) title page; (vi) publication data; vii-xv Author's Note (signed by the author, verso blank); xvii-xviii Contents, Domnei; xix-xx Contents, The Music from Behind the Moon; (xxi) half-title, Domnei (verso blank); (xxiii) dedication, Domnei (verso blank); (xxv) quotation (verso blank); (xxvii) fly-title, Critical Comment (verso blank); xxix-xxxi text of Critical Comment (verso blank); (xxxiii) The Argument (verso blank); (1) fly-title, PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-226 text of Domnei; (227) fly-title The Afterword (verso blank); 229-235 text of The Afterword (verso blank); (237) fly-title, Bibliography; (238) quotation; 239-242 Bibliography; (243) half-title, The Music from Behind the Moon (verso blank); (245) dedication, The Music from Behind the Moon (verso blank); 247 Editorial Note (verso blank); (249) fly-title, PART ONE (verso blank); 251-288 text of The Music from Behind the Moon; (289) fly-title, Bibliography; (290) quotation; 291 Bibliography (verso blank); (293) Publisher's colophon (verso blank). Pages (xxiii), (1), (9), (15), (16), (27), (35), (41), (47), (55), (61), (69), (77), (83), (89), (95), (105), (113), (119), (129), (135), (143), (149), (157), (165), (175), (181), (189), (195), (201), (209), (217), (227), (237), (249), and (289) are fly-titles. Pages (xii), (xviii), (xx), (xxii), (xxiv), (xxviii), (xxx), (10), (14), (16), (26), (28), (36), (42), (46), (48), (56), (62), (68), (70), (76), (78), (82), (84), (88), (90), (96), (104), (106), (114), (118), (120), (128), (130), (134), (136), (142), (144), (150), (158), (164), (166), (176), (180), (182), (188), (190), (196), (200), (202), (208), (210), (216), (218), (228), (236), (244), (246), (248), (250), and (292) are blank.
Binding:
Dark green cloth; gilt decorations and lettering on spine; top edges trimmed and gilded, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: [double rule] | THE WORKS | OF | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | IV | DOMNEI | [rule] | THE MUSIC | FROM | BEHIND | THE MOON | McBRIDE | [double rule]. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single line blind ruled box] [centered Kalki device in blind, enclosed in a double ruled circle in blind].
Limitation:
OF THIS fourth volume of the Storisende | Edition of the works of JAMES BRANCH | CABELL fifteen hundred and ninety copies | have been printed, of which fifteen hundred | and fifty are for sale in the United States and | England | [in italic] This copy is number [handwritten in red] 307 (see image above).
Dedications:
Domnei: [in italic] To | SARAH READ McADAMS | IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION (see image above).
The Music from Behind the Moon: [in italic] For | CARL VAN VECHTEN | Whatever [in italic] hereinafter | he may like (see image above).
(see image above).
Colophon:
This fourth volume of the Storisende Edition of the | works of JAMES BRANCH CABELL, containing DOMNEI | ( first published in September, 1913 ) and THE MUSIC | FROM BEHIND THE MOON ( first published in Sep- | tember, 1926 ), was designed by William Dana Orcutt | and printed and bound at The Plimpton Press, Nor- | wood, Massachusetts. It was completed in February, | 1928, after which the type was destroyed. Issued in | March, 1928, by Robert M. McBride & Company, | New York. (see image above).
Dust jacket / Box:
Individual volumes of the Storisende Edition were not issued in dust jackets. Instead, each was wrapped in tissue and sealed. Early volumes in this set were sealed with adhesive paper dots. Later volumes were simply sealed with adhesive tape. Slipcases were provided for each group of three volumes issued together. The slipcases were sturdy cardboard covered in forest green paper, each with a paper label (see image of label above). For more information and photos, see the page for The Works of James Branch Cabell.
Notes:
This is Volume IV of the Storisende Edition of the Works of James Branch Cabell.
