James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK: A Comedy of Limitations
Hall Code |
Description |
Riv-A2 |
Second Printing 1916 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: THE RIVET | IN GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | A Comedy of Limitations | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "To this new South, who values her high | past, in chief, as fit foundation of that edifice | whereon she labors day by day, and with | augmenting strokes." | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1915 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] SECOND PRINTING, May, 1916 | [line] | Published October, 1915 (see image above).
Publication:
New York:Robert M. McBride & Co., May, 1916.
Collation:
Crown octavo [20 cm. (7 ⅞ in.) x 12.7 cm. (5 in.)]; pp. 368 (first 12 un-numbered); (1) half title; (2) Books by Mr. Cabell; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) Dedication (verso blank); (7) Contents (verso blank); (9) Note (verso blank); (11) fly-title; (12) sonnet, Paul Verville, Nascitur (JBC); 13-368 text. Pages (1), (45), (79), (115), (163), (191), (241), (273), (319), and (353) are fly-titles; pages (78), (114), (240), and (272) are blank.
Binding:
Red-brown cloth; gilt lettering and decorations; all edges trimmed. Spine: THE RIVET | IN | GRAND- | FATHERS | NECK | [line] | CABELL | Mc BRIDE. Front cover: [completely enclosed in a gilt box] THE RIVET IN | GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | [device of stylized seated Chinese figure] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL | [14 line dedicatory verse in two stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Not seen, but may have been the same as the jacket for the first printing, Riv-A1.
Notes:
The quotation on the title page was adapted from "The New Virginia," by James Branch Cabell, originally published in Julia Wyatt Bullard's Jamestown Tributes and Toasts, 1907, Hall A2.
