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 | 1921 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | [in italic] Second Printing, May, 1916 | Third Printing, March, 1920 | Fourth Printing, March, 1921 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [rule] | Published October, 1915 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., March, 1921

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅝ 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 (11), (45), (79), (115), (163), (191), (241), (273), (319), and (353) are fly-titles; pages (6), (8), (10), (78), (114), (240), and (272) are blank.

Binding:

Kalki binding: red brick cloth, gilt lettering and decorations of spine and front cover, top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE RIVET | IN | GRAND- | FATHER'S | NECK | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device at lower right] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL | [14 line dedicatory verse in two stanzas] (see image above).

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.